A Word About Emsisoft Internet Security For all Windows usersRecently Emsisoft began offering users of Emsisoft Anti-Malware (and antivirus) a free “upgrade” to Emsisoft Internet Security. We’re going to tread lightly here because we both really respect the Emsisoft team. We can understand why Emsisoft is heavily promoting its Internet Security Suite. The Internet Security software industry is… Read More »
Back when we were using Windows 95, we used to figure on a format every six weeks. That’s because about every other month you’d get up and turn on your computer and Windows 95 would not boot. And when it wouldn’t boot, you were done. You got out your little Windows 95 start-up floppy, and boot into DOS… Read More »
Summer Time Where I live, summers are not measured by the calendar so much as by holidays. Summer begins with Memorial Day and ends with Labor Day. The mid-point is marked by the Fourth of July. The calendar does not agree of course. Summer, according to “calendarians” (is that a word?) begins on or about June 21 and… Read More »
5 Million Gmail Passwords Leaked, Check Yours Now According to the Daily Dot, nearly 5 million usernames and passwords to Gmail accounts have been leaked on a Russian Bitcoin forum. Here’s what you should know. The list has since been taken down, and most sources are saying that lots of the information is quite old—though others are claiming… Read More »
Kill Those Accounts You Don’t Want, You Don’t Need, or You don’t Use We’ve all done it – we get caught up in the moment and sign-up for something that sounds really cool at the time. Alas, it turns out to be not so cool and we don’t use it, or we get flooded with emails, or messages… Read More »
Credit card details at risk as The Home Depot confirms it was hacked The Home Depot today confirmed that its payment systems were breached by hackers earlier this year. The company is yet to outline the details of the attack, but used vague language to suggest that customers who used credit or debit cards at its retail stores… Read More »