Avast Buys CCleaner Then Distributes an Infected, Hacked Version to Users We’ve cautioned users against trusting their computers to Avast many times. We based this on the number of computers we’ve worked that had Avast installed and that were infected with malware. We written several warnings about Avast, for instance this one that we wrote in 2014. In… Read More »
143 Million U.S. Consumers Affected by Equifax Data Breach Equifax is one of the “big three” credit reporting agencies. So, even if you don’t do business with Equifax directly, they know your business. Equifax knows all about you: Your credit card numbers, your social security number, your home address, your phone number(s), the banks you do business with,… Read More »
Tech Support Scams Continue to Evolve One day last week, I was looking at freeware picks, and site picks, and evaluating them for possible inclusion in our newsletters. I had 12-15 tabs open at the time, when suddenly, what to my bloodshot eyes should appear? This: And accompanying these ominous warnings including “There is a great threat of… Read More »
Use Scr.im to Trim Spam Any time you put your email address in plain text on Facebook, Twitter, forums, auction sites, etc. your email address will be harvested by spam bots that constantly patrol the web. If your email address is whosafraidofspam@not2savvy.org and you post that on the web, anywhere, on any page, your email address will end… Read More »
Tech Support Scams, Microsoft Support Scams: Scams Scams Everywhere! We published this article in May 2017 – focusing then on the Microsoft support scams going around at the time. This is a big update to that post and we’ve included even more screen shots of Microsoft tech support scams and other tech support scams – the ones you… Read More »
Why We Won’t Trust Windows Defender We’ve been reading with some interest of the U.S. government’s increased scrutiny of Russian-owned Kaspersky Labs. Kaspersky, as you may know make antivirus & security software. Kaspersky is being investigated by the FBI, CIA and NSA because of its ties to the Russian government. Kaspersky, on the other hand, is suing Microsoft… Read More »