Got an email this morning from Firefox suggesting an upgrade to Firefox 8.0, and was almost taken in. But on closer inspection I found that it came from Firefoxx.com . This is a more sophisticated version of the scam from a month ago: http://www.coras-it.co.uk/blog/firefox-update-scam/
It was quite appealing, especially the … Read the the full post
A little used feature of most Microsoft Office programs is the ‘Format Painter’ If you have a format for a heading or paragraph (Font, size, colour etc.) which you want to repeat in several other places in a document, or even a different document – the format painter makes it … Read the the full post
BE Warned! It appears that the hoaxers are trying a different approach.
I have just had an email purporting to come from Mozilla Firefox and headed “New UpdateAvailable”. They have never contacted me before, and I was not aware of giving them my email address.
This is the content below – … Read the the full post
A little known feature of Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) is the ‘compatibility button’. The purpose of this button is to display correctly (as the designer intended) web-pages designed for earlier version of Internet Explorer.
The button will be found on the right of the address bar, and look like a … Read the the full post
I had a call yesterday from “Windows Service Centre” from a chap with an almost incomprehensible Asian accent. This was not their first call to me and I that they were an outfit similar to “Quick Resolve”. I allowed the conversation to continue … Read the the full post
Office 365 is the latest ‘cloud computing’ service from Microsoft. It includes many of the
features of Windows Small Business Server; including Exchange for email, and SharePoint which allows you and your co-workers to share and collaborate on a variety of documents. It also includes MS Lync (instant messages, video … Read the the full post
A Introductory look at ‘cloud computing’ – what it is, the benefits it offers to businesses, in terms of cost and for those businesses with home workers or mobile workers. But also be aware of the implications
The spammers are active again; this time it is the old Parcel Delivery one which first cropped up about 18 months ago. I also referred to them in an earlier post
I have had 2 in recent days; the first purported to come from UPS and took the form:
This is an example of the ‘Phone Scam’ mentioned in another post. Some friends of mine fell for the convincing alert to a problem with their PC, and handed over some money. Why do the banks continue to forward money to these people?
In an earlier blog, I gave my opinion on email blacklists (against). One of these is Uceprotect.
This has 3 levels of protection, and at the highest of these (Level 3) it actually has the audacity to include in its blacklist ALL the IP addresses of an internet service provider … Read the the full post
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