New Airline Ticket Virus Email
Today I received an email supposedly from American Airlines with an Zip file attachment: If you open the zip file, you’ll see what looks like a Word document: However if …
“We Are Going to Sue You” Virus Spam
A new spam email warns that you will be sued—for sending spam! Don’t worry about being sued, but do worry about opening the attachment that purports to be a scanned …
“We Are Going to Sue You” Virus Spam
A new spam email warns that you will be sued—for sending spam! Don’t worry about being sued, but do worry about opening the attachment that purports to be a scanned …
Free Laptop Anti-Theft Tracking
This is pretty cool: preyproject.com. You install a small piece of software on your laptop or phone. If you lose the device, log in to the Prey web site and …
Anatomy of a Hacked Web Site
Today I visited www.dmachoice.org, the web site of the Direct Marketing Association, intending to update my opt-out preferences. I was surprised when one of the pages took me off their …
Cyberheist Not the Bank’s Problem
I’ve recently become aware of a legal case where a company lost a huge amount of money due to a computer virus. Hackers used the virus to steal the company’s …
Rework
Just finished a great little book called REWORK. About 100 pages of nuggets on how to run a small business, especially a small software company. Many of the suggestions are …
The Next Scam: Tech Support Calls You
A user contacted me yesterday telling me, “I just got a weird call from someone with an Indian accent saying his company had been getting error messages and they wanted …
Copy Outlook Signatures to New Computer
Need to copy your Outlook signatures from one computer to another? Just copy the contents of this folder: %appdata%\Microsoft\Signatures That %appdata% code will expand to the correct name for XP, …
Invoices Reformatted by QuickBooks 2010 R11 Patch
When you install the R11 update in QuickBooks 2010 Pro, you may find that all your custom invoices suddenly have an extra, blank box at the bottom. This is because …