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Cyber crooks are spitting out vast amount of spam, using an alleged video of Obama making his victory speech. The fake video first surfaced on Wednesday and is slmming the Internet with this infected email. The email actually contains a virus that can steal your identity and also any stored information on your computer system.
According [...]

For the past three days running, I have been receiving fake Newegg notification messages which look like the one below:
GreetingsGood day,
Thanks for you order.
BFG Tech GeForce GTX 280 BFGEGTX2801024OCE Video Card - Retail - $58
You can check you order status at the folowing link:
http://newegg.com/order.php?li=xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Best regards,
NewEgg Shop Support.
So far the messages have stated [...]

I have only bought one item from Best Buy, which was a plasma TV I purchased last November. The main reason I bought the unit was price, price and price. They were having a Black Friday super sale, plus I had a 10% off coupon they honored, which made the deal even sweeter.
So I was [...]

A Portland, Oregon family was in a shock when received their phone bill from AT&T. Seems that their son was on vacation in Vancover, Canada and was using his laptop with an Aircard to send photo’s and emails to family members. There was just one small problem. Since he was out of the U.S. he [...]

It seems that the HR department at Aflac needs a tutorial in sending out emails. It recently sent emails to 623 people who were applying for jobs at the company. There is just one minor problem. All of the 623 names were in the TO: field. Heh Aflac? Has anyone heard of the BCC field? [...]

Google keeps track of the email virus attack stats through their Postini data centers. Needless to say, email spamming is on the increase. We have been hearing about spam and viruses being on the increase for ever. We have also heard that one day the entire Internet will collapse under the weight of spam. But [...]

The folks over at Microsoft have a new blog that they call E7 for short, in which they will be providing information for the next version of  Windows 7. It is a welcome relief to know that a blog dedicated to Windows 7 is available and hopefully this may just keep the rumor mill to [...]

Yesterday I did an article about Carbonite and an alleged email that was sent from the company to a blogger. [See article here.] After posting the original article I received a comment from David Friend, the CEO of Carbonite who took issue with the article. He states that the email purporting to be from Carbonite [...]

Over at Direct2Dell they have announced a new series of business laptop computers that Dell says are going to knock our socks off. After reading some of the specifications, especially the extended battery life [19 hours], these new machines could change the way we lappy users do business. On the light side is the 12″ [...]

Over at the Google Gmail blog, they describe how to use encrypted email from your Gmail account. It appears that a user can opt in or out to encrypt their mail. As noted on the blog, encrypting may slow done the email process. Google also states that:
We care about your security today just as much [...]

Edward “Eddie” Davidson, 35, the man better known as the ‘Spam King’ ,walked away from a federal prison in Colorado. Davidson had been previously convicted of sending thousands of unsolicited emails that attempted to solicit people to invest in questionable stocks.
According to the Rocky Mountain News the article states:
According to Lakewood police Tuesday, Davidson apparently escaped [...]

Touted as the world’s oldest blogger, Olive Riley of Australia has died in a nursing home at the age of 108 years old.  After a film was done on her ventures in blogging, Olive had maintained a large following on her site. According to a news article it stated:
In her last post, she wrote fondly [...]

Yahoo is adding additional email services, one to be called ‘ymail.com’. As many of us are aware, over the years millions of people got yahoo mail addresses as secondary addresses to try and filter junk mail away from their primary email address. Many of these accounts may be dormant, or rarely used, but the [...]

Since the introduction of AVG 8 Free Edition, many people have been posting the problems that they have encountered using the latest edition. I am not discounting that these problems are real, or that this new edition is not problem free, but AVG does have an extensive FAQ section that may just help in [...]