Wikipedia’s definition of a virus hoax fits perfectly to a recent email question posed by one of my clients on an email she received: A computer virus hoax is a message warning the recipient of a non-existent computer virus threat. The message is usually a chain...
Found this one in PC World magazine and thought I would share it with my clients… How many old cell phones do you have laying around the house? If you are like me, likely a ton! Some carriers will take them from you and recycle for free (and even Verizon...
I have a recent success story to tell. One of my clients had a hard drive fail in his laptop just recently. The computer would no longer boot Windows even in safe mode. I received the laptop from him early on a Saturday morning when I was making waffles and still...
Did you know that it is not legal to just pull pictures off web sites to use them for your own purposes? You can be sued for violating copyright protections on someone else’s work / intellectual property. How do you avoid this dilemma? Make sure you are...
Did you get a questionable email that you thought was from your bank? Make sure your chord is not being yanked by a fraudster running social engineering scams. Here are a few things to keep in mind about banking online and how your bank will protect you: 1. Your...
Brace yourselves you young pups, but computers in the “old days” (ok the very old days) did not have a need for a mouse. You typed everything! All commands, everything you wanted to do needed to be done via the keyboard. In my opinion, this is part of the reason...
