Peanuts to Profits With Thor Schrock
Peanuts to Profits With Thor Schrock

Windstream has announced that they will be updating the minimum system requirements for a PC to connect to DSL or DSL lite. Now you must meet the following minimum system requirements to receive support on connection problems from Windstream: Windows 2000, XP, or Vista 300 MHz or Faster Processor 128 MB of RAM Memory 100 […]

Windows Vista is scheduled to be released in just a few days. Many of my customers have been asking if they should upgrade when it is released and if so, what they should expect. I have installed Vista a few times in the past couple months, and I have been doing some significant reading on […]

Two of my customers in the past few days have heard a rumor that AOL is discontinuing its dial up and high-speed Internet services. As many of you know, I strongly dislike AOL, but for the sake of truth, I decided to call them and find out the real story behind the rumors. I called […]

A new virus started showing up in people’s inboxes three days ago that attempts to trick people into opening an attachment that appears to be a video clip related to a news story. The virus is called Trojan.Peacomm and it arrives in your inbox with a subject line that resembles a news story. The subject […]

Last Tuesday Microsoft released some new security patches (as they do on the second Tuesday of each month) to deal with security vulnerabilities that had surfaced. Microsoft warned that one of the vulnerabilities (addressed by Microsoft Security Bulletin MS07-004) was already being exploited, and that patching is critical. Today it was announced that attack code […]

That’s right folks! It’s the second Tuesday of the month and that means it is time for another helping of updates for your Windows Operating System and Microsoft Office. Eight fixes are planned for release today. If you have your automatic updating turned on, there is no need to take any action – your computer […]

About two years ago Schrock Innovations began bundling the Open Office Suite with our new Modular PCs. Open Office is a popular FREE alternative to Microsoft Office that offers word processing, spreadsheet, and database capabilities. A critical flaw was discovered in Open Office that could allow an attacker to take control of a computer running […]

Just before the holiday weekend Adam successfully removed four particularly nasty spyware threats from a test computer using Version 2 of our Maintenance Checkup Home Edition software. Version 2 has been long awaited among our Version 1 (or legacy) customers, and for good reason. Version 2, as it is called in the Omaha Service Center […]

A new tutorial has been added to the Schrock Innovations DIY section. Some customers have reported receiving an “Error 10” message when installing a Norton product such as Norton Internet Security or Anti Virus. The normal uninstall / reinstall with a double reboot does not fix this problem, and the Norton Removal Tool alone is […]

It is no secret that Lithium Ion batteries can be dangerous if they do not function properly. Investigators are still looking into the possibility of a Sony-based lithium-ion laptop battery causing the fire at the Nebraska Wesleyan fraternity house last month. While Lithium Ion is normally safe, no other power technology has historically offered the […]