Self-destructing virus kills off PCs From BBC Technology The malware also tries to fool security tools by flooding hard drives with data A computer virus that tries to avoid detection by making the machine it infects unusable has been found. If Rombertik’s evasion techniques are triggered, it deletes key files on a computer, making it constantly restart. Analysts… Read More »
Say Farewell to Windows Media Center When Windows 8 was first introduced, ,Microsoft wanted you to pay for Windows Media Center, but that didn’t work out so well. Microsoft later acquiesced to the outcry from Media Center fans and begrudgingly offered a Media Center add-on for Windows 8. Now it looks like the official death of Windows Media Center… Read More »
About this article… Again, with permission of our friends at Emsisoft, we’re featuring this article about email safety and how you can tell spam and scams from safe email. Don’t scoff and think you know how to tell – it’s not as easy as it use to be. Scammers and spammers have honed their skills and now nearly… Read More »
Where Windows 10 Stands Right Now by Woody Leonhard SOURCE: InfoWorld With beta builds arriving at an ever-increasing pace, Windows 10 testing proceeds full speed ahead, with new features unveiled at every turn. If you don’t have the time — or the interest — to keep up with the details, this report will keep you posted on how… Read More »
The Lawnmower Incident Every day we fix computers. And when we’re not fixing computers, we’re working on tips and tricks for computers. Almost every day is spent working on or with computers. So, to us computers are pretty simple devices, which can get annoying -but we don’t look at them as complicated, frustrating, mysterious devices. However we know… Read More »
Scotland Has Nessie, but We Have EBee That’s right, the Loch Ness “monster”, Nessie, had nothing on our own Michigan Monster EBee, last seen dining somewhere in the Caribbean while her stand-in does computer repairs for Cloudeight Direct from Michigan. We’re offering a reward for any EB sightings anywhere in the world! So be on the lookout for… Read More »