It all began back in 2001 as a financial advisor set me on the path to running my own tech support business. That first year was rocky and it would be well into the second year by the time I hooked up with Yourtechonline.com. For six years I serviced international…
Category: Internet Safety
So How Strong is Your Password Anyway?!
Did you hear the one about the guy who got locked out of his bank account? You did? Oh ok, hope it wasn’t you. . . You see, bloggers are writing about password safety again since LinkedIn and a few other sites recently had their lists of usernames and passwords…
AVG Offers FREE Rescue CD to AVG Free and Full Purchase Customers
http://www.avg.com/us-en/avg-rescue-cd#tba2 Various situations involving a PC that could nolonger boot, have come across my desk over the past 12 years, sometimes due to boot viruses, sometimes due to other reasons that mess up the boot sector of the harddrive, and I have found myself coaching clients to find their OS…
The New Wild Frontier. . .
It’s not so new really, but it seems new to many people who are discovering for the first time that they aren’t as safe online as they thought they were. PC World and other journalist magazines out there that chronicle what is happening in IT circles on and off the…
C is for Cookies
C is for Cookies, that’s good enough for me. C is for Cookies, are they really safe? Um, no! That’s not how that song goes! Of course cookies are safe! I bake them every Christmas! No one’s died eating my cookies yet! What are you talking about?! There is a…
Three Strikes Your Out!
Baseball season is big business in the US. I don’t follow the game much, but I do know a little about it. There are two teams, an umpire, and one team plays the field while the other team goes up to bat. Three strikes and you’re out. The computer world…