Archive For The “internet safety” Category
These days are certainly different days of the past.
In the past we took everything to the highest level of precaution to avoid giving away our personal information . We refused to give up our date of birth, our names of any sort, and we kept our images to a minimum. In fear of identity theft.
Stay away from shady areas, don’t just give out private information, and make sure your security and defense is up to date. The internet is pretty safe, unless you are just goofy and think everyone has great intentions.
You think your profile on Facebook is set safe and private.
Have you ever made a friends request to someone and they did not add you to friends but you see their posts all of the sudden? There is a reason for that. Facebook puts you in as a subscriber to that person, by default, because you requested their friendship. So, how do you keep people from subscribing to your posts?
It seems that one of the viruses that I reported in one of my previous posts, that obtained on my computer at work, has been bit by the Leap Year Virus 2012.
We live here. In a wonderful country of freedom and openness. Where the people speak their mind and the press has the freedom to report the truth and anyone can create a movie or a song and get it seen. Where no one’s rules govern us and we do not govern anyone else, since we [...]
You will not see me going to that website. I know better. Anyone notice that the “Stop Sign” commercials have stopped? And then replaced with that veri what ever? My personal computer will not have my clean pc installed on it. No magic elixir. You can’t rub oil on your head and make your friends [...]
Now… Since the virus runs as a spin off of an old virus that has been floating around, the fix is similar for each version of windows it was created for so here is the fix for the windows 7 version of this virus
But after about 6 hours of freaking out hoping the boss does not see. I get my computer restored
Here’s what I used to resolve the issues I faced because of the fake system restore virus. Pictures included.
