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                                           Happy New Year http://youtu.be/pbpF1WyBaC0 Have a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous 2015

Do you use Skype ? If you don’t like the ads, My recent post in the Avast Support Forum might help you fix this annoyance: https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=163498.msg1166159#msg1166159

The Christmas Season is the nicest time of the year. It's the time when we think of friends far and near. A time to reflect of all that's happened during the past year and hope we can do things as well or better next year. A time to give thanks to the Lord up above. A time to think about all those we love. A time also to think about giving back to those in need some of the excess we really don't need. This is the season for giving and sharing it's one way to show love for your fellow man by caring. You're never taller than when you stoop to help someone in need. So step up and do that good deed. Make next year be the best year of your life and share the joy with a friend, a neighbor, a relative and your partner in life. Merry Christmas and a Happy 2015 to everyone.

As more and more devices are added to your Home Network, securing that Network becomes increasingly important. It's nice to know that even the free version of Avast includes Home Network Security (HNS) You can run a Home Network Security Scan as one of the many scans available within the scan options in Avast . The results may surprise you. Any vulnerability spotted and fixed will prevent access to your home network by the cyber crooks. This is especially important during the Holiday Season. The Holiday Season is a time for us to be happy, not a time for a Cyber crook to steal your information or identity. Here is a little video that shows you just how easy it is to run one of these scans. Vulnerabilities that may be found can be easily fixed using the guide posted by Lisandro Carmona on the Avast blog: https://blog.avast.com/2014/11/04/avast-2015-new-feature-home-network-security-scanning/ I hope your scan results are the same as mine: If you need simple step by step instru...

If you're game enough to test Windows 10, then you might also like it to be protected  by Avast 2015.

49 Members and Guests of the Club attended this mornings presentation. An extensive Q&A session also followed this presentation. There are already many converts to Avast in this club. Please click here to see all the pictures.

35 Members of the Club attended this afternoons presentation. The presentation was followed by a very extensive Q&A session. Please click here to view all pictures.

Crap happens. This makes recovery easy!

This was not a computer club but, they all use computers and, over 100 members attended this very lively meeting.  Please click here to see all of the pictures.   I was made an honorary member of Company A

If you're running Windows 10, you can now add Avast as your Antivirus protection. Here are the directions.

27 Members of the Lakes at Leesburg Computer & Technology Club in Leesburg FL attended this morning presentation on " Security Is Everyones Business " Please click here to view all the pictures

This should answer your question why this feature needed to be removed.

A rule every computer user needs to learn: It might just fix your problem. (And save you a lot of money) That also goes for your router when you're having internet problems! If that doesn't cure what ails you, come back here and ask for specific help. Don't forget to give us as much information as possible. It's your computer and we aren't mind readers. One last note of advice. There are some updates that require a total shutdown  of your system and then  a restart in order for the changes to drivers to take effect. (Originally posted on the Avast Support Forum at: Interesting Software and System News  

If you need to access Avast's Reports and/or Scan Logs regularly, this will make it simple.

                                Installing the new Avast 2015     Click here for step by step instruction to Successfully install Avast.

A small excerpt from my remote presentation for the members of the Komputer Enthusiasts of Greater Seattle, WA (http://www.kegs.org/)

Please click here to see all of the pictures You can access their website at: http://dma1.org/ It was certainly easy to get to Dayton, OH tonight all the way from Los Lunas, NM Via Skype Airlines. The price was also right.

Another new feature coming in avast! 2015!

Microsoft exec: 'Windows 9' to be announced next week A personal Observation: A new release of the Windows operating system has always brought with it a new learning curve. Some folks have forgotten that. Some have also forgotten that learning new things is what keeps your mind active and your body young. Something that's more important for some of us than others. For those of us that embraced and have worked with Windows 8 since it's early beta days, we always knew it was a much better operating system that the prior ones. It's faster, more secure and, more compatible with older software than it's predecessors. For those that missed the traditional start menu, there had always been a third party program that fixed that oversight from Microsoft. Adding  ClassicShell  http://www.classicshell.net/ to the mix, gave you back the start button and added the ability to bypass the metro apps screen entirely. We are about to embark on the next release of Windows. This ...

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If you're using avast! (and why wouldn't you?) simply download   this file  to a folder you can find. Double click on the file after the download finishes and,  avast! will talk like a pirate. Have Fun, be free and, stay safe!

