Remember in the old days when we were told to completely drain and completely charge our batteries for longest life? That’s not true any more. In fact, the opposite may be. Li-Ion batteries, like the one in your laptop or cellphone, seems to have a shorter lifespan if they are deeply discharged. So charge early, [...]
Get your Office 2010 upgrade now – maybe free
On October - 4 - 2010
If you purchased, installed, and activated a qualifying Microsoft Office 2007 product between March 5, 2010, and September 30, 2010, you are eligible to download Office 2010 at no additional cost. Check out the details to see if you qualify, and if you do, get this done before the end of October. Upgrade page Eligibility [...]
Fake Antivirus – don’t be fooled
On February - 27 - 2010
Microsoft’s Security Essentials, which you can get directly from Microsoft at http://www.microsoft.com/Security_Essentials/ seems to be a pretty good anti-virus program. But be warned there is a fake program with a very similar name making the rounds. The fake one is called Security Essentials 2010. Avoid that one. If in doubt, don’t download from a link [...]
“How did my computer get infected?” Acrobat Reader!
On February - 17 - 2010
We used to fear floppy disks for transferring viruses and other nasties to our computers, then emails, maybe USB sticks, even web sites. According to rather thorough report at ZD Net, Malicious PDF files comprised 80 percent of all exploits for 2009, due to flaws Adobe Acrobat Reader. Essentially that means that most infections that [...]
