Case Histories
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The Ultimate Anatomy of a Phishing Scam Unveiled
Last week a Man of the Cloth came to me with what he described as being “hacked”. After a thorough evaluation of his computer, I…
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Lenovo Yoga Laptop Repair SNAFU Redux
Task Manager shows there is not a ridiculous amount of resource usage, but the culprit I suspect is Webroot SecureAnywhere. Webroot is a notorious resource…
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The Lenovo Stuck HDMI Connector
This Lenovo Ideapad Flex 5 came into the shop with a short HDMI cable plugged into it. It would not come out. Initial observation indicated…
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Case-History – LaCie Porsche Design Drive Data Loss! + Successful Recovery
transferred one folder at a time so I could keep track of what was left. After 6 solid hours of work, I had almost half…
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Corrupt Samsung SSD Destruction
I started by cutting the drive roughly in half, which revealed the circuit board only occupies a little over half the housing. So I sliced…
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Frozen Drive Screw Solution
It seem like a very high percentage of laptops that come into the shop lately exhibit a litany of bad repair shop techniques employed. This…
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Simple Steps to Protect Your Privacy
Given the Identity Theft is a rapidly growing problem, I thought this seemed like an excellent topic. By this point in time, most of us…
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Your Network Should Not be a Nest
I had the good fortune to oversee some assemblers who were NASA trained. Their level of workmanship was an order of magnitude better than all…
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Roadkill on the Information Superhighway
I originally published this article in Lies Magazine back in 1995, after witnessing the demise of someone I knew, caused directly by his involvement in…
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Don’t Do This To Your Computer
This is a gallery of some of the bad things / conditions / treatment / DIY hacks we have discovered and corrected over 3 decades
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