With the holiday shopping season upon us, caution may be in order when it comes to the electronic toys that many of us will give and receive. As strange as it may sound, you might want to run a virus scan on that digital photo frame that you’re planning to give to...
Almost three years ago, I wrote a column titled, “Get What You Pay For – And Deserve.” This article outlined the disturbing trend of major computer manufacturers refusing to provide an actual disk copy of the Windows operating system software with new computers...
Wouldn’t you like to be able to speak to your computer and have it obey your every command? You may recall the movie Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, in which the crew of the Starship Enterprise is transported back to the 20th century. While visiting a scientist’s...
A few years back, while at the Defcon computer security conference in Las Vegas, I attended a meeting where the subject of “e-voting” was discussed. The “e-voting” concept includes the use of computerized electronic voting machines, as well as the idea of voting, not...
I’ve seen more customers over the past few weeks with horribly virus-infected computers than I have over the past few months. Maybe the bad guys have released a new wave of “smart” viruses; I don’t know. I do know that most PC users have been lulled into a false sense...
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