| To: goldworldnet who wrote (97019) | 6/19/2017 3:39:28 AM | | From: FJB | | | | | I replaced a wireless router recently with one which was dual-band. I was having trouble connecting at the edge of my house, so I put the old one back and connectivity was restored. Keep the same network name/password when you replace wireless routers, because it saved me a bunch of headaches. |
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| From: locogringo | 6/19/2017 8:58:54 AM | | | | | | Off Topic
A new (and creative) phishing scam for me today.
"A 200$ gift card was purchased on your account at Amazon from an unknown computer or phone and will be issued in seconds. If this not you please cancel immediately." Underneath was a pretty blue box to click on to cancel the purchase. I almost did it. Went to Amazon instead. No activity and no report from any credit card company that 200$ was charged.
The placement of the dollar sign warned me. I'm sure that pretty blue box would have installed something exciting! |
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| To: locogringo who wrote (97024) | 6/19/2017 9:09:22 AM | | From: steve harris | | | | The placement of the dollar sign warned me. I'm sure that pretty blue box would have installed something exciting!
A lot of things wouldn't get installed, even if you clicked on it, if people would stop surfing the Internet as administrator or having administrator privileges...
jmho |
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| To: locogringo who wrote (97026) | 6/19/2017 9:22:42 AM | | From: steve harris | | | | What's the fast and easy way to prevent that?
You create another user on your computer. And give it "limited" privileges. Or if your current user is not administrator but has administrator privileges, you can simply change it to limited without losing the user's particulars.
Leo covers it better, good and bad
ask-leo.com
Most of the complaints you'll hear is that the limited account cant do anything! Well, that's why it's safe surfing the Internet..... |
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| To: locogringo who wrote (97024) | 6/19/2017 9:54:07 AM | | From: Eric L | | | | Pop-Up Scareware ...
Not much gets by my combination of Norton Security Deluxe and Malwarebytes Premium but this one did a few weeks back. It opened in a new Firefox window rather than a Firefox tab ...
A simple right click on the corresponding item in the task bar plus [Delete] got rid of it, never to reappear.
>> Escaping the Scareware Alert
J. D. Biersdorfer
The New York Times | Tech Tip
MARCH 27, 2017
nytimes.com
Q. I sometimes get obviously fake virus alerts invading my desktop browser, but the only option to make the box go away is to click the O.K. button — which I am afraid to do. Where do these things come from, and is there an easier way to get out of this besides shutting down the whole computer?
A. Fraudulent virus messages have been popping up in browsers and other parts of operating systems for years, and Windows users are not the only people getting them. The false alerts can be triggered by clicking on a malicious link, mistyping a web address that leads to a scammer’s site, landing on a page running malevolent scripts (or hosting poisoned advertisements) and other actions.
Even if a scareware alert pops up, you can dismiss it without rebooting your whole computer — just forcibly quit the browser program. On a Windows PC, hold down the Control, Alt and Delete keys to open the Task Manager app, select the browser from the list of running programs and click End Task. On a Mac, press the Option, Command and Escape keys, select the browser in the list of programs and click the Force Quit button.
If your browser is set to remember open tabs when it closes, decline the offer to open them again when the program starts. If the pop-up returns right away, going into the browser’s settings and clearing the recent history and cache may flush out lingering traces of the fake alert; resetting the browser to restore it to its original vanilla state is a further step.
Maintaining a real, regularly updated security program on your computer can keep general malicious code at bay. Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, Avast and AVG are among the companies that offer free basic security software for Windows and Mac systems, with the option to move to a more full-featured suite for a fee.
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