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How to Detect Sophisticated Email Scams

How to Detect Sophisticated Email Scams

The way they work is to provoke a response in the way of contacting the scammer, usually by phone. The most common is some form of sending an invoice for goods or services not ordered, and almost always impersonating a well-known company.

In this post, I’ll show you an easy way to avoid most of these scams.

jmowry November 3, 2022November 3, 2022 Uncategorized Read more

What’s the Scoop with Starlink?

What’s the Scoop with Starlink?

Lots of people have been asking me what I know about Starlink now that the beta roll-out is in motion and some in our community are now actively trying it out. My short answer has been, “not much”, since that’s

jmowry May 15, 2021January 10, 2023 Uncategorized Read more

Be Careful Using FaceApp to Generate Old-age Photos on Social Media!

In other words, what does “free” really cost you, and how does “free” pay for all the expensive hardware to run it? This is the question we should all ask ourselves of any “free” service, whether it’s FaceApp, Facebook, Youtube, Android, Google, Twitter, etc. And unfortunately, the answer isn’t always so easy to figure out.

jmowry July 17, 2019July 17, 2019 Uncategorized Read more

See What Customers Say About Us!

We’ve added a new page of customer comments regarding our services, and are truly grateful for the best customers in the world!

jmowry June 24, 2019June 24, 2019 Uncategorized Read more

Windows 7 End of Support Notifications

Users of Windows 7 may have noticed a new message this morning that support will be discontinued January 14, 2020: Don’t worry, there’s no need to panic. This doesn’t mean that Windows 7 will no longer function on this date,

jmowry April 18, 2019April 18, 2019 Uncategorized Read more

Update on Computer Health

I’ve previously written on keeping your computer healthy, and now see the need to update (and revise) what I’d written before. My previous recommendation was to run Avast Internet Security, but in recent months Avast seems more intent on up-selling

jmowry March 7, 2019March 7, 2019 Uncategorized Read more

Has Apple Become the Largest Toy Company in the World?

This will be controversial, but I see some interesting things going on in the world of computing. Those of us who use computers as tools to accomplish real-world working tasks—and especially in the workstation realm—probably already know of Apple’s fall

jmowry June 6, 2018June 6, 2018 Uncategorized Read more

Avoid Tech Support Scams

If you receive a phone call or pop up in your browser from anyone claiming to be from Microsoft technical support (or ANY other tech support) or security service, please do not speak with them.  Microsoft has even posted an

jmowry May 31, 2018 Uncategorized Read more

Got Windows 10 on a Limited Data Plan? There’s Hope!

Many who have spoken to me in the past know I’m not the biggest fan of Windows 10.  It’s incredibly snoopy.  And this snooping comes with the cost of high data usage.  No big deal if you have unlimited broadband

jmowry April 3, 2017 Uncategorized Read more

Organize Your Email in Thunderbird Using Filters

After checking the Internet for a ready-made tutorial on how to do this, everything I found made this task more difficult than it needs to be.  So—here’s a simple way to create filters within Mozilla Thunderbird to automatically filter your

jmowry January 20, 2017 Uncategorized Read more
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