Blue Screen errors never have phone numbers

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.

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

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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Win10 changes for Win8 users

Win10 changes for Win8 users
  Much of the previous post doesn't apply to Win8 users but, if you'd like to read it, you'll find it here. The Start menu is back!  Perhaps the average user's greatest complaint about Win8, the missing Start menu will be returned but will be supplemented with the presence of tiles that were found on…
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