Setting up VMware with Windows on an Apple Mac Air in Henley in Arden

This morning we are with a customer on the High Street in Henley in Arden, We are here because the customer has bough a new Apple Macbook Air running OS X Snow Leopard they need it setting up with his wireless network, The customer also wants to run Windows software on this machine so we looked at Parallels Desktop Version 4 and VMware Fusion 3, we opted to try the VMware Fusion as they provided a trial version on download and at this time Parallels seems to be in beta, when finished the VMware worked perfectly with the Quicken and Microsoft Office programs so we purchased the full versions.

A Computer Repair at Henley in Arden

Next today we are with a customer in Henley in Arden, We are here to Repair a Compaq PC, The issue on the computer is that it is freezing up, Upon Investigation it is found to have two faults the first was that the processor heat sink was blocked up with dust, and the second was that it had a Trojan Virus, We cleaned up the computer and all is now working well.

 

Virus Removal and Computer Maintenance in Henley in Arden

This morning we are at Henley in Arden to remove a root kit virus called “Smart Fortress 2012″ this is going to be a scam to take money for a so called antivirus that claims you have thousands of virus’s or registry issues – standard scare tactic should be removable by editing the registry and running a Malwarebytes Scan.

Update : it turns out this arrived via an email claiming to be a Federal Express missed delivery and the customer had opened the attachment