What happened?
This is probably the most common problem we see in our shop today. One of the problems is caused by installing/uninstalling programs. Sometimes, one program conflicts with another. When you try to remove it, some of the fragments remain in your Windows registry and can cause problems. More commonly these days are the villains lurking out there on the World Wide Web. Viruses, trojans, worms, spyware, malware, browser helper objects, malicious scripts, etc. I won’t get into a detailed discussion here of what each one of these things is and what they do. The important thing for the average home computer user to know is that they are all bad and are probably causing one or more of the problems listed above. Most, if not all of them are loaded onto your computer with out your knowledge or permission. Many of them have the ultimate goal of selling you something. A few of them are just the result of some incredibly talented sicko trying to harm other people’s computers. Many of them, in thems
A computer in a University research center was subject to a computer intrusion. Analysis of the intrusion indicates it was an automated attack designed to obtain a place to store pirated video files for subsequent distribution. There is no evidence that anyone ever gained access to any information on the computer.
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I remember one day playing guitar with a friend in his basement and while jamming, his Telecaster guitar became intermittent. We started wiggling the cord, tapping the amp, and finally realized the problem came from the guitar. When we tapped the bridge pickup we could hear it go off and on. Realizing his pickup was dying I could see him breaking into a sweat. When I examined the pickup I found that the pole (magnet rod) was rusted and crusty. We carefully removed the waxed string used to protect the coil to determine whether the coil itself was damaged. We did not see any problem. We then decided to remove the magnet wire a turn at a time. We used a monofilament fishing wire bobbin we found in my Dad s fishing box. We removed thousands of turns and found no breaks or other problems. As we got near the end we discovered bits of oxide dust (or rust) falling from one of the poles. The pole piece (magnet rod of Alnico) was actually rusting and had broken down the enameled insulation of th
