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Question from Phyllis: Hi, Rick. I’ve been following your blog for a while now and I love the info you provide. Thank you!
In several of your posts you recommend running periodic malware scans with the free version of Malwarebytes.
I clicked the link you provided and downloaded it, but after the program was installed it said I have 14 days left in my free trial?
I know for a fact that I clicked the link to download the free version. Why did it install a trial version? [Read more…]
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Back in the golden age of technology, you really didn’t need all that many tools in order to build, upgrade or repair computers and many other tech items.
If you owned a couple of screwdrivers, an anti-static wrist strap and a nut driver or two you could work on most any tech item. But today, things are a lot more complicated.
The way modern computers, monitors and mobile devices are constructed makes it virtually impossible to work on some items without specialized tools that can “crack open” a case or extract a part without causing physical damage to the item. [Read more…]
Question from Colette: My daughter emailed me a really cute picture of my grandson while I was at work.
I saved the picture to my computer’s hard drive and then copied it onto a thumb drive.
I verified that the picture was on the thumb drive and then I deleted it from the computer (we’re not allowed to keep personal files on our work computers). [Read more…]
As you probably know, Microsoft Windows has a “Clipboard” for storing text, photos and other information that we “copy” or “cut” from a web page or other document to paste into yet another document.
Truth be told, the Clipboard is easily one of the handiest tools in all of Windows.
It’s always there waiting for us when we need it, and it will gladly store most anything we need to copy from one location and paste to another.
Most people don’t give a second thought to the security of the Clipboard. After all, we rarely have anything stored in there can could be considered a security risk.
However, there are times when it might be wise to erase the contents of the Clipboard. Here are a couple of common examples: [Read more…]
As you surely know by now, scams are everywhere on the Internet these days.
Unfortunately, many of the most insidious scams pose as ways to help people who truly are deserving of our help.
One of the latest scams to rear its ugly head targets folks who have a desire to do something to help veterans who have been injured in combat.