Prevent Outside Parties from Scheduling Your Calendar
Ever receive an email with an Outlook calendar item attached, then find that the item appeared in your calendar without your permission? It turns out that by default, Outlook lets …
Identifying and Avoiding Fake Anti-Virus Programs
One of the biggest threats to your computer comes when you land on a web site containing a fake anti-virus warning. These sites try to trick you into installing a …
Got Backup?
Computer backup is an insurance plan for your data. Like any other insurance, it’s hard to think about when everything is going great, but you sure are glad it’s there …
Help! My Yahoo / Hotmail / Facebook Was Hacked!
In the last few weeks the personal accounts of at least four of my acquaintances have been hacked. As you may have experienced, when your friend’s account is hacked, you …
A RARe Virus Delivery Method
Yesterday I received the following email from someone I don’t know: The unusual thing is the attachment of type .rar. RAR is an archive format not as common as .zip …
Facebook: Scam Central
In the last 24 hours I received two invitations from different Facebook friends to sign up for “events.” Both emails actually came from Facebook, and both included the first and …
Phony Facebook Email
Recently I received a very legitimate-looking email supposedly from Facebook. It wanted me to click on a link to read a message. Even though the visible link text shows the …
Tricky PDF Virus Evades Virus Scanners
On April 27, multiple users at a San Diego client site received emails purporting to come from the “operator” of the email server. The text of the email was written …