August
12
2009
8:14 pm

Software

AV Care Nightmare

Posted by Melo

After spending an entire day trying to remove this dreadful program called AV Care without success I finally decided that it would be much easier to just format my hard drive instead and it was. I did not know what AV Care was or how it got installed but my wife was using my computer that day. My guess is, she accidentally clicked something and installed the program, AV Care, without her knowing it. I later found out about it when, after booting the computer, the AV Care interface suddenly appeared and started scanning for viruses and other threats. It then reported that my computer was infected with all sorts of stuff and to remove them I need to pay for the software which, of course, I did not do.

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AV Care was not unfamiliar to me and, thanks to Google,  I found out that it was a fake anti-virus program that tricks people in buying it by presenting its victim with a bogus infection report. Upon learning what AV Care was, I immediately removed it by uninstalling it. Although, the program did uninstall itself it seems that it has already did some damage to my computer like multiple processes of a certain windows application suddenly appeared which greatly slowed down my computer, Spybot – Search and Destroy won’t execute as well as a few other programs and a google installer kept on giving me error messages. [...continue reading AV Care Nightmare]

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August
13
2008
5:43 pm

Software

Convert, Edit, Burn, Rip and More

Posted by Melo

As an online gamer, I love to create simple movies of my characters or avatars in-game (or in-world if it’s in Second Life). For example, in Second Life, I would use Second Life’s built in movie capture feature to save clips of my avatar’s actions and I will then use MovieMaker to piece them all together.

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Once the movie is complete, I would then save it to my computer but the problem is MovieMaker saves its movies in .WMV format. This is fine if you are going to upload it into YouTube but I also want to show my created video in Second Life and to do that I need to upload my video in a format Second Life supports. In other words, I need to convert my video from .WMV format to either .MOV or .MP4 format with a video converter and then upload it to a video hosting/sharing site like blip.tv (so that I could grab the static URL of the video). [...continue reading Convert, Edit, Burn, Rip and More]

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