Beware the Big Green Buttons Hello folks. Today’s lesson is called Big Green Buttons. In today’s lesson we’re going to play a game. The rules are simple. If you are careful and you read carefully, you’ll pass our test. If you hurry and make an error, you’ll fail. If you fail, you will have to do 100 pushups… Read More »
A Word About Emsisoft and VLC Player As most of you know by now we recommend and endorse Emsisoft because we believe it provides not only the best protection against viruses, Trojans, and worms, but also against the things you’re much more likely to encounter – malware, PUPs, and hijackers. We recently published an article about the end… Read More »
AntiAdware blocks download wrappers and adware on popular websites From Ghacks.net Depending on where you download your software from, you may get nasty surprises in form of adware with it. This is done to increase revenue for the site’s parent company at the expense of users visiting it. Some sites give you options to opt-out of using the… Read More »
About this article… Again, with permission of our friends at Emsisoft, we’re featuring this article about email safety and how you can tell spam and scams from safe email. Don’t scoff and think you know how to tell – it’s not as easy as it use to be. Scammers and spammers have honed their skills and now nearly… Read More »
Windows Defender: Defenseless (Applies to Microsoft Security Essentials too) If you’re using Window 8x or Windows 10 and you are relying on the built-in Windows Defender to protect you, you’re in for a shock – you’re basically unprotected. Yes having Windows Defender running is better than nothing but barely. Windows Defender is exactly the same program as Microsoft… Read More »
Intro Note: We are publishing another blog from Emsisoft because it contains more information on how you get PUPs and malware and reinforces what we have been telling you for years in our newsletters. Also, you’ll notice Reimage is mentioned here; we, at one time recommended and sold Reimage, but when the company changed hands and the product… Read More »