Joseph says Zone Alarm won’t let him access a site My Zone Alarm will not let me access the ‘TinyURL’ that you are using in your newsletters, thus denying me the ability to read the rest of the articles. Can you use something else to shorten the original URL, or somehow advise how I may access these? I… Read More »
The smiley business has declined over the years. Those happy smiley faces that everyone used to put in their emails and Web pages have lost their luster in the face of all the new technologies. But the younger folks and the older folks still adore them, and one company will give you all the smileys, glittering cursors and… Read More »
Twitter stood fast against a court order seeking personal information about one of its users. This is from a news story that appeared on many Web sites and in many newspapers today (09 May 2012). Read the article and come back and tell us what you think. We’d like your opinion. Is Twitter doing the right thing? Tweet… Read More »
Why You Really Need Malwarebytes Windows all versions First we’re not out to sell you something else. Second we’re not out to scare you. We’ve written about Malwarebytes many times in this newsletter. But it’s time to write about it again. Malwarebytes is not an antispyware or an antivirus — it is an anti-malware program that dares call… Read More »
A few years ago we made Fotomix a freeware pick of the week. It was great freeware, it was a great program. Then greed reared its ugly head. We received an email from Doug — one of our Premium subscribers – alerted us to Fotomix’s intrepid bundling. There’s no way to stop it from installing its ugly payload,… Read More »
It’s all about the money. Facebook’s (supposed) 901 million users will be treated to “free” security software from Norton, McAfee, Trend Micro and Sophos but it’s not really free. If you are a Facebook user (and according to Facebook everyone is) you’re going to have access to some of the biggest names in the security software business —… Read More »