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Tuesday, June 28, 2011 at 6:25PM Take note of HTTPS: in your address bar, especially when engaging in online banking, email and ecommerce. A new article has been posted explaining how HTTPS: works. Required reading if you want to be safe on the Internet. Article is located here.
Tuesday, June 28, 2011 at 6:13PM Finally a problem that is stumping the local tech guy. How to restore a corrupt bios on a Dell Mini 10 netbook. Digging through many forums have come up with many possible solutions. Some involve a USB floppy drive, some involve shooting the nearest Dell Tech Support Member. If anyone has a solution, let me know, lol! Help!
Wednesday, June 22, 2011 at 12:18AM Do you have a rewards card for the local grocery store, and for Dick's and GNC and Barnes and Noble and ..so on...? Well check out www.justoneclubcard.com. At this site you can consolidate up to 6 Rewards Cards onto one double sided card. Eliminate all those cards in your wallet/purse!, finally
Tuesday, June 21, 2011 at 1:13AM It took almost 3 years to go from Firefox 3 to 4, now it's about 3 months and we are on to version 5. I installed it and took it on a test drive. To be honest, nothing much has changed, although I am sure everything important in the upgrade is "under the hood". Upgrade.
Tuesday, June 21, 2011 at 1:04AM So many people, so many virus infections. What to do? I think I will start recommending Sandboxie for some of my customers. Opening your Internet Browser in a sandbox can rid so many users of those "accidental" infections (opening that strange email, downloading that pirated data, etc.). Sandboxie opens your browser or any other program you want, in a sandbox. Essentially, it is isolated from your system and only changes can be made on your direction. So when you download that file, you can open it in the sandbox. If it's malicious, simply exit the sandbox and everything in it disappears as well. If the file is safe, simply direct the sandbox to release it to your computer as normal. Sounds so simple, but for most novice users it may be confusing, but at this point, it may be necessary to educate many on this point.
Tuesday, June 21, 2011 at 12:30AM Recently, the online web dating site beautifulpeople.com was hit with a virus attack. Why, well it may have something to do with the recent decision to dump 30,000 members from the site because they were.....too ugly. Yes, in order to join, you must submit a picture and the current members decide if you are beautiful enough to join. Apparently, one of the rejects took it personally and struck back. Good for you! (Disclaimer, I do not recommend the use of a virus attack as retribution for a wrong, although I would profit from the act)!