Are we becoming a police state? With our prisons overflowing and, in many states, police officers shaking down innocent citizens for money (see this article from USA Today) in a process called “churning”, how much further do we have to go before a majority of Americans stand up and say “enough is enough”? The U.S. government claims that… Read More »
We have taken a lot of criticism for recommending Emsisoft – especially when, shortly thereafter, we stopped recommending the free Microsoft Security Essentials. And we understand, that in today’s world in which people are second to profit and money is a god, it’s easy to think that everyone’s driven by profit. We never based this decision on… Read More »
From The Guardian comes the following article that we thought you’d be interested in reading. It’s just another example of huge corporations misleading customers and caring more about their image than their customers. Adobe Systems has said that the scope of a cybersecurity breach disclosed nearly a month ago was far bigger than initially reported, with attackers obtaining… Read More »
Windows 8.1, on its surface does not seem to be much different than Windows 8. But that’s only at first glance – when you dig a little deeper, you’ll find that Microsoft really did listen to the complaints about Windows 8 and implemented a lot of them in Windows 8.1. While Windows 8 didn’t have any kind of… Read More »
Some Windows 8 users who have upgraded to Windows 8.1 are seeing an annoying message on their desktop that says “SecureBoot isn’t configured correctly”. Microsoft explains it this way: “SecureBoot helps increase the security of Windows 8.1 and Windows RT 8.1 PCs by stopping unauthorized software from running. If you see a “SecureBoot isn’t configured correctly” message in… Read More »
The following article appeared in the Seattle Times on Friday October 25, 2013. We wanted to share this with you, in case you are one of those having problems with the upgrade — or one of those thinking about upgrading your Windows 8 computer to Widnows 8.1. Here is an excerpt from the article: Windows 8… Read More »