The Anatomy of a Scam We featured this article several months ago, but we are reprising it because so many people are again getting hooked by scams just like the one we describe in this article. We don’t want it to happen to you. Knowledge is power and knowing what to do if scammers try to trick you… Read More »
Which Is Worse: Driver Updater Programs or Malware? This question crossed my mind this morning as I was working on 2 different PCs, owned by 2 different people, in 2 different countries, who both were experiencing some really bad Windows problems. What did these two PCs have in common? These two PCs had one thing in common – they both… Read More »
Beware Adobe Acrobat Reader DC First, if you’re wondering what Adobe Acrobat Reader DC is, according to Adobe… “Adobe Acrobat Reader DC software is the free global standard for reliably viewing, printing, and commenting on PDF documents…” Installing the most recent version of Adobe Acrobat Reader DC, Adobe’s free PDF reader, it attempts to install an extension in… Read More »
Cloudeight InfoAve Premium – Issue #694 – Is Available Online Our Cloudeight InfoAve Premium Newsletter, Issue #694, is available online. Click here to read it! This weeks questions & answers: John is a Yahoo Mail user who’s not getting our newsletters Jenny says here start menu has disappeared from Windows 10 Gail says: “Help! Ads are following me!”… Read More »
Microsoft’s New Privacy Dashboard for Windows 10 Users Windows 10 has been a lightning rod attracting attacks by privacy activists like the EEF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) who recently excoriated Microsoft for blatantly misleading consumers and trampling “on essential aspects of modern computing: user choice and privacy“. Anyone using a computer or device connected to the Internet in 2017.… Read More »
New Phishing Scam Targeting Gmail Users No matter what you read, this is nothing like what happened to Yahoo users! We are publishing this because the news is spreading like wildfire today about serious phishing scam targeting Gmail users. And undoubtedly, you’re going to hear people who don’t know what they’re talking about comparing this to recent Yahoo troubles. This… Read More »