Glenda wants to know how to get rid of AVG How can i get AVG off my computer?? Our answer It appears that more and more once great free antivirus programs are following the bad example set by Norton and McAfee – beginning with turning into security suites first, and apparently now becoming darn near impossible to completely… Read More »
Add-ons can add functionality to your browser. Firefox has a lot of great add-ons that work well and don’t slow Firefox to a crawl. But there are others which can adversely affect Firefox’s performance – some can not only cause Firefox to run slower but take a lot longer for it to start up. Without any add-ons, Firefox… Read More »
Since we’ve discussed the cloud and its pervasiveness (and it’s still in its infancy really) many times in this newsletter; we want to cover another subject which we’ve written about often in these pages: passwords. We’ve received dozens of emails from people who are really afraid of what the cloud may bring in the way of security breaches… Read More »
Susan wants to know how all about clean boots Can you please explain what a clean boot is and why someone would want to do a clean boot? One of my friends is reading a bunch of computer books and she was trying to explain to me about doing a clean boot but she wasn’t making any sense.… Read More »
Dan shares some of his observations about WOT (Web of Trust) “jeff134” This user posted about 200,000 negative posts. On a whole assortment of webpages including the vastly important Erowid on 4/30/11 as soon as I saw how much power they gave one individual I realized the scam that WOT had degenerated into. I have seen false positives.… Read More »
We’re finding ourselves more and more embroiled in the safe-surfing or site-rating controversy. With every new stationery collection we release, we are getting more and more feedback from people who are surprised that they’re getting warnings about our site. We are starting to hear from other site owners who are similarly negatively affected by these so-called safe-site or… Read More »