Peanuts to Profits With Thor Schrock
Peanuts to Profits With Thor Schrock

Don’t miss Compute This Saturday morning at 10:00 on Lincoln’s KFOR 1240 AM. We will be talking at length about the all-new Maintenance Checkup Home Edition Version 2. You can win a FREE 2-year subscription to the all new version, so be sure you are listening so you know how to win! If you have a question about the new MCHE version 2, feel free to call on the air at 489-1240.

The Lovely Kimberly will tell you how you can win a free professional photography session and 11×14 wall print just by visiting her blog at www.kimberlyschrock.com.

I will also be talking about the latest security loophole that is leaving thousands of computers wide open to online attacks – even if they have anti-virus software installed. This is definitely a show you don’t want to miss! As usual, if you can’t listen to the show or live in Omaha or somewhere other than Lincoln, you can always catch the archived show for free at www.schrockinnovations.com/radio.php. I should have the program up within a couple hours of the end of the program.

A week or so ago I went to Family Med Center in Omaha, NE to talk with my doctor about my blood sugar and my family’s history of type 2 diabetes. I thought it was a bit odd that there was a sign on the door stating that many insurance providers were no longer paying for visits with Dr. Brown, but I didn’t see my insurance company, so I didn’t think too much about it. Then I saw the news last night.

KETV Channel 7 in Omaha, NE reported in an exclusive news story that Dr. Robert Brown (the doctor that apparently owns the clinic my family goes to) had his license to practice medicine suspended on February 1, 2007 by the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services for 30 days and has been placed on probation for 3 years. Back in July, the DEA suspended Brown’s license to prescribe controlled substances.

According to KETV, Dr. Brown is charged with overprescribing pain medication to his patients without maintaining the proper records that would indicate a need for the pain medication at the levels prescribed. Two of those patients have since died from overdoses of pain medication. One unnamed 35-year old male patient had 755 nanograms of Oxycontin per milliliter in his system when he died. The complaint against Brown indicates the normal therapeutic range is 10 to 40 nanograms per milliliter.

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This post is the third in a 10-post series about the all-new version 2 of the Maintenance Checkup Home Edition (MCHE) computer maintenance software from Schrock Innovations. You can win a FREE 2-year subscription by simply posting a comment on any of the MCHE posts. Only one free subscription will be given away, so post multiple comments or questions with your valid email address to increase your odds of winning!

The most critical component of any security software is an accurate and up-to-date malware detection database. Even the best security program is worthless if it does not stay current with the latest threats to your security and privacy.

The 2005 version of the Maintenance Checkup Home Edition (MCHE) did this by prompting you to update if new updates were available. Each time you updated with the 2005 version, it downloaded all detections for all infections, every time.

While the all-new version 2 of the MCHE is also heavily dependent on updates to keep you protected, it considers an update to be just that – an update to its existing database of malware infections. The MCHE now only downloads the information it does not already know from our update server. This means your updates are smaller and consequently they complete faster.

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This post is the second in a 10-post series about the all-new version 2 of the Maintenance Checkup Home Edition (MCHE) computer maintenance software from Schrock Innovations. You can win a FREE 2-year subscription by simply posting a comment on any of the MCHE posts. Only one free subscription will be given away, so post multiple comments or questions with your valid email address to increase your odds of winning!

One of the single greatest improvements in the all-new version 2 of the Maintenance Checkup Home Edition (MCHE) is the addition of a real-time scanning engine.

In the 2005 version of the MCHE you had to allow your computer to become infected with malware before you could clean up the infection. Now the MCHE will detect malware the moment it attempts to activate on your computer, stop it in its tracks, and ask you what to do. You can decide whether or not to allow the malware to run on a case by case basis, or you can set the MCHE to always remove the malware without interrupting you at all. A small balloon notifies you that the MCHE protected your computer from an attempted malware infection.

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Schrock Innovations has assumed hosting and maintenance duties related to the Lincoln Independent Business Association Website after winning a juried bidding process by unanimous decision.

The bidding process to assume hosting and maintenance duties related to the association’s website, www.liba.org, was somewhat unique. There were three companies who were competing to provide free services to LIBA, just as Sterling Communications had done for many years.

Schrock Innovations submitted a web page design mock-up as well as a complete website plan that stressed the ability to update the website with ease as well as introducing many automated technologies to free LIBA’s administrators and staff to focus on more important matters within the association.

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An Omaha E-entrepreneur faces up to three years behind bars and a fine for sending junk email messages to thousands of recipients offering everything from ways to steal passwords to a peek into your FBI file.

Josh Eveloff allegedly sent thousands of emails to people and falsified the header information in those emails to mask who was sending them and where they were being sent from.

WOWT Channel 6 News in Omaha ran a news story on the accused spammer, who is only the third person in the US to be charged under the Federal Can-Spam anti-junk email act. You can watch the video here.

Customers ask me all the time how spammers get away with sending messages day in and day out. Even though this guy allegedly took some steps to cover his tracks, he was tracked down an an enterprising UNO cyber security employee who noticed spam flooding the UNO email servers.
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Microsoft has announced that they will be providing five years of “extended support” to consumer users of Windows XP. Previous to this announcement, all consumer support for Windows XP would have ended in 2009 – two years after the release of Microsoft’s new operating system, Windows Vista.

But before you give your Windows XP box a hug and a kiss for Valentine’s Day, “extended support” is different from the normal support that will be available until 2009.

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The all-new version 2 of the Maintenance Checkup Home Edition (MCHE) will be released on February 24th, and to celebrate I am holding a mini-blog contest. Over the next nine days I will be posting articles on some of the biggest improvements in version 2 of the MCHE.

All you have to do to enter this contest is come back to my blog every day and post a comment – good, bad, or a question on any of the MCHE-related blog posts. On the 24th I will draw a winner at random from the comments I have received on the blog. If you leave a comment, be certain to use a valid email address in the form if you wish to be entered into the drawing. I plan on notifying the winner via email.

A 2-year subscription to the MCHE is valued at $156.00, so this prize is worth a little something. You can comment as many times as you would like on as many items as you wish, as long as your comments are substantive and add to the ongoing discussion. SPAM comments will be deleted. The more frequently you comment, the greater your chances of winning.

That’s it – pretty cut and dry. By entering you agree to allow Schrock Innovations to use your name in a press release, and you agree to allow me to post your name on this blog. Have fun!

Last week David Cisar closed a deal with Schrock Innovations to host and maintain his website about Coaching Youth Football.

David is a respected national authority on football for young children, and his website offers information to help other coaches make their young players’ experiences as educational and exciting as possible. His latest book is endorsed by former University of Nebraska Football Coach Tom Osborne, as well as other college and professional coaches nation wide.

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Last Saturday on Compute This the Lovely Kimberly took off her PC Pizazz hat and donned her hat as a professional photographer.

Kimberly Schrock Photography is holding a contest to find new models for the company’s website and marketing literature. If you have a child, grandchild, or are expecting a child, you can enter the contest for a free photo session and an 11×14 wall portrait of your choice from that session – A $175 value!

Entering the contest is as easy as emailing a sample photo of your child, grandchild, or expectant mother to Kimberly Schrock Photography.
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