Computer Technology

We seem to be the local dumping ground for old computers. Anyone who gets a new computer tends to give us their old ones. So a friend of mine said to me last week, all excited-like: Oh I have a laptop for you. Imagine my joy! The one thing we don't have, and haven't had. I waited in anticipation for my laptop. Oh the visions I had: during hurricane season and … [Read more...] about Vintage computers – Toshiba T1000

And I'm not talking the $250 kind either. It seems the NSA has been putting persistent cookies on folks computers. Claims the software came that way: Don Weber, an NSA spokesman, said in a statement Wednesday that the cookie use resulted from a recent software upgrade. Normally, the site uses temporary, permissible cookies that are automatically deleted when users close … [Read more...] about National Security Administration and cookies

Just got an email about a new trojan exploit- Exploit-WMF, affecting the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer on Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003, exploiting the Windows Metafile vulnerability. Apparently; the google desktop thingy will index it and it … [Read more...] about Trojan Exploit – Exploit-WMF

This is not a good week for computer repair - for anything computer it seems. I wonder if the moon is void-of-course?? Yup. Check this out. Moon went void: Fri Dec 16 7:34 PM To Sun Dec 18 9:19 AM Moon enters Leo At approximately 7:30 pm, SO's computer went south. I mean it's gone. Harddrive is shot. B dropped his computer off on friday night around 8:30 to be … [Read more...] about Not a good week for computer repair

I've never seen it before: e-gold logo www.e-gold.com* *e-gold** System announcements* Dear e-gold User, In accordance with our major database relocation, we are currently having major adjustments and updates of user accounts to verify that the informations you have provided with us during the sign-up process are true and … [Read more...] about New phishing scam – Or maybe it’s old