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Why Email is a Malware Magnet
Those of us who have been using computers for a few decades remember the days when getting a computer virus was more of a nuisance than today’s current nightmare, but back then computers and the internet played a much lesser role in our personal and professional lives. On top of this, the past purveyors of
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Facebook is profiting off political ads containing lies
There’s no way to spin this: Facebook is currently running a political ad with a false claim that Biden tried to bribe Ukraine regarding an investigation into a firm that employed his son. Facebook’s own fact-checking partners have debunked this claim, and yet, the ad has been viewed millions of times and even re-broadcasted by
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Get Ready for Windows 10’s Warts
I’ve spent the last 2 blogs getting you pumped up to upgrade to Windows 10, but you should know that despite being an overall improvement from Windows 7 and 8 in many ways, there are several aspects of the “new” operating system that are markedly different from Windows 7, and a few that are, in
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Prepping for your Windows 10 upgrade
Hopefully you read last week’s blog about the upcoming demise of Windows 7 and have made the decision to purchase a new Windows 10 machine. Even if you’ve decided to take the decidedly rougher path of Windows 7 to 10 upgrade on the same machine, you should still keep reading so that you can truly
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Getting Ready for Windows 7’s Exit
The day that many people are dreading is fast approaching: Microsoft is ending extended support for Windows 7 as January 2020, which means that it will no longer be providing updates and fixes to the extremely popular and widely used operating system. What you may not have realized was that Microsoft actually ended mainstream support
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Don’t get phished through Google Calendar
If you don’t have a Google account or use the Google calendar feature, you can stop reading and maybe read something from our back catalog. Still with us? Good, I’ll explain what’s happening, and then how you can plug this particular vulnerability. To put it simply, scammers are sending calendar invites to Google users that
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