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Windows AntiVirus 2011 or Fake AntiVirus
There have been a lot of fake antivirus infections lately. I’m getting several calls a week from people telling me that while they were searching the internet, windows started popping up all over...
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Google: Your Computer Appears to Be Infected
From KrebsOnSecurity Google last week began warning more than a million Internet users that their computers are infected with a malicious program that hijacks search results and tries to scare users...
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Fake Antivirus Industry Down, But Not Out — Krebs on Security
Fake Antivirus Industry Down, But Not Out — Krebs on Security. Many fake antivirus businesses that paid hackers to foist junk security software on PC users have closed up shop in recent weeks. The wave...
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Maybe My Password Isn’t As Strong As I Thought It Was
For years, we in the computer industry, have been telling people to create cryptic passwords that include upper and lowercase letters, numbers, and special characters. We’ve been saying that if you...
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Users report Microsoft Security Essentials removes Google Chrome
By Ed Bott | September 30, 2011, 9:14am PDT – Full Article from ZDNet Summary: Hundreds of users on Google Chrome Help forum this morning reported that Microsoft security products were identifying...
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25 “Worst Passwords” of 2011 Revealed – Yahoo! Finance
25 “Worst Passwords” of 2011 Revealed – Yahoo! Finance. If you see your password below, STOP! Do not finish reading this post and immediately go change your password — before you forget. You will...
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Email: Spam, Virus or Clean?
Not sure if you’ve noticed, but there are a lot of emails being received that have a few lines of gibberish followed by a hyperlink, and often times a nice motivational quote. Many times, these emails...
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Internet Explorer Compatibility with Chrome
If you use Chrome as your primary browser, you may have run into an internet page that works best under Internet Explorer, or actually requires Internet Explorer. I ran into this the other day when I...
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An Easy Way to Stay Safer on the Web, with OpenDNS
Since this post is going to be a little technical, I’m going to start by defining some of the things that will be discussed. DNS – Short for Domain Name System (or Service or Server), an internet...
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Analysis of Yahoo Voice Password Leak – 453,441 Passwords Exposed | Sucuri
Have you noticed an increase in spam from those you know with yahoo, hotmail, aol or gmail accounts? There’s a reason for that. Apparently, there was a massive leak of Yahoo passwords and since many...
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News Overload? Have You Heard of Flipboard?
By nature, I don’t watch the news. Often times it’s filled with nothing but bad news and then when I finally hear something I’m interested in, I never really get enough information since the...
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Is This Email from a Friend Safe to Open?
With all of the spam email being delivered, here are a few tips that will help you decide if the email you’ve just received are spam.The To: field has email addresses in it that are obviously fake (you...
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Internet Explorer Malware Hole
Microsoft announced this weekend that ALL versions of Internet Explorer were at risk for “drive-by” attacks from malicious websites. These attacks are currently happening around the world so this isn’t...
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Did You Know You Could Do This With Your Apple iOS 8+ Device?
Now that Apple seems to have gotten the bugs worked out of their 8.+ update, I started to find various changes that are pretty cool. The more I searched, the more I found. I’d like to share them with...
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How Can I Check My Email to See if it’s Spam?
Every day it seems there is more and more spam coming to us in our email. Some have links that we’re tricked into clicking on. Some have attachments we’re pushed to download and “view”. Most have a...
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Don’t Get Scammed While Shopping This Holiday Season
The holiday season is upon us. That means Black Friday, Cyber Monday, online shopping, deliveries, special emails, etc. With all of that going on, the chance of being scammed increases. It was this...
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Can Your Password Change Your Life?
I’m a stickler for strong passwords. Amazingly, the top 10 passwords used on the internet in 2014 were: 123456789 123456 password Adobe123 12345678 qwerty 1234567 111111 123123 abc123 Is it any wonder...
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How To Stay Safe From Unsafe Websites On The Internet
Have you ever visited a website and moments later a window opens up on your computer telling you that your computer is infected with hundreds of viruses and thousands of other types of malware? Have...
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Amazon Free Shipping – How to Make Sure You Get It.
If you don’t have an Amazon Prime membership and you order on Amazon, you may have noticed at checkout the notice telling you that if you add $X amount to your order you would qualify for free...
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RANSOMWARE – What is it? How to Avoid it!!!
Perhaps you heard of the Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center that recently had to pay $17,000 to hackers who had seized control of the hospital’s computer systems and held them for ransom? They...
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