Oops we made an error in both Premium and Free editions of our InfoAve newsletters. We used Google’s link shortener to shorten the link and apparently it violated their terms of service. Hmmm. Funny that Google who allows scamware, scumware and malware advertisements would find a good, upstanding and useful program like Error Goblin to violate their terms… Read More »
Deleted files: Gone but Not Forgotten When you “delete” files they’re not really deleted and they’re not taking up space either. It’s sort of like they’re in purgatory. Think of your hard drive as a chalk board. When you erase a chalk board, you can’t see what you erased (very well) but somewhere in the slate of the… Read More »
Emsisoft – you’ve done it again! Emsisoft finished #1 in the 4th quarter testing done by the well-respected independent testing lab Virus Bulletin making us even more glad that Emsisoft is our #1 choice for computer protection. We’ve yammered on and on about how great Emsisoft is, but here’s something you have not read — Virus Bulletin’s Choice… Read More »
Our partnership with Emsisoft has been a good one. Whenever Emsisoft writes an article we find informative, they let us share it with you, no questions asked. Here’s a new article by Emsisoft that will help you recognize a PUP when you see one – and by PUP we don’t mean Spot. We have told you many times… Read More »
Scamware “Everyone in every culture knows the story of the snake oil salesmen. You know those charlatans who traveled from town to town pandering the elixir of life to anyone who would listen to their shtick. The elixir of life, as it turned out, was mostly alcohol with some bark extracts and flavoring. But those poor old teetotalers… Read More »
The Num Lock Key Most of us never use the Num Lock key. Some of us don’t even know where it is or even care where it is. But, we’re going to show you a little trick using the Num Lock key that is really useful. So, in case you don’t know where the Num Lock key is,… Read More »