by Brian Haines | Oct 14, 2014 | Computers
Originally posted on PCMag.com (http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2424175,00.asp#comment-1633904157) I have been using AVG Free for home computers for more than a decade. Reasonably good anti-virus, but as with all the others in this lot, save for MalwareBytes, not...
by Brian Haines | Feb 25, 2014 | Computers
If you are new to Google Chrome and having trouble with simple things like Copy and Paste this might help. First, everyone should learn some very basic computer shortcuts for the Copy and Paste commands. Windows and Linux users of any browser will find that if they...
by Brian Haines | Nov 15, 2012 | Computers
Okay, don’t trust your phone. I just heard of a problem where a printer manufacturer (a big one) had their phone system hacked and the calls were diverted. It happened multiple times over a few days. The people who answered pretended to be support for the big...
by Brian Haines | Oct 26, 2012 | Computers
Windows 7 vs. Windows 8 If you are thinking about buying a new laptop you couldn’t have picked a better time. With a new Windows version shipping soon retailers typically want to unload all the systems preloaded with the previous operating system (OS). This...
by Brian Haines | Jul 12, 2012 | Computers
I know of more than a dozen email addresses that were hacked into since the beginning of the year. Most of them @bellsouth.net, @yahoo.com, @hotmail.com, @live.com, @gmail.com and @aol.com (since BellSouth uses Yahoo! they are really the same). I wonder if people...
