Friday, October 3, 2008
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Nice offer
I received this e-mail this morning, 10/2, and it appears that the offer ends on 10/4. Further, it looks like an Office Depot only offer. However, I consider this a good enough offer to inform my readers. This machine would satisfy the needs of most of my customers. It is not a high-speed, top-of-the-line machine, but has a pair of Intel 2.2 GHz microprocessors, 3GB of RAM, and a nice-size 320GB hard drive. It also comes with a 19" LCD display!
All in all, this is a nice machine that will satisfy many users out there. I have 2 Acer laptops, and they are doing better than I ever thought they would!
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All in all, this is a nice machine that will satisfy many users out there. I have 2 Acer laptops, and they are doing better than I ever thought they would!
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Phishing
With credit tightening and all the talk about a financial crisis, it is especially important that we all remain vigilant and not fall for any phishing scams. What is phishing?
"The act of sending an e-mail to a user falsely claiming to be an established legitimate enterprise in an attempt to scam the user into surrendering private information that will be used for identity theft. The e-mail directs the user to visit a web site where they are asked to update personal information, such as passwords and credit card, social security, and bank account numbers, that the legitimate organization already has. The Web site, however, is bogus and set up only to steal the user’s information."
The above definition is from http://www.webopedia.com.
"The act of sending an e-mail to a user falsely claiming to be an established legitimate enterprise in an attempt to scam the user into surrendering private information that will be used for identity theft. The e-mail directs the user to visit a web site where they are asked to update personal information, such as passwords and credit card, social security, and bank account numbers, that the legitimate organization already has. The Web site, however, is bogus and set up only to steal the user’s information."
The above definition is from http://www.webopedia.com.
Monday, September 29, 2008
AVG Free
This might be helpful to those of you who do not yet have AVG Free Anti-virus. A former student wrote last week:
"Hi Tom,
Hope all is well with you. My Norton expires today and I thought I would install AVG security which you said was free. I found AVG security in two places but there is a charge for their services. Maybe I'm in the wrong pew. Can you give me a clue. Many thanks."
My reply:
You can download AVG Free Version 8 here: http://tinyurl.com/4e7jxt
After you download it to your desktop but before running it, I recommend that you download and run the Norton Removal Tool. You can get it here: http://tinyurl.com/3xdxhl
The reason for the Norton Removal Tool is that regular Add/Remove of Norton does less than a complete job and has been known to even fail.
After uninstalling Norton, install AVG.
"Hi Tom,
Hope all is well with you. My Norton expires today and I thought I would install AVG security which you said was free. I found AVG security in two places but there is a charge for their services. Maybe I'm in the wrong pew. Can you give me a clue. Many thanks."
My reply:
You can download AVG Free Version 8 here: http://tinyurl.com/4e7jxt
After you download it to your desktop but before running it, I recommend that you download and run the Norton Removal Tool. You can get it here: http://tinyurl.com/3xdxhl
The reason for the Norton Removal Tool is that regular Add/Remove of Norton does less than a complete job and has been known to even fail.
After uninstalling Norton, install AVG.
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