Do you have a Facebook account? Probably. About 800 million people do. Have you gotten an email with the subject line “Your Facebook seems to be hacked”? It carries with it a zipped file and in the zipped file is a Trojan (at last that’s what 21 of 42 antivirus scanners say: See the VirusTotal report We noticed… Read More »
For those of you who live who live in areas of the USA where broadband service is not available, you might be interested in Verizon’s new home broadband service. It’s not cheap, but it is broadband so it will be much, much faster than dial-up or satellite. Your bandwidth will be limited to 10GB for $60 a month.… Read More »
Interactive Corp’s (IAC) FunWebProducts has consistently denied their bundle of software (FunWebProducts) is spyware or adware. We’re not going to argue what it is. What we can tell you is this: products from Interactive’s FunWebProducts has caused many users serious computer problems. We have repaired a lot of computers helping PC users via our Cloudeight Direct Computer Care… Read More »
Last week while preparing this newsletter I was fooling around with a few new programs, one of them was a PDF program that installed drivers to my Windows 7 computer. Any time you install drivers for a program (or whatever) it seems something in Windows gets mentally unbalanced or even angry. Windows got angry with me. Now for… Read More »
You might think that security begins with an “S” as in Security Software, but I’m here to tell you that it begins with “Y” as in YOU. You may have read one of the many articles appearing seemingly daily in the news about some big corporation or another being “hacked” by an individual miscreant or a cabal of criminals. And… Read More »
Yes, we know since Windows XP, you don’t need a 3rd-party unzip program to unpack zip files. But what if you download a RAR file or Gzip file or some other kind of compressed (zipped) file? You’re kind of stuck, because Windows won’t recognize them. So you’ll have to searching for a program to open these other types… Read More »