If You Think It Can’t Happen to You, Think Again! How to Recognize a Phishing Email Yesterday a good friend of mine called me in a panic. He received an official-looking email from Amazon telling him that his Amazon account had been hacked and asking him to click a link in that email to have someone… Read More »
Find Out if Your Email Address Has Been Breached Earlier this month (February 2021) over three billion user credentials were posted online as part of a data breach mega-compilation known as COMB. COMB, or the “Compilation of Many Breaches,” is not a new breach, it’s a hacker super database that combines stolen user data from… Read More »
Is That Email Legit or a Scam? We’ve been around the Web for a long time and a lot of our learning comes from the school of hard knocks. I can still remember the day my Windows 95 computer was scorched by a virus. I can remember, EB telling me my pathetic first PC didn’t have… Read More »
Be Careful When You Search Occasionally, we like to remind everyone that careless searching can lead to some serious problems. It’s extremely important to be on guard when using a search engine. There are enough scams and pitfalls on the web without bringing them to your PC with a poorly worded or careless search. BE CAREFUL… Read More »
Watch Out for Covid-19 Vaccine Scams Our mission is to help you with your computers and to keep you safe on the web. And in accordance with that mission, we feel it’s important to keep you informed and up to date on the latest threats you’ll face (or will be facing) soon. As most of you… Read More »
Fresh start: How to prevent malware infections in 2021 Emsisoft Blog, January 19, 2021, by Jareth (Darcy & I would like to thank the Emsisoft team for allowing us to share this article with you. ) This is Part 1 of our “Fresh Start” series, a collection of straightforward guides to help you rebuild your… Read More »