New special!! From now until April 8 (the day XP dies), bring your old XP system and a new PC and I'll knock 25% off the service charge of a new PC setup+data migration. I'll do what I can to get the new machine as close as possible to your old one to minimize the…
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Download sites and “awards”
Next time you're thinking about downloading software and are swayed because it has won awards, remember this.... (Not gonna click? A fellow wrote a program called "AwardMeStars" that does nothing whatsoever and it won awards) http://successfulsoftware.net/2007/08/16/the-software-awards-scam/
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Scientists create malware that communicates using sound, no network required
Kind of scary but this is only proof of concept (meaning possible but not currently happening). Worth noting a max range of ~19m but verrrry slow transmission speed (but a username+ password+ bankname would be verrry little data to send). http://www.engadget.com/2013/12/03/audio-malware/
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Sympatico modem/routers having issues with power adapter
I was in the Bell store this week swapping out my phone. While in there, I overheard one of the staff telling a customer that there has been a known issue with the Sympatico modem/router's power adapters. I asked her after about this and she's been swapping about 30 a day over this problem. SO,…
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