In my last blog post I mentioned that Norton Live Update wasn’t working on my Windows Vista laptop and the recommended solution — uninstalling and reinstalling Norton — was unworkable. Thankfully I’m now able to report that I found a work-around for the problem, although other issues exist that I won’t bore you with on [...]
The previous post, which was password protected, offered my newest product at an extremely low price. The time period for that special ended about 25 minutes ago.
For the next 168 hours or so, I’m going to be offering the recording and transcript of a 90 minute call that Willie Crawford and I did on computer [...]
I thought it might be fun to take a picture of what my desk looks like as I work towards my upcoming product launch:
Believe it or not, everything you see in that picture serves a purpose and I can tell you what it is and why it is there. Yes, that includes the bottle of [...]
There has been a new round of emails (with Valentine’s Day “love” themes) making the rounds lately.
IF YOU RECEIVE AN UNEXPECTED EMAIL, DELETE IT. NEVER CLICK ON A LINK IN AN UNEXPECTED EMAIL, EVEN IF YOU RECOGNIZE THE SENDER.
With that STRONG disclaimer out of the way…
One particular Storm Worm email I received today touched my [...]
Willie Crawford will be interviewing me TODAY (Wednesday, January 16, 2007) at 5:00 PM Eastern Standard Time. The topic will be computer and website security.
This is a free call (long distance charges apply); we are not charging for access to the call.
To register and get the call details, go to the following link:
http://therealsecrets.com/ComputerSecurity/.
Hope to be [...]
I just did another spam slap. And I thoroughly enjoyed this one because the friggin’ spammer threatened me.
At the bottom of his email, he wrote this:
You are receiving this message because* you have either joined my list from a link on my website or you have sent an email to my autoresponder.
The only way to [...]
Mike, I just received an email from you asking me to click on a link to verify that my email isn’t spam.
While I appreciate the fact that you signed up for my blog announcement list, I can’t click on that link. This blog makes me money, which makes it a commercial blog, so the emails [...]
I haven’t done a review of the spam in my spam folder lately and it seems like a good day to poke a bit of fun while (hopefully) helping you to better recognize it yourself and protect yourself from potential scams.
First off is an offer to enlarge something. Actually, it’s an offer to shrink my [...]
Blogs making trackback comments to my blog from a .info domain name.
Domain name registered on October 13, 2007.
First blog: Posted a trackback to my blog on October 20, 2007 — seven days after the domain is registered. It’s post number 5,336 on that blog (and they are using WordPress).
Second blog, same domain (different sub-domain): Posted [...]
One final closing post for my blog-a-thon before it hits midnight here in Central Germany…
If you are looking for a comprehensive, step-by-step plan to improve your computer security, I recommend "The Hacker’s Nightmare" by Bill Hely. Bill is an accomplished computer consultant in Australia. I love his book (it’s the book I would have written [...]