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Symantec Corporation has just announced the “retirement” of their Norton ConnectSafe DNS service.
If you have a PC that’s running any version of Norton Antivirus, your machine could also be using Norton ConnectSafe.
If so, you’ll need to switch to a different DNS service by November 15, 2018 to prevent your Internet service from coming to a screeching halt.
Important: This change won’t affect Norton Antivirus users who aren’t also using the Norton ConnectSafe DNS service. [Read more…]
By now you’re probably aware of the recent massive Facebook hack. After all, it’s been all over the news these past few days.
At last count this hack has resulted in at least 30 million users having at least some of their personal info stolen.
Unfortunately, the total number of users affected by the hack is still unknown, but Facebook is still investigating the breach so hopefully they’ll get it all sorted out before too long.
In the meantime, the company has published a special page on their website that will tell you if your account is one of the accounts already known to be affected.
Well, October is just around the corner and that means Microsoft will soon be releasing the annual Fall update to Windows 10.
Unfortunately, the upcoming release of the “Windows 10 October 2018 Update” will end up preventing a lot of PCs from booting up into Windows after the update is installed.
Just a quick heads-up: In all likelihood you’ll be receiving a pair of SMS text messages from the President of the United States on Wednesday, October 3, 2018.
You can get all the details on these special text messages by visiting this page on the FEMA website, but if you just want the gist I’ve summarized it below.
The header of the message will read “Presidential Alert“, and the text of the message will be delivered in two parts…
Part 1 will test the Emergency Alert System (EAS), and it will read as follows: [Read more…]
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Most folks know that Amazon Prime members get free 2-day shipping on thousands of products as well as a number of other valuable freebies. And of course they also know that a Prime membership costs $119 per year.
But guess what? If you’re a college student you can sign up for a 6 month subscription to Amazon Prime for free! [Read more…]