Is 'Trend Micro Antivirus plus AntiSpyware' and Spysweeper (along with the firewall) enough to keep a PC clean?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Kronos_to_Earth at 8:05 PM on July 4, 2008 (10 comments)

Can simply connecting an infected jump drive release bugs onto a computer?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Kronos_to_Earth at 11:26 PM on May 1, 2008 (8 comments)

Photoshop Elements 3 is acting strange: The diffuse glow filter is darkening the areas it used to lighten to produce the glow effect. What happened?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Kronos_to_Earth at 11:23 PM on April 2, 2008 (2 comments)

Paul Lehr is my favorite SF cover artist. I found some files to use as wallpaper ( I think this is fair use...) but have had little luck. Are there any good (online) sources for his work?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Kronos_to_Earth at 7:42 AM on March 19, 2008 (3 comments)

I have a mysterious service listed.... It has the name ZPIXLKJXJ; the path to the executable is C:\DOCUME~1\User\LOCALS~1\Temp\ZPIXLKJXJ.exe . The description in the column in the Services window is blank, the status is stopped, it's manual, and "log on as" is local system. A Google search turns up "no matching documents"; Norton AV says it doesn't find anything untoward, as does Spysweeper, Ad-Aware, and Spybot. What in the world?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Kronos_to_Earth at 6:55 PM on February 17, 2008 (22 comments)

I'm looking for the title of a science fiction B movie which I saw very long ago for which I have only a fragmentary memory: a lab worker is covering a bell-jar like contrivance which is encaging two small, glowing and bobbing spheres of some un-nameable plasma (creatures...?!). She leaves the darkened room, and the guys working the baby spot - I mean, they escape, wending their eerie way around the eerily lit lab....and the memory ends. What film is it?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Kronos_to_Earth at 11:05 PM on February 8, 2008 (4 comments)

My computer- a Toshiba Satellite A65, running Windows XP SP2- will sometimes collapse on starting, displaying only a mottled white screen. The only way past it is to shut the machine off and restart (hoping it doesn't happen again). What component or process is failing?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Kronos_to_Earth at 7:20 PM on January 30, 2008 (6 comments)