Podnutz Daily #307 – Brian The Computer Guy

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Brian Houston from www.ComputerGuyQCA.com joins us this week.

Topics, Tips, and Links Discussed:

  • logmein
  • Yellow Page Ads
  • Steve’s techsite builder with google adware campaign
  • customer service
  • Service pricing
  • Avoiding free customer support
  • Why On-site virus removal is a bad idea
  • Check your acronis back-up before erasing a hard-drive
  • recovery partitions can be infected
  • EASEUS Partition Master
  • Kaspersky Rescue Disk 10
  • Wireless mac address filtering
  • Don’t tell customers that a computer is done before it’s done
  • Under promise and over deliver
  • Be careful with Dropbox on infected computers
  • dealing with slow paying customers
  • know your limits
  • Referring business
  • you can use teamspeak to talk to other podnutz fans using the following credentials: podnutz.instantts.net port 4201
  • DriverPacks is a package of drivers for a particular category of hardware
  • Double driver lets you collect installed drivers for later re-installs
  • Ninite installer will install apps automatically
  • Linux Mint 10 Julia
  • Trinity Rescue Kit
  • Spybot search and destroy

Voicemails/Emails:

  • Nick tells about servicing a virus infested computer using the Ultimate Boot CD for Windows
  • Rich talks about licensing issues using terminals and servers

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Notes by Mike Evans at datamike.net