Disc rot is when a CD or other disc becomes degraded and corrupted. Once disc rot strikes, the affected disc may skip and stutter, prevent recall of some of its files, or outright just fail to work. If you have anything important stored on CDs or DVDs (or floppies!), here’s what you should think about: … Read more
Meta will take anyone’s money, if they want to pay for ad-space on Facebook. And that’s a problem. Because the scammers of the internet have no problem ponying up a little cash, if it gets their scams in front of thousands of people. Last year, I blogged a bit about this, and in this post, … Read more
Buying or selling items through the internet, with other individuals, can be risky. Think about your safety. It’s not just that you want to avoid scammers, but also steer clear of other crime. Robbery or worse. For local sales that involve a face-to-face meeting, you may want a location that is safer than your front … Read more
A customer recently shared this targeted phishing attempt with me, and I want to walk you through it. As phishing goes, it’s a bit more sophisticated than usual. Check out the details so you’ll be ready to sidestep this if it comes to your inbox. More Tailored than Other Scams I mention “targeted” because the … Read more
Your home internet service is similar to a nice car or running water — you rely on it, you take it for granted, and if it ever cuts off, suddenly the whole family is in a pickle! I can’t help you plan for every household emergency, but here’s some food for thought about your internet … Read more
The latest wacky text to make the rounds is about some Powerball jackpot that a Good Samaritan wants to give away. This Lottery Winner smishing scam should be obvious to most. I hope you don’t fall for it! This scheme is just a remix of that classic chain letter, from the Nigerian King who wants … Read more
For all of 2025, there’s been a lot of concern about the future of Windows 10 and its updates. I’ve blogged about it a couple of times, and now people are finally getting to opt-in and keep their Win10 PCs safe for another year. And I must assure you — in most cases, it is … Read more
There’s been a lot of news lately about “Google issuing an alert advising 2.5 billion users to change their passwords.” And you didn’t see me blogging about it, because it simply wasn’t true. Around the globe, news media companies chose to be inciteful, not insightful. And I knew this reporting wasn’t quite right, even when … Read more
Downloading Facebook videos, to save and safeguard on your computer, is not easy. You are welcome to right-click on a photo, and use ther Save As function to sock that away. But Meta doesn’t want you to abscond with a video file. If you try the Save As trick, you’ll wind up with a confusing … Read more
For anyone on a Windows 10 computer who also uses TurboTax Desktop software, I have some bad news for you. It looks like next year, the TurboTax Desktop 2025 software will require Windows 11 to run. TurboTax Desktop 2025 will refuse to install on a Windows 10 machine. So Windows 10 / TurboTax software users … Read more