Dianne says beware of Downloads.com (CNET) Beware of downloads.com-when I tried to download Musicbee I managed to stop RealPlayer and thought I had stopped Sweet Packs browser helper / Perion Network. I didn’t. I had it in IE10 and Firefox. It hijacked my homepage–yours–and added a updater and a couple of other things. You will find pieces in… Read More »
After weeks of testing many free and commercial anti-malware programs, and after communicating back and forth with Emsisoft, we’re very pleased to tell you that our number pick for anti-malware protection and detection is Emsisoft Anti-Malware… and we have no doubt at all about our decision. We know it’s the right one for you and for us. We’ve… Read More »
Sometimes you need to sign a document in a hurry. Someone sends you a PDF file and you monkey around trying to open it, then print it, then sign it, and then send it back by regular email. It just takes a lot of time – you know what I mean, right? Then there are times when you… Read More »
We’ll we finally took the Bing it On challenge. And unlike the people on the TV commercial, we both choose Google over Bing. Bing has done a really good job of copying Google, but the search results were a little weaker and not ordered the same. So we prefer Google. Your results may vary. We like you to… Read More »
There seems to be a general belief that the term malware, means malicious software, but that is not true. The prefix “mal” is not an abbreviation for malicious, it is a prefix meaning bad. There are a lot of words beginning with this prefix: malcontent, maladjusted, malevolent, malfunction. So when we use the term malware we mean, literally… Read More »
Searching with Google or any other search engine can be a mighty frustrating experience if you use vague search queries or don’t know a few of the secrets of power searching. Power searching is not limited to geeks, you know. Every one of us uses search engines almost every day. And why not? The answer to any question… Read More »