Every day, another scam. January 9, 2022 Update. New occurrences inserted at the top. Latest scams follow: February 10, 2023: Sur.ly Safest Website scam If you have your own website(s) you my receive this email claiming your website has an award for being one of the safest websites. It offers you a badge to display Continue Reading
Wizard
January 9, 2023
Bad Things in General,Tech Tips,URGENT
Amazon Prime, Applie store, Corel software, crypto-currency, DHL, email scam, extortion, extortionware, Facebook, Geek Squad, Lifelock renewal scam, Lifelock scam, McAfee, Norton, Norton Lifelock, phishing, phishing scam, porn scam, renewal, scam
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Critical Norton / Symantec Security Vulnerabilities What does this mean to you? To set the stage for this discussion I worked for Symantec for 3 years in their TimeLine project management division. Initially in Tech Support I transitioned to marketing a liaison between our engineering department and our Fortune 100 / Government clients in the Continue Reading
Wizard
June 29, 2016
Bad Things in General,Information,Malware, Viruses and Bugs Galore,News,Recommendations,Tech Tips,URGENT
Fortune, google, hackers, malicious code, Norton, project zero, security, Symantec, vulnerabilities
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From time to time I do presentations for local groups and as such I am posting my notes from these events here with useful links and additional information. I am adding some valuable links here that I cannot easily provide during my presentations, along with recommendations for some useful tools to protect your computer and Continue Reading
Wizard
December 4, 2015
Case Histories,Information,Malware, Viruses and Bugs Galore,News,Recommendations,Tech Tips
anti malware, AntiVirus, avast, AVG CloudCare, Bit Defender, Check Point, computer performance, computer security, computer utilities, ESET Nod32. Malwarebytes, F-Secure, Gdata, iBackup, IObit, IRS, Kaspersky, McAfee, Microsoft, Microsoft Security Essentials, Norton, Panda, passwords, scams, sophos, Spybot, trend micro, Webroot
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We Have a Winner! (insert sounds of a slot machine hitting the jackpot here…) Up until now, the hands-down winner for infections in our shop was a Hewlett Packard computer with 34, 363 virus-infected files. This machine, from a 2007 Work Order, had been “protected” by Norton Internet Security, but hijacked and turned into a Continue Reading
Wizard
July 17, 2009
Case Histories,Information,Malware, Viruses and Bugs Galore,News
AntiVirus, AVG, Hijack, infection, Norton, Sysguard, trojan, Trojan Horse, virus, Zombie
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This will be a growing post of little tips and tricks to keep you out of trouble, save you money, save you aggravation, make your computer run better — or all of the above. Let’s start at the top: AOL (AOSmell, AOHell, whatever you want to call it) is one of the worst offenders when Continue Reading
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