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What is RaveMonE.exe??
RavoMonE.exe is a backdoor.trojan that can be found on the internet that possesses the ability to download Spyware/Adware in the background of your system. It also causes your computer to slow down terribly.
How do I see if I have RavMonE.exe??
Simply open your task manager, Go to the second tab call processes and look for the
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As any World Of Warcraft player knows, Wednesday is patch-day. Generally the servers are not accessible from the outside world. During that time Blizzard will run routine maintenance or perform critical updates. Today was special though, it was the release of patch 3.2. There is so much good that came from this, so many surprises, so many good many rumours arising from what went on in the PTR’s… Well one thing that got allot of us by surprise – the user interface problem on computers running the Intel 965 Mobile Chipset.
This had caught me completely off guard as never before has a WoW update clashed so severely with a driver. I personally use a Dell Inspiron 1525. It is far from a gaming laptop, but it gets the job done and allows for a bit of Warcraft or maybe a quick mission on Swat. This particular notebook, as well as many others is shipped with the Intel chipset that had issues.
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There is nothing more annoying than things not working as they should, when you need them to. Often it will happen that when you NEED something to work, that is when all seems to hit the fan. One of our latest issues would be while trying to open ini files in Notepad, we get the error “Filename, directory name or volume label syntax is incorrect”. Lovely, what now?
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If you are experiencing weird issues after upgrading your hardware, or you’ve just upgraded to the latest hardware device and aren’t seeing the performance you’d like, you might want to remove the old drivers which are still installed for the old hardware, even though you can’t normally see them in device manager.
What you have to do is set a less-known flag to allow you to see non-present devices, and then launch device manager. You’ll then see the old devices in the list, and can uninstall the drivers for them.
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A common security concern at organizations is allowing users to plug in a USB flash drive, because they could so easily copy corporate data.
Since Windows XP SP2, you can disable writing to USB devices altogether using a simple registry hack.
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