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Spotting a Phishing Email

By vccomputerguy Posted on December 5, 2013 Posted in How To, Tech News

Brien Posey has a good article on Tech Republic’s website titledĀ 10 Tips for Spotting a Phishing EmailĀ . All the tips are very good. Don’t get tripped up by the first two tips being a bit more “techie” than you may …

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Excellent how-to article on backing up your computer data

By vccomputerguy Posted on November 25, 2013 Posted in How To, Tech News

PC World has an excellent article today by Jon L. Jacobi on the basics of backing up your important computer information. He covers several options for the backups you should be doing. Then he has some step-by-step instructions on setting …

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Tagged with: Backup, data protection

Lessons from CryptoLocker

By vccomputerguy Posted on November 3, 2013 Posted in Tech News

CryptoLocker is a very nasty piece of a type of software called Ransom Ware. You apparently can get it from opening an attachment in your email related to a fake shipping receipt. There are likely additional ways to get it …

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Tagged with: antivirus

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By vccomputerguy Posted on September 28, 2013 Posted in Blog, How To, Tech News No Comments

It is my goal in this blog to provide comment and links to Tech News and How To tutorials of interest to-and applicable to-home and small business tech users. The Tech News items will obviously be of my choosing and …

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