Category Archives: Miscellaneous

One More Day!

One More Day! Special sale for Cloudeight Start Page users and InfoAve Daily subscribers continues for one more day! We often feature specials in our InfoAve Premium weekly newsletter, but rarely do we offer specials just for our Start Page users and/or our InfoAve Daily Subscribers. So from now through Monday, October 2, 2017, we’re offering our Start… Read More »

Equifax Does it Again [Almost]: A lesson to be learned

Equifax Does it Again [Almost]:  A lesson to be learned The Great Equifax Breach of 2017, allowed hackers to obtain sensitive information from approximately 143 million U.S. consumers. In order “to assist” victims of the attack, Equifax set up a website where people could go learn whether or not they were affected by the breach. Around the same… Read More »

Avast Buys CCleaner Then Distributes an Infected, Hacked Version to Users

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 »