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 »

There’s a relatively new variant of an older Trojan/worm spreading across the Internet and this one is unusually bad because of the way it works and because if you’re not wary it could cost you $300 or more — and because most antivirus programs don’t catch it until it is too late. It’s commonly called CryptoLocker — it’s… Read More »