25 “Worst Passwords” of 2011 Revealed – Yahoo! Finance. If you see your password below, STOP! Do not finish reading this post and immediately go change your password — before you forget. You will probably make changes in several places since passwords tend to be reused for multiple accounts. 1. password 2. 123456 3.12345678 4. [...]
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By Ed Bott | September 30, 2011, 9:14am PDT – Full Article from ZDNet Summary: Hundreds of users on Google Chrome Help forum this morning reported that Microsoft security products were identifying Chrome as a password-stealing Trojan and removing it. Update: Microsoft acknowledged the issue, posted a fix. UPDATE, 10:00 AM PDT: Microsoft has identified [...]
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There have been a lot of fake antivirus infections lately. I’m getting several calls a week from people telling me that while they were searching the internet, windows started popping up all over their screen telling them they have viruses, trojans, etc. I used to spend hours cleaning computers with various antivirus programs, but then [...]
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Lately it seems more and more e-mail accounts have been hijacked and are being used to send out spam. Most of these e-mail accounts have been web based accounts, like Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail and AOL. What happens is that someone gains access to an e-mail account and begins to send spam to everyone in the [...]
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Microsoft plans to release fixes for twelve security bulletins tomorrow, three of which have been deemed “critical”. Those who don’t bother with the update could find themselves vulnerable to several remote execution threats. Security experts are referring to this Patch Tuesday as an important bit of “spring cleaning” on the part of Microsoft, but it’s [...]
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By Paula Rooney | November 8, 2010, 7:59am PST Google has teamed up with three major airlines to make Chrome and the Internet available free on flights through the holidays. On Monday, the web services giant’s browser team said it has deals in place with AirTran, Delta and Virgin American to provide Gogo inflight Internet [...]
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What a day. In front of me was a computer that was booting to nowhere. It was just a continual loop back to the statement that there were not boot files available. Then, as I got closer, I heard the tell-tale clicking of the hard drive. The good news was that it was still spinning. [...]
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Ran into a situation where I had to install a new hard drive in my computer. When I went to authorize iTunes, I was told that I had reached my limit of 5 authorizations. I realized that over the past couple of years, I had authorized several computers that I no longer had. Since I couldn’t authorize [...]
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One of the things I’m asked quite frequently is how to clean the screens of computers and laptops. There are specials cleaning materials you can purchase at office supply stores that will clean both your computer screens and your TV screens. You can also make your own cleaning solution by mixing distilled water (make sure [...]
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. It is illegal to resell or attempt to resell a recalled consumer product.Name of Product: Lithium-Ion batteries used in [...]
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