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During the install of AVG it gives a conflicting anti-spyware product detected error message and will not install. The message then goes on to say: “Setup had detected ewido anti-spyware or ewido anti-malware installed on your computer. Anti-spyware protection is now included in AVG. In order to proceed with installation, you will have to uninstall the previous anti-spyware product first”

I checked add/remove programs and I did not see any reference in there to ewido anti-virus / anti-malware, but I did find a key for it in the registry. Once I deleted the the “HKEY_Local_Machine\Software\ewido anti-spyware” registry entry I was able to install AVG with out any further problems.

Anyone else have the bug when you try to open a new tab using ctrl-t in Firefox that it sometimes won’t open a new tab? I seem to have the this issue and have figured out that only happens on pages where there is an Adobe Flash movie. I am running Firefox 3.07, Flash Player version 10,0,22,87 (find out what version here), and AdBlock Plus 1.0.1.

I have this issue on both my PC and Macintosh computers for a few months.

I had a server I was trying to sort through errors with and was having a hard time sorting through the Event Viewer because of the constant errors we were getting issued by DCOM. I tracked down the problem in the registry and found that it was associated with the HP Port Monitoring DCOM module.

Event Type:    Error
Event Source:    DCOM
Event Category:    None
Event ID:    10015
Date:        3/9/2009
Time:        3:38:12 PM
User:        DOMAIN\Username
Computer:    Server
Description:
The machine wide limit settings do not grant Remote Launch permission for the COM Server application with CLSID
{5A5AA0AA-1DEB-4683-96B0-B43301E83971}
to the user DOMAIN\Username SID (S-1-5-21-297925193-1886344193-3212067294-1225).  This security permission can be modified using the Component Services administrative tool.
To resolve the issue I located the computer that the user referenced in the error message was using and did the following:

Clicked on Start, went to run, and typed in dcomcnfg.exe
Browse the tree and went to Component Services -> Computers -> My Computer ->DCOM Config
Right clicked on “HP Port Resolver” to bring up properties
Selected the “Location” tab
Checked the box for “Run application on the computer where the data is located”and left all other boxes blank.