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Security firm Dr. Web has discovered a new strain of ransomeware that’s attacking Linux-based web servers, encrypting their contents and demanding a ransome from the site owners in exchange for the decryption keys.
That means your website/blog could be at serious risk if your web hosting company isn’t very diligent about protecting their servers from the latest security threats. [Read more…]
If you’re a blogger, there are probably times when you find yourself in a situation where you need to take a peek at a website’s HTML source code? I do this fairly often, and chances are you do as well.
Virtually every web browser in use today allows you to display the HTML source code of the current web page with just a few mouse clicks, but the clicks required to do so vary from browser to browser.
But as luck would have it, there’s one very simple and super-fast way to display a page’s source code in any major browser, and it works the same way in all of them… [Read more…]
Tablet PCs are flying off the shelves these days, and for good reason. Even a budget tablet offers much of the functionality of a full-blown PC along with the awesome convenience of a mobile device.
That being said, many of the best-selling tablets run the Android operating system, and that’s fine if all you need to do with your tablet is use the Internet and play games.
But if you want to perform real computing tasks, you’re going to need something more.
I recently had an opportunity to check out the ASUS Transformer Book T100HA-C4-GR, a nifty tablet from ASUS that doubles as a laptop. It includes all of the following: [Read more…]
Question from Leonard G.: Rick, I have a question about one of my biggest pet peeves. After all these years, why does a computer still have to be restarted after many Windows updates are installed, but other updates install just fine without requiring a restart?
You’d think by now that Microsoft would have figured out a safe and dependable way to install ALL Windows updates in the background with us never even having to know they were installed. I hate having to stop what I’m doing on my computer just so Windows can shut down and “finish” installing an update!
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
Question from Mandy G.: I’ve been using Avast Antivirus for several months after reading how you recommend it, and so far I really like it. Something has me worried though.
A friend of mine told me that Avast uses their software to snoop on our browsing habits. Is that true? And if it is, why do you recommend it?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]