Tag Archives: computer safety

26 Fake Indian Tech Support Call Centers Raided By Police; Arrests Made

26 Fake Indian Tech Support Call Centers Raided By Police; Arrests Made One of the most difficult things we have to deal with is when one of our readers falls for one of the many tech support scams that are ubiquitous on the Internet – the one we most frequently help people with is the Microsoft support scam… Read More »

Cloudeight InfoAve Premium – Issue #747 – Available Online

Cloudeight InfoAve Premium – Issue #747 – Available Online If you’re not a subscriber to  Cloudeight InfoAve Premium Newsletter, please join us. It’s delivered to your inbox every Friday and it’s completely free! Subscribe right now! Our Cloudeight InfoAve Premium, Issue #747, was sent to all subscribers on Friday February 2, 2018 at approximately 10:45 AM, U. S.… Read More »

Emsisoft’s New Anti-Ransomware Feature

Emsisoft’s New Anti-Ransomware Feature The latest WannaCry ransomware outbreak raised a lot of eyebrows as it wreaked havoc around the world, causing the shutdown of some hospitals in the U.K. and several large companies to suspend operations for 24 hours or longer. It has been a fact, in the past, that if your device were infected with ransomware,… Read More »

Free Online Virus & Spyware Scanners

For years now, we’ve featured Trend Micro’s “Housecall” as our recommended online virus and spyware scanner. We’ve always encouraged you to run it once a week to double-check your installed anti-virus and anti-spyware programs to make sure they haven’t missed anything. And, we still recommend Housecall as a free online scanner. But, we thought you ought to know… Read More »