Cents Pi Copy Right and other Wingding Symbols

Click on the START button and go up or down to PROGRAMS, Go over to ACCESSORIES, over to SYSTEM TOOLS, and over one more time to CHARACTER MAP and click it. When the box opens up click on the °, ¢ or whatever the character is you want, click select, copy. Go to your text, right click the mouse and find the PASTE feature and there you have it. It will go where your cursor line is showing and you can click the mouse and place it anywhere you want. There are all sorts of signs you can do. The default is ARIAL text but click the small arrow opposite the ARIAL word and go to WINGDINGS. There's lots of fun things to copy and paste into letters and WORD.

New Email Address

If you have a new email address, you can go to www.volition.com/returnpath.html Just put your old and new email address and it will be forward to you! 

Antivirus Soft Malware

Antivirus Soft is a Malware.  My hubby's laptop got it Sunday Night.  I worked on it for 5 hours on Sunday night and then again for 6 hours on Monday to rid the laptop of this.  It's similar to Security Tool, but Antivirus Soft tricker  it changes the proxy so you can't download updates even after you shut it down.
Solution as follows:  First turn off the computer, start it back up, at start up go to task manager.  Do this quickly before Antivirus Soft loads or you won't be able to open task manager.  To open task manager hit CTRL, ALT and DELETE all at the same time.  Click on processes.  Then you have to figure out which one is Antivirus Soft.  Mine was urbssftav, look for tav at the ending.  What I did was hit mem usage, this will put the biggest running programs high on the list.  urbssftav was the third on my list.  Click on it to high light and then click end processes.  This will shut it down, but it's not gone.  You need to download, update and run Malwarebytes program, it's free.  Malwarebytes  Ok you might be able to surf and download the program.  But you need to update it to get the spyware off your computer.  Now if you can't download the update this is what you have to do.  On any web page (must be using an Internet Explore page) go to Tools, Internet Options and click on Connections tab, click on ok.  Then on next pop up click on LAN Settings, next pop up uncheck Use a proxy for your LAN, then click ok.  Now you should be able to download the much needed update from Malwarebytes.  After you have updated do a quick scan.  It should find 3 to 5 infects.  Once you have found them, make sure all are check marked and click remove selected.  You are then clean of the malware.  If you can not into task manager or if none of this works restart your computer in safe mode.  To do this restart your computer, at first sign the computer is loading start to tap F8 on your keyboard.  It will start up looking different and it might scare you a little but it will be alright.  The computer will take you to a black page with Safe Mode high lighted, but you want Safe Mode Networking high lighted.  Use your arrows on your keyboard to move down to Safe Mode with Networking, then click enter on your keyboard.  This will then take you to your desk top.  It will look different the icons will be bigger and the background will be blue.  Thats good.  Safe Mode is your computer with only bare bones software loaded.  Now do all the things I talked about above except don't go into your task manger.  You won't need to shut down Antivirus Soft because it didn't load in Safe Mode.  Now you can surf to Malwarebyes, but you might still need to uncheck the Lan settings to get the update to download. Good Luck!

Trojan called Security Tool

Man!!!   Yesterday my husbands laptop got a Trojan Called Security Tool.  Wow it was nasty.  I spent 3 hours trying to figure out what to do.  Then another 3 hours fixing it and running anti ware programs to clean it up.

This is what I did.. short explanation

First restart the computer, when it's starting up before everything at start up is loaded.  Hit Ctrl, Alt and Delete all at the same time.  That will bring up the Task Manager.  Click on the Processes tab.  This thing was a 8 digit number which happened to be the first on my list.  Click on it to high light and then at the bottom click on the end processes.  This will shut down the nasty Trojan so that you can get online.  Then go to Malwarebytes Anti Malware the download is free.  Download, install and run it.  Then follow instructions to quarantine all infections.  It will take care of Security Tool.  Then make sure you update and run your other anti spyware and adware programs.  Then I also download Firefox on my husbands computer.  A week ago I downloaded  IE8 on his computer and in that week he had 2 different problems.  My daughter and I both us Firefox on our computers and don't have any troubles.  So now all the computers in the house are using Firefox.  We'll see if that helps.