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The Way I See It!

I am an Ultra-Conservative, Alpha-Male, True Authentic Leader, Type "C" Personality, who is very active in my community; whether it is donating time, clothes or money for Project Concern or going to Common Council meetings and voicing my opinions. As a blogger, I intend to provide a different viewpoint "The way I see it!" on various world, national and local issues with a few helpful tips & tidbits sprinkled in.

Protect Your Computer Before You Lose the Internet Monday

Computer, Computer Virus, Info, Internet, Malware

News - Infected Computers Could Lose Internet Access Monday

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Mac Malware Getting Worse!

Computer, Computer Virus, Mac, Malware

Infected Mac network may be expanding, not shrinking

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Apple's Macs Get Viruses and Malware Too!

Computer, Computer Virus, Malware, Mac

Mac Users Beware of Malware

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Microsoft Security Patch

Computer, Computer Virus, Internet

Microsoft to releases security patch for shortcut bug

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New Hard Drives to Leave Windows XP Users in the Dust

Computer, MS Windows XP

Hard drive evolution could hit Microsoft XP users 

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Internet Ad Blocking Right or Wrong?

Computer, Internet

Is AdBlock for Firefox Stealing or User's Right?

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A Reason Why We Need the .xxx Domain Extension

Computer, Internet

SEC employees surfed porn as economy fell

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McAfee Anti-Virus Users Beware of Serious Glitch

Computer, Computer Virus

A new update released by McAfee for their anti-virus software contains a false positive that can potentially cause Windows XP with Service Pack 3 computers to not be able to boot up again.  This problem is caused by a false positive for the w32/wecorl.a worm in their 5958 DAT update, which would cause the C:\Windows\System32\svchost.exe file to be mistakenly deleted.  This file is an Windows system file required to start many critical services.  Therefore, once this file is deleted, Windows will no longer be able to start.

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IE9 & XP Will Not Work Together

Computer, Internet

Windows XP users will not be able to run the final version of Internet Explorer 9, according to Microsoft executives, cutting out a decade-old, yet still popular operating system.

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Computer Malware & Virus Writing a Corporate Endeavor

Computer, Computer Virus, Malware, Spyware

Inside a global cybercrime ring

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Another Facebook Virus

Computer, Facebook, Computer Virus

Facebook hit by another version of Koobface worm

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Windows 7 Nice but Not Helpful to the Police

Computer, Police, Safety

Microsoft Windows thwarts police efforts to cut child porn

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Expect Many Tough New Spyware Infections the First Week of April

Computer, Malware, Spyware

Each year, the first week of April brings an increase in spyware and malware infections. 

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Internet Explorer 8 Links Missing and Slow Tabs

Computer, Internet, Info, IE

You may have noticed after upgrading to IE8 that your links folder in Favorites is missing and it is now replaced with Favorites Bar.  Now you cannot just copy the favorite’s folder to backup.  You must use the Export feature in IE.

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How do I hook my Facebook account to Twitter?

Facebook, Computer

Search for the application Twitter in your FB search box.

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Attention Internet Explorer 6 Users Google Phasing Out Support

Internet, Computer, Info, IE

Google phases out support for IE6

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Computer User Beware of Microsoft Update MS 10-015 and BSOD

Malware, Computer, Spyware

Microsoft Patch Conflicts with Some Malware to Cause Blue Screen of Death Crash

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Computer Users Beware of Ransomware

Computer, Info, Safety, Spyware

This new type of attack on your computer will encrypt your files and require you to pay them to decrypt them.

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Mac Snow Leopard Users Beware

Computer, Info, Mac

Apple acknowledges Snow Leopard data loss issue

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Get Microsoft's Anti-Virus Free Today

Computer, Info, Tips

Get Microsoft’s Anti-Virus Free called Microsoft Security Essentials free just download here: 

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August Computer Tidbits

Computer, Tips, Mac

Mac flaw could let hackers get scrambled data

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July Tech Tips - Adobe Users Beware & More

Computer, Info

Hackers may slip through hole found in Adobe tools

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Excellent Anti-Spyware Software

Computer, Info, Spyware, Malware

I have review many anti-spyware software on this blog.  All very good.

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Computer Quick Hits

Computer, Info

Compound Touted as Possible Successor to Silicon in Computers

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Security Alert for Adobe Reader and Acrobat users

Computer, Internet, Info

 

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Can't Open The File Attachment

Computer, Email, Cudahy, Info, Tips

While at the Neighborhood Watch last month, a few people said they could not open the Word Document or Excel Spreadsheet for the crime stats.  This was puzzling because they could open the ones before. 

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Interesting Computer Things

Computer, Fun, Info, Tips

Alterative Search Engine

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Beware Computer Virus Striking Macs

Computer, Mac

A virus designed to target Mac computers has been detected in the wild.  The virus, called 'iBotNet', first came to the attention of computer security firms at the start of the year and infected at least several thousand machines.

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Is Your Computer A Zombie?

Computer, Info, Tips

Be warned more problems April 1st.

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