What is Password Spraying? We’ll tell you this: If we could spray your passwords and make them stronger we’d be spraying your passwords right now. We have harped and harped and prodded you about using strong passwords, because if you don’t you’re just making it easy for criminals and miscreants to gain access to your accounts – email… Read More »
Cloudeight InfoAve Premium – Issue #780– Available Online If you’re not a subscriber to Cloudeight InfoAve Premium Newsletter, please join us. It’s delivered to your inbox every Friday and it’s completely free! Subscribe right now! Cloudeight InfoAve Premium, Issue #780, was sent to all subscribers on Friday, September 21, 2018 at approximately 10:50 AM, Eastern daylight time (USA).… Read More »
How Long Has Your Computer Been Running ? This is a tip for Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 (all versions)How long has your computer been running since you last restarted it? We leave our computers running 24/7. If you asked us how long it’s been since we last restarted our PCs, we couldn’t tell you without looking… Read More »
CCleaner & Avast Still Playing Games With Users For a long time now, we’ve been warning our readers to steer clear of Avast. Avast seems to want to play games with user settings, install unwanted extra software, and continually prod user to update to the paid version of the software – sometimes even resorting to popups. CCleaner was… Read More »
The Death of Windows Disk Cleanup Has Been Greatly Exaggerated All the tech sites we looked at the last few days all seem to be abuzz with news from a Microsoft Blog that announced that Windows Disk Cleanup (cleanmgr.exe) is being “deprecated” in Windows 10 October 2018 Update (Version 1809). Above: The venerable, classic Windows Disk Cleanup For… Read More »
Phishing Is the Internet’s Most Successful Con Tricking people out of sensitive information online is far too easy. (From “The Atlantic” ) In the classic 1973 heist movie The Sting, two con men—played by Robert Redford and Paul Newman—build a fictitious world in a Depression-era Chicago basement to defraud a corrupt banker. They make an offtrack-betting room, hire… Read More »