The only thing worse than popups is corrupted popups or Notifications. I’m referring to the ones from my anti-virus program, Avast. Here’s what pops up if I go to a site with something suspicious on it. There used to be an X in the top […]
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The last week or so, when I opened up Opera, I would get a security warning concerning a website it blocked named laqur.check-stat.com. I checked online but couldn’t find out much about the site. I went to the Opera forum to see what other info
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Earlier today one of my clients contacted me because he couldn’t access outlook.com via the Edge browser to check his webmail. I ended up connecting to his computer remotely through Windows 10’s Quick Assist app– what a great app this is for people such as
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I was in the browser options in Firefox and I noticed a blue link across the top: Your browser is being managed by your organization. These messages usually mean some kind of restriction has been put in place. But by whom and why? It turns
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I was working on someone’s Windows 10 laptop that kept going to a BSOD Critical Process Died. I couldn’t get into Safe Mode and the Reset options wouldn’t work. All the built-in options from Windows: Startup repair, SFC, DISM, system restore, and chkdsk– none worked.
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If you want to download videos and are concerned about the software and what is bundled in it, here’s a more secure way to do it. One commenter in a previous article suggested using Avast Secure Browser, so I decided to try it out. Avast Secure
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Opera, Avast, Avira The Opera VPN drama never seems to end. If it was a paid program, I would have dumped it a long time ago, but just recently my system developed another problem– my antivirus program kept giving me an error every time I
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I have been an Avast Free user for some time and am overall quite satisfied with the level of protection afforded, suffice to say that I can’t even remember the last time my machine was infected. One of the features included with Avast is the
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Avast has just released the latest version of its free antivirus software. Existing Avast users can update to Avast Free Antivirus 2014 from within the program… right click the Avast icon in the system tray and select Update, then Program. With a much reduced download
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There is no doubting that Avast Free is one of the most popular anti-virus programs out there, in fact statistics suggest that it is the most popular. However, it is quickly becoming apparent that when this latest version was released it may not have been
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