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Question from Lona: Hi, Rick. I have a really short question that I’d like to ask if you don’t mind.
What does the term “Social Engineering” mean? I keep hearing it but I don’t have a clue what it is. [Read more…]
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Question from Karen: I have several old computers in my basement that I want to recycle.
I’ve always heard that you need to destroy a computer’s hard drive before you recycle it to prevent someone else from maybe getting your files.
My question is will removing the hard drive from a PC completely eliminate any possibility of someone finding my old files.
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Question from Amber: I do a lot of copying and pasting when I’m writing posts for my lifestyle blog.
Something that always irritates me is having to paste everything into Notepad to get rid of the formatting and then copy the “clean” text and paste it into the blog post I’m working on.
I checked Google and found a Firefox browser extension called Copy Plain Text that allows you to copy text and paste it without the formatting.
My question is, do you think it’s safe to use this extension? [Read more…]
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Question from Brenda: I’m so frustrated with all the calls I’m receiving from scammers who have spoofed someone else’s phone number!
I’ve always heard that’s illegal so why are so many people doing it?
So tell me, is spoofing illegal or not? [Read more…]
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Question from Barbara: Rick, my two year old computer wouldn’t come on the other day so I took it to the Geek Squad to have it checked out.
Long story short, they said the motherboard was bad and that it wasn’t worth fixing, so I bought a new computer.
The problem is I have literally thousands of photos on the dead PC’s hard drive that I desperately want to get off of it and onto my new computer. [Read more…]