It still surprises me the number of people that get taken by these types of spam emails, normally leading to malware installs, identity theft or other annoyances of life in the digital age. For me I hardly ever click on links in an email if I'm not expecting the email from someone already in advance. […]
Great Marketing Strategy Nag Screen From Avast
09/05/2019 By Leave a Comment
When's the last time you were impressed and surprised by a company's marketing strategy towards you? I'll admit it. If there's a free piece of software that works for me I will use it. And use it, and use it, and then some! I used Microsoft Defender and Windows Security Essentials for forever as my […]
Beware Siri: How Hackers Attack Smartphones
10/22/2015 By Leave a Comment
Until recently, your smartphone has been a private place. Your apps, personal information, and contacts, were all safely stored within a locked screen. However, hackers never sleep. There is always someone, somewhere, hard at work on the next big breakthrough. And now hackers have it. In order to avoid becoming a hacker's next victim, you've […]
Beware of the Trojan Horse
09/29/2014 By Leave a Comment
There’s an awful lot of malware doing the rounds on the Internet and some of the most active and malevolent of these are the Trojan horse programs. They cause anywhere up to 90 percent of all malicious assaults on web users’ computers. Greeks bearing gifts A Trojan horse, or Trojan, will trick you into inadvertently […]
How to Identify Hacked Email Links
07/28/2013 By Leave a Comment
I don’t know how many times I get emails from family and friends that have received emails themselves where they clicked on a link and it took them somewhere they didn’t want to go, or they ended up getting some kind of malware or virus installed on their machine. I receive emails like these myself, […]
