You know all the commercials about how second-hand smoke are bad for people? Got these from a colleague online. Owners smoked at their computer for years. I've dealt with a few PCs like this over the years and they're next to impossible to get clean (and you don't want to pay for the per-hour that…
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MS Security Essentials antivirus missed 39% of viruses.
If you've been running Microsoft Security Essentials as your antivirus, you should absolutely replace it. MS has so much as said they plan their AV to be a bare minimum and not much else. When it was new, it was testing very well but has been slipping consistently. I used to be an advocate of…
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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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Opt-out of Google’s ads
You may or may not have heard but Google is planning to incorporate users info into their ads. Obviously, they are getting some negative feedback about this, and rightly so. To OPT-OUT, click the link below and, even if the checkbox at the bottom of the page is unchecked, I would recommend using the Save…
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