MYOB update download corrupting registry?

Thanks to the team at First Class Accounts for passing on their experience with a downloaded update from MYOB.  Could have been due to the file becoming corrupted during the download process. After downloading and installing the new MYOB from the internet (Accounting Plus V18 or Premier V12), someone went to shut down her computer and found it would not…

Australian shops in spam subject

Recently my hotmail account junk e-mail filter has been catching some rather ‘Australian-targeted’ spam. Often with a sender of ‘Thanks for participating!’, ‘Much Thanks!’, the subject lines claim to have a voucher pending for me from an Australian store like Myer, Wollworths or JB-Hi Fi (though I’ve also seen an iPhone one too).  The company is…

When AVG goes bad

Intermittant but far too frequent STOP blue screen messages seen on Windows XP with AVG 8.0 Internet Security (the one with the firewall component).  Strange thing is, the blue screen often mentions things like IRQL errors, so it may lead you down a faulty hardware path. Turns out the AVG 8.0 firewall can be the…