“Discover”a phishing scam I received this email this morning and deleted it, and then thought about it and dragged it out of the deleted items folder. I thought this was a typical phishing scam designed to lure poor, unsuspecting folks who don’t subscribe to our newsletters … into giving up their Discover Card details. Since I don’t have… Read More »
Control Spam the Way We Control Spam Before we begin, we have never found a program to control spam well enough for us to use it for our business. We’ve tried them all including Mailwasher and the anti-spam components in security suites we’ve tested. They have the same flaws, either they filter out some good email with the… Read More »
Emsisoft – You’ve Done it Again! Several years ago, we stopped recommending MSE (Microsoft Security Essentials / Windows Defender) because of its poor ratings and because of its poor protection. And this was about the same time as Malwarebytes stopped detecting a lot of the PUPs it once detected and removed. So we were on a mission to… Read More »
How to Save Your Google Chrome Bookmarks You can export all of your Chrome bookmarks into a single HTML file that you can use to import bookmarks back into Chrome if you get a new computer or you just want to keep a copy of all your bookmarks in a safe place – a safe place being any… Read More »
Introducing Ransom32 – Ransomware with a nasty twist Step right up. Make money by locking other people’s computers. Sign up for the affiliate program and earn 75% of the ransoms you collect! Make thousands of dollars tricking people into installing Ransom32. No, unfortunately, that’s not more of TC’s crazy imagination – it’s a fact. Ransom32 was discovered just… Read More »
Export Your Gmail Contacts It is easy to export your Gmail contacts in CSV format (the format that almost all Email program recognize) so you can save them as a backup or import them into most any major email program. So here’s how you do it. Log-in to your Gmail account. Right beneath the Google logo, you will… Read More »