Category Archives: Scams

IRS Scams and Tech Support Scams

IRS Scams & Tech Support Scams It’s tax season here in the USA and that means not only do you have to be careful about tech-support / your-computer-is-infected telephone scams, this time of year you have to worry about tax scams and folks impersonating IRS officials. An IRS agent is not going to call you out of the… Read More »

How to Reset Firefox and Clear Browsing History

    How to Reset Firefox and Clear Browsing History If you’re having problems with Firefox and you’ve tried removing extensions and everything else you can think of, but Firefox still doesn’t work the way it should, you may want to reset or “refresh” Firefox. This will remove all extensions, add-ons, and other modifications and return Firefox to… Read More »

How to Reset Chrome and Clear Browsing History

How to Reset Chrome and Clear Browsing History How to Reset Chrome Updated on 7/2/24 In Chrome open Settings, type chrome://settings/  in the address bar, or click the 3 vertical dots icon at the top right corner of Chrome. In the left menu, click “Reset settings”. In the “Reset setting” dialog, click on “Restore settings to their original… Read More »

New Tech Support Scam Affects Chrome & Firefox users

New Tech Support Scam Affects Chrome & Firefox users This scam was first reported two days ago ( 6 Feb 2018 ). Since then, it has been discovered that along with Chrome, Firefox and Brave browsers are also affected. This scam works by flooding the browser with 2000 download requests, right after the victim sees a web page… Read More »