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Phishing scam attempts are distributed in many forms, but most of them arrive in our email Inboxes in the form of fraudulent emails.
The scammers are getting better at their evil craft by the day and it’s pretty hard to tell some of the fake emails from real ones.
Luckily, that isn’t the case with this latest round of phishing emails.
Here’s a screenshot one such email that landed in my Inbox this morning: [Read more…]
A very dangers scam is making the rounds again, and it’s one that you really need to be aware of. It works something like this:
You receive a phone call from someone who claims to work for either Microsoft or Apple tech support.
The name of the department the caller uses might vary, but he’ll either hint that he works for Microsoft or Apple, or just blatantly come right out and say so.
The problem is, he doesn’t work for either of those companies. He’s actually a scammer out to make a quick buck. [Read more…]
It’s no secret that Microsoft products dominate the landscape in the world of personal and business computers.
After all, Windows is far and away the most popular operating system on the planet for laptop and desktop computers.
What’s more, virtually every major company (and countless small ones as well) uses MS Office in their workplace.
A while back I wrote a post explaining why I believe Microsoft’s Windows Update procedure needs a lot of work.
At the time I was hopeful they’d have their act together by now, but I’m afraid that simply isn’t the case.
Virtually every Windows Update they’ve released this year has been buggy and caused problems for a significant percentage of Windows users.
In short, the problem seems to be getting worse instead of better.
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Microsoft has just revealed in this blog post that Windows 11 will be officially released on October 5, 2021.
On that date Windows 10 users will start receiving notifications that the update to Windows 11 is ready to be installed on their computers.