Tech Alerts

Websites, Text Message Auto-Subscriptions Can Cheat Your Cell Phone Bill

Sat Feb 7, 2009 09:19 am admin

ALERT! http://www.myiqquiz.com/c266 — DO NOT GIVE THEM YOUR CELL PHONE NUMBER! This unwanted popup can override your popup blocker. The popup changes the size of a new browser window and adjusts the size of the […]

Anti-malware-scanner.com: Fake Malware Scanner Site Brings Popup to Mac and Windows

Thu Feb 5, 2009 07:27 am admin

While antimalware.com’s malware Antivisus2009, etc probably cannot affect Macs, it is best to avoid any risk by using the COMMAND-OPTION-ESC key combination to effect a FORCE QUIT of Safari when a malware scanner popup appears. […]

Report from Chicago: MySpace Begins AMBER ALERT Notices on Member Home Pages

Tue Apr 22, 2008 11:13 am admin

MySpace has begun posting alerts on member home pages. The home page is the private page where members get their …

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High Tech Cheats: How to Cheat On School Exams

Fri Mar 7, 2008 10:08 am admin

So if this person is going into the medical field, they might be very prepared to cheat Medicare and insurance …

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TV Digital Convertor Box Available at Electronic Stores, Best Buy

Sat Mar 1, 2008 06:22 am admin

WISN.COM report on Insignia NS-DXA1 Digital TV converter box available at Best Buy.

In February 2009 over the air signals …

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BlackBerry RIM Outage Monday over North America

Mon Feb 11, 2008 10:53 pm admin

BlackBerry devices all over the US and Canada experienced a major service outage, that affected all service providers Monday.

A …

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RIAA Wants Ripping Compact Discs to be an Illegal Act

Tue Dec 11, 2007 10:38 pm admin

Converting music CDs to audio files on a computer is unapproved and therefore illegal, according to the Recording Industry Association …

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Danger E-Mail Outage Causes T-Mobile Sidekick Trouble

Wed Nov 7, 2007 07:27 am admin

November 6-7, 2007, T-Mobile service representatives are reporting that Danger, Inc. is working to resolve an e-mail outage. The outage …

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MacBook, MacBook Pro and Mac Mini Seagate Hard Drive Failure Reported

Tue Nov 6, 2007 02:07 pm admin

Read/write drives equipped in some MacBook, MacBook Pro and Mac Mini models are apparently malfunctioning in some Seagate hard drive …

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OSX.RSPlug.A Trojan Horse on Porn Sites Eventually Cause Redirect to Malicious DNS Servers

Wed Oct 31, 2007 02:29 pm admin

OSX.RSPlug.A — a trojan horse on some porn sites — falsely claims to install a video codec necessary for viewing …

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Best Settings for Export of iMovie to YouTube

Fri Oct 19, 2007 12:19 pm admin

If you use a frame rate that is too high when you export iMovie for use on YouTube, the picture …

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Apple Mac Mail Users Experiencing Outages: Mail Asks for Password

Fri Oct 12, 2007 10:17 am admin

Some .Mac users are unable to access Mac mail—both on the web and through the Mail application Thursday, October 11 …

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Blogware Down and Silent: Internet Attack or Internal Technical Problem?

Wed Sep 12, 2007 01:37 pm admin

Blogware, the blog hosting service provided by Tucows, Inc. of Toronto,
Canada has experienced serious outages for almost the past …

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Fooled by Fake Caller ID! Any Phone Can Spoof Your Caller ID with New Websites

Tue Aug 14, 2007 11:32 am admin

Imagine getting a call from a caller ID that reports that your bank or credit card company is calling — …

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ErrorSafe.com Pop-up Window Shows Up on Macintosh Running Safari

Sun Aug 5, 2007 08:14 am admin

An ErrorSafe.com popup window appeared on a Macintosh computer running Safari while visiting the weatherunderground.com website.

The window popped up …

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