Please click here to see all the pictures You can access their website at: https://sites.google.com/site/lvcgsite/Home

Please click here to view all of the pictures. The clubs website is: http://www.nasac.org/

Please click here to view all the pictures The clubs website is: http://www.lccug.com/

                This isn't posted for political reasons but to honor those that gave and lost their lives on 9/11/2001 If it bothers you, please don't watch and please, don't post negative comments. Thanks

Please click here or on the image to see all of the pictures. Here is the clubs website for any one living in the area: http://www.bcug.com/index.html

Just made available by Avast. See what's new. Become a beta tester!

Please click here to see all the pictures taken Here are the links to the clubs websites: Rockland PC Users Group - http://rpcug.com Westchester PC Users Group - http://www.wpcug.org

Please click here to view all the pictures taken last night. Last night I had the pleasure of doing a presentation for the members and guests of the Danbury Area Computer Society (DACS) at the Danbury Hospital in Danbury CT.

The rest of the pictures are available here . Last night I had the pleasure to address the members of the ICON PC Users Group . The presentation was followed by a Q&A Session which spilled over to the Dinner which some of the members and I shared at the Peter Pan Diner in Brentwood NY.

When your system doesn't boot, this could save your butt!

        The World Cup may be over but, the Scams continue.

Last nights presentation for the PC Community in Hayward CA, was done remotely for a small Audience (15). Remote presentations for any audience is harder than a live presentation. When the internet connection at the remote site is challenged, it makes for a long and interesting evening. Since the members of the club didn't want to give up, neither would I. It took over 2 1/2 hrs. to finish a presentation that normally takes an hour. The club members still enjoyed the knowledge they gained from the presentation and are anxiously waiting for the follow up information I always sent out. It's always nice when what looked like a certain disaster still turns out to be a huge success.

Please click here to see the pictures You can access their website at: http://ccomputerclass.org/

On 6/10/2014 I had the pleasure of doing a remote presentation for the 20 Members of the Rochester Computer Society who attended the meeting that evening. Please click here to view all the pictures taken. Arpad Kovacs, better known as “podman”, was good enough to take these pictures for me. (Thanks Arpad) Even though I prefer to do  presentations in person, it isn’t  always possible and doing it remotely makes the information available even to the most remote clubs. It also makes presentations available to smaller clubs. You can access the clubs website at: http://www.rcsi.org/

Is your Facebook account really as secure as it should be ?

Please click here to view the pictures. Their website is available at: http://www.oceanhillscomputerclub.net

Click here to see the pictures. You can reach their website for further information at: http://www.tugnet.org/

Please click here to view the pictures. You can reach their website at: http://ccmv.net/ If you live in the area, why not become a member. The price is certainly right!

Please click here to view the pictures. You can access their website at: http://www.cipcug.org/

Please click here to see the pictures. You can access the clubs website at: http://www.mpcug.net/

Please Click here to see the pictures. You can visit the Clubs website at: http://www.cscclub.org/

Please click here to view all the photos. You can access the Clubs website at: www.computerclubatsunlakes.org/

Please click here to view all the pictures. You can access the club's website at: http://www.palmia.org/

Please click here to see all the pictures. You can access their website at: http://friendsofoasis.org/clubs/computer-friends.html

Please click here to view all of the pictures. You can access their website at: http://www.thepcclub.org/

Please click here to view all the pictures. Their website is available at: http://www.windowsusers.org/

Please click here to view all the pictures. You can visit their website for more information about the club at: http://www.lbibmug.org/

Please click here to see all of the pictures. Although the club still has a website , they no longer have anyone to maintain it.                                          Any volunteers ?

Please click here to view the pictures The Clubs website and further information is available at: http://www.uchug.org/

                     Please click here to view all the pictures You can access the clubs website at: http://gsbug.apcug.org/

To see all of the pictures, please click here . 27 Members of the North Orange Computer Club attended yesterdays presentation.

Click here to view all of the pictures You'll find the clubs website at: http://scgsd.org/welcome/

Click here to see all of the pictures. You'll find more information about this club at: http://www.bigbearcc.org/ The also have an interesting newsletter: http://www.bigbearcc.org/newsletter.html

There is a new program version available and I suggest that you update to the latest release.

How to get your data from Windows XP to a new PC Remember that avast! Antivirus still protects your Windows XP system if you’ve decided to keep it.

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If you've just done an avast! Program update and see this notice, here's a quick fix.

Yesterday evening I had the pleasure of spending a little over an hour with the members of The WNY Computer Society . They were in Buffalo NY, I was in Meadow Lake NM and Skype made this remote presentation possible. The nice thing about doing a remote presentation is that the trip home is very fast. The bad thing is that the people interaction usually a big part of the presentation is totally missing. Thanks Jack Berlin of the WNY Computer Society for inviting me.