Beware e-mails purporting to be an "e-card" from "friends" or "family". If there is not a name of someone you know directly identified in the e-mail, you are being lured into a spam botnet. See the PC Magazine article excerpt below, and click on the link to read the entire article.
Thursday August 23, 2007
Storm Worm Attacks Take On New Disguises
The big effort to build a new botnet these days is through the Storm ...
Here’s an important bit from PC Magazine. Evidently there are
phishing exploits arriving in your e-mail box pretending to be from
GoDaddy, a popular Domain Name Registrar. Do not respond to these
messages, or click on any links in the e-mail. Those of you hosting
with my hosting service, WyzHost, would never get anything from
GoDaddy because I do not use them.
Questions? Call me or drop me an e-mail.
The ...
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I don’t want to get all conspiratorial, but could this be another sick ploy by the RIAA to "deal with" muisc "piracy." Hope not, because this virus attacks legally purchased music in MP3 format as well
From PC Magazine
Monday August 6, 2007
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George Ou from ZDNet has published this excellent article. i followed the directions and achieved a much improved start up and operational environment on my two year old Toshiba laptop.
The article links are below, and I have included a PDF file courtesy of TechRepublic that you can save for your own use.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=547&page=2
How to fully de-gunk a PC of crapware
That pre-bundled software can make your PC sluggish, unstable, and prone to crashes. George ...
Here is a handy tip from Greg Schultz at TechRepublic. If you have a USB flash drive with several media types stored oin board, such as pictures, music, and document files, you may prefer to have Windows Explorer to open automatically do yo can browse to your files more quickly. Here’ how to do it.
Takeaway: AutoPlay can be fickle when it comes to determining the default action for opening files from your flash drive. Here’s how to ...
I have been recommending Zone Alarm Security Suite as my favorite security solution for several years. They have always, and continue, to rank in the first, second , or more rarely, third spot when reviewed by PC Magazine Labs. I recently had a question from one of my students, and I thought the exchange was worth posting in the blog. It follows:
HI BOB – I STILL HAVEN’T TAKEN NORTON OFF OR PUT ZONE ALARM ON. I’M HAVING SECOND ...
This is a copy of an article that was published in NewsScan.com back on June 27, 2003. As it turns out, my opinions have stood the test of time. I am republishing this article here because NewsScan is gone – gone forever from the web.
The Internet has made is possible, and easy, for almost anyone to realize their fondest dreams. Want to be a writer – well here I am – a writer. Want to be any ...
As many of you know, Microsoft has "abandoned" FrontPage in favor of a new suite of web development tools appearing under the Microsoft Expression name. The one that we are looking at is Expression Web, but there are special versions for SharePoint development as well.
I have been looking at this new product with some trepidation. My feelings were this: If Microsoft is going to force me onto a new development platform, maybe I should just learn Dreamweaver ...