Q. I bought an HP envy laptop about a month ago and I want to put antivirus on it. I have been using the windows defender and mcafee just for the month. I don’t want to renew mcafee I have MalwareBytes. I have been using avast on previous machines. Is this an ok free antivirus or would you suggest something else? …
Office Suite Replacements
Of course, MS Office (www.office365.com) is the de-facto standard in Office Productivity software. However, there are some solid FREE replacements out there. Yes – Pages / Numbers on the Mac work fine too – but the truth is that MS Office on the Mac has been upgraded so that it is nearly identical to the Windows version now. Just remember, …
OSX – You don’t have permission to access some of the items
In my IT business, I deal with a LOT of files from various machines – both Windows and Mac. For example, when a customer has drops off a computer or hard drive for repair, backing up the data is one of the first tasks. I simply cannot afford to lose my customers’ data. Now, while I make my living working primarily …
Yahoo Has to Go – and so does AT&T and Bellsouth Email
If you haven’t already heard, Yahoo has had another account breach disclosure. As if allowing access to 500 million accounts wasn’t enough, this time there were 1 billion accounts compromised. Want to know something else cool? The “hack” took place back in 2013, and Yahoo is just now figuring it out and disclosing it. For years, I have been on …
Customer Q&A – Anti Virus
Q. ___ is wanting me to add some sort of virus protection to the computers in the teen area. Do you have some suggestions as to what I should use? A. Just remember that anti-virus software DOES NOT protect you. As I’ve preached before, it is like locking the door to your house. It helps – but doesn’t really stop anything. Even …
Customer Q&A via Email
Every now and then, I have email conversations with customers that I think are worthy of posting on my blog. This is one of those. My responses are in red, and no personally identifiable information is included. Q. My conclusion is that USB ports 1 and 2 are fried – or stewed or roasted – since nothing works in those ports. …
Simone PowerPoint Test
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HIPAA / HITECH Compliance and Encrypted Email
Remember – even without a security breach, all it takes is one disgruntled employee to make a phone call and report violations. The fines are very high. It is much less expensive to put in policies and plans now.
Malware from Bad Ads
Want to know how the malware gets in? Bad advertising and scripting are the MAIN culprits these days. Google employs over 1000 people just to try and fight the problem. Read up and weep. How does this get in? Typically you will visit a normal legitimate website that has ads running. That is most websites these days. The ad network you see …
test video from macbook
Adding to the post from my iphone.