Thursday 29 December 2011

Security Shield - How I managed to remove this nasty fake program

Security shield is a fake anti-virus program that tries to get your credit card details by displaying a well designed and professional looking screen that tries to sell you it's fake software by listing viruses that it finds on your PC which do not actually exist. This is a very nasty virus, which after looking at solutions the way that worked for me to remove it from a Samsung NC10 was to do a CTRL+ALT+DEL while the screen was displayed and locate the .exe that was running, this will be some random letters followed by .exe. Once I located the name of the file I search the registry ('regedit' command from the run menu) for this file, and deleted any reference to it. After restarting the PC everything seemed to work fine and was back to normal.

Sunday 4 December 2011

Samsung Smart TV - The Good and The Bad

I have now owned a Samsung D6530 LED Smart TV for over 3 months now. I really like the Smart TV option which connects to the internet via my wireless router, here are my views so far with the applications available on the Smart TV option:
1) BBC iPlayer is great, it is the app I use most and works exactly how I want it too, this is so far the best app.
2) You Tube, this is one of the worst apps I have used and it is better to access You Tube from the internet option rather than using the app.
3) Love Film would be good but I decided to cancel the subscription because the choice of films was very limited.

So far the biggest issue I have come across using the Smart TV option is that I need a keyboard for using the internet.

I would like more TV companies like ITV and Channel 4 to bring out apps like iPlayer for the Samsung TVs.