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If your router was made by D-Link, you might need to update its firmware ASAP.

Posted on March 6, 2015

dlink-dir-820l-router If your router was made by D-Link it just might be one of several models that shipped with a number of critical security flaws.

Researchers have discovered that hackers can exploit these flaws to redirect your web browser to malicious websites, so it’s very important that you install the update that D-Link will be releasing for your router model just as soon as it becomes available.

If you have a D-Link DIR-820L, the firmware update for your router has already been released. You can download it right now by visiting this link: [Read more…]

Coming soon: A massive, super-fast 200GB microSD card from SanDisk

Posted on March 3, 2015

It’s a simple fact of modern life that as mobile devices become increasingly more powerful, they also need increasingly more storage capacity.

Flash memory maker SanDisk has been selling an already huge 128GB microSD card (#ad) for about a year now, but they aren’t about to stop there. In fact, the company has just announced a brand new microSD card that almost doubles that amount of storage space. [Read more…]

Lenovo promises to start releasing new PCs without ANY adware or bloatware

Posted on March 2, 2015

Last week I wrote about the incredible Lenovo Superfish fiasco, and it appears that the company just might have learned a valuable lesson from the incredible backlash they received from it.

The folks at Lenovo have released a statement explaining how customer security and privacy are among the company’s top priorities (Really? Could have fooled me!) [Read more…]

Firefox releases update to patch 16 security flaws, some of them critical

Posted on February 28, 2015

Mozilla has just released a major update to the popular Firefox browser that patches 16 security flaws, three of them rated critical.

This latest version is 36.0, and if you have Firefox set to update automatically you don’t have anything to worry about as it will all be taken care of for you.

But if you have it set to allow you to install updates manually, I recommend that you update to version 36.0 immediately. And by the way, if you have Firefox set to never check for updates…well, it would probably be a good idea to change that.

Follow these steps to check if you’re running the latest version of Firefox: [Read more…]

Scam Alert: Beware the insidious fake AdwCleaner look-alike that’s going around (it’s actually malware)

Posted on February 23, 2015

scam A few months ago I wrote about an awesome anti-malware program called AdwCleaner.

This free utility will quickly scan for and remove virtually every type of unwanted toolbar, adware and browser hijacker that’s out there from your computer.

As I explained in the post, AdwCleaner works great, and since it’s free I highly recommend that everyone download it and run it on occasion.

Well, now the scammers have turned the tables on AdwCleaner by creating a fake look-alike program that claims to be the real AdwCleaner, but is actually malware.

This is how the scam works: [Read more…]