Stuck screen pixel? Give this website a shot

A stuck pixel is a bright dot of colour that fails to update when neighbouring pixels change. Stuck pixels are most noticeable when the rest of the screen is black. JScreenFix can repair most stuck pixels in less than 10 minutes. If a spot on your screen doesn't change when it's supposed to; if it's…
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Blue Screen errors never have phone numbers

Bad guys are getting more and more clever.  Saw this today on a tech forum - came up on a client's computer shortly after booting up.  While I wouldn't expect the average user to be able to decipher a blue screen error, the key point here is that Microsoft has never and will never include a telephone…
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Still using uTorrent? Reconsider.

I regularly see uTorrent on client's computers - it's software used to download files (often TV shows or movies but can be other legitimate media).  I'm not judging. uTorrent, though, has started bundling in a new feature called "Epic Scale" which will use your CPU in the background to generate BitCoin currency for the authors.…
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New Facebook scam

The short version of this is that some users will get a message claiming that they have to verify account information or risk having their account deleted.  Fairly standard threats and fairly standard in that 1) the grammar is usually poor and 2) links do not point to Facebook.  IF Facebook ever needed you to…
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