Remove Sweet Page portal in Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Explorer

The present article seeks to single out the essential characteristics of the computer virus called Sweet Page, in particular its propagation manner, activity on the target computer, analysis of the landing page at www.sweet-page.com and, naturally, easy-to-follow removal instructions.

www.sweet-page.com screenshot

Remove Trovi virus: Uninstall trovi.com search in Chrome, Firefox, IE

This tutorial has been created for users seeking aid with the elimination of the Trovi adware threat to take care of this problem through an easy-to-follow procedure. The post also encompasses a complete description of the Trovi Search infection as far as its spreading and activity on the contaminated PC are concerned. So read this carefully and get down to removal without further delay.

Trovi.com landing page

How to remove Speedial Search from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer

The primary task of this tutorial is to explain why Speedial is flagged as a malicious web browser extension, how its payload gets into computers, what possible risks to user privacy may arise from its activity, and how the said virus can be removed from a compromised OS.

Speedial.com screenshot

Review: DuckDuckGo (May 2014 redesign) Compared to Google, Bing, Yandex

If you are reading this article, you’ve probably already heard of DuckDuckGo. Internet users that stick with the status quo usually don’t look any farther than the first search option offered by their web browser. On the other hand, inquisitive users that depend on the Internet for statistics, comparisons, and hidden pearls of useful information are probably all too familiar with the perks and pitfalls of the current Internet search engines. DuckDuckGo was nothing more than a miniscule blip on the radar of demanding Internet searchers since its inception in 2008.

Configuring and Debugging My Linode VPS with an SPF Record that Passes the Gmail Spam Filter

I have been having no end of problems with my outbound email messages sent by my Drupal sites since I switched from shared hosting to VPS hosting. A typical shared host offers a well configured SMTP server with documentation about how to configure the MX and SPF records. On the other hand, a VPS requires the administrator to install and configure the mail transfer agent, which can be surprisingly complex.

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In support of open source launchers

After many years of using traditional desktop environments like Gnome 2 and KDE and XFCE, I recently spent a few months with Ubuntu 13.04. Overall, my experience with the Unity desktop was fairly positive after I tweaked and configured it to my liking. Since then, I’m using a different non-Ubuntu based distribution, so I’m currently using Mate 1.6. Probably the feature that I most miss from Unity is the launcher. Frankly, I’m surprised that the Unity launcher was so useful and intuitive for me, since I have never been particularly fond of keyboard navigation.

How to quickly configure superb subpixel hinted smooth fonts for openSUSE 12.3

Given the fact that many computer users spend many hours every day, if not the better portion of their waking hours staring at a computer screen, it’s surprising how few users seem to pay attention to the quality of font rendering. I frequently read Linux distro reviews, and rarely if ever do they mention font rendering quality. For me, a heavy computer user, top-notch font rendering is the most important feature after system stability.

The best WYSIWYG option for Drupal is no WYSIWYG

What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get (WYSIWYG) editors for Drupal are abundant. Good ones are not. Most WYSIWYG editors for Drupal produce messy markup and don’t respect the site’s CSS theme. Additionally, many of them don’t integrate well with Drupal and cause problems on certain browsers. Worse yet, almost none of them work on Apple and Android tablets and smartphones. There are a few decent WYSIWYG editors for Drupal that can produce decent markup if the writer uses the tool properly.

How to use Google CSE with Drupal

It’s been a long time since I visited my site’s Google Custom Search Engine (CSE) settings page. I was happy to see that in 2012 Google apparently added a new option to sort results by date, as well as site image searching. This should be a real boon for users. But at the same time, I noticed that under the Look and Feel settings, it now says that the iFrame display method is deprecated.