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Another day, another Facebook scam. This one features a fake Marlboro coupon that’s supposedly good for two free cartons of Marlboro brand cigarettes.
The coupon looks real enough, but if you click on it you won’t be directed to the official Marlboro website.
Instead, you’ll end up on a fake website that could infect your computer with malware and/or trick you into giving a hacker your personal and financial information.
Here is a screenshot of the fake Marlboro coupon: [Read more…]
Did you update your PC from Windows 7 to Windows 10 only to decide later that you’d like to go back to Window 7?
As you probably know, you can easily roll your Windows 10 installation back to Windows 7 if you want to, but there’s a catch…
You’ll only have 30 days to roll your system back to Windows 7 if you decide that you don’t want Windows 10.
If you wait longer than a month your computer’s original Windows 7 license will be permanently assigned to your new Windows 10 installation.
That being said, if you have already missed the 30 day roll-back window you can still install Windows 7 onto your machine, but it’ll cost you a few bucks. [Read more…]
By now you probably know that you can update your Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 PC to Windows 10 for free any time during the first year after Windows 10 was released.
Well, that first year will soon come to an end.
If you’re still trying to decide whether to accept the free Windows 10 update, you only have about three months left to make a decision. [Read more…]
Hello again everyone. I hope you all had a great week!
Well, Windows 10 has been out for about nine months now, and I must say that the more I use it, the more I like it. I truly believe it’s the best version of Windows that Microsoft has ever produced.
That being said, there are some issues with Windows 10 that range from mildly annoying to downright frustrating. I’d like to take this opportunity to discuss a few of them and provide some tips for mitigating them as much as possible. [Read more…]
A couple of well-respected online security firms have reported that there are at least two critical security holes in the latest version of Apple’s QuickTime media player.
What’s more, Apple has reportedly told those firms that QuickTime will be deprecated (aka abandoned) in the very near future so they won’t be releasing any new security patches for it.
I won’t go into the technical details of how these known security holes can allow hackers to break into your system, but just be aware that they can. If you’re interested in reading about those technical details, you’re invited to click here and here. [Read more…]