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As you probably know by now, the scammers of the world are always coming up with new ways to separate innocent people from their hard-earned money.
Since the dawn of the World Wide Web, most phishing scams have been perpetrated via email, but that’s beginning to change.
While email is still the primary vehicle for delivering these types of scams, a relatively new generation of scams are now arriving in the form of SMS text messages.
Question from Ellen: Hi, Rick. Thank you for providing such good information. I have a question.
I use Safari as my browser and Google as my search engine on my iPhone.
My search history automatically shows up on our Windows PC on which we use Google chrome.
Other than deleting my searches, is there any way to keep my iPhone searches using Safari from showing up on our PC? [Read more…]
Question from Devon: I have an HP gaming desktop computer with Windows 10 on it.
I recently started getting a “Your computer is low on memory” warning that pops up on a regular basis.
I always do a fresh restart on the PC when it pops up but the warning comes back after a couple of hours.
This machine has 16GB of RAM in it and I don’t run that many programs at a time so I shouldn’t be getting this warning.
I only get this error if I’m running my Firefox browser, even if there are no other programs running.
How can I find out how much RAM Windows is actually using? [Read more…]
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Question from Linda: I’m looking for a new laptop Rick and I’ve noticed that the new ones on the market today don’t come with an optical drive.
I have hundreds of CDs and DVDs that are filled with photos that I need to access on occasion so my new laptop needs to have a DVD drive.
I know I can buy an external DVD drive, but I’d prefer to have it built-in.
Why on earth are they making laptops without optical drives? [Read more…]
Rick’s Tech Tips Newsletter
A while back I wrote a post on securing your Wi-Fi network in which I briefly mentioned the importance of keeping File and Printer Sharing turned off unless you have a good reason for actually using it.
In a nutshell, disabling File and Printer Sharing will prevent a hacker from being able to access the files on your PC if he/she somehow manages to connect to your local network.
Well, it occurred to me last night that I probably need to write another post explaining how to disable File and Printer Sharing in your particular version of Windows.
Well, here it is… [Read more…]