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Comcast and “Recover deleted (email) items”

May 3, 2014 by admin Leave a Comment

If you login to comcast.net to check your email, you are familiar with deleting messages.  You are also familiar with emptying the Trash folder.  However, are you aware that your messages are NOT always gone?

There is a new option when you click on the down arrow next to Trash – it says “Recover deleted items.”

If you do not like this feature, please call to complain to Comcast, and reference ticket number CR368095734.

Filed Under: Becoming More Secure, Software

Windows 8.1U – update by May 17

April 20, 2014 by admin Leave a Comment

“If you have Windows 8.1, you have a little less than a month to install Windows 8.1 Update, or you will miss out on future security updates.

“Microsoft announced a fairly large update for the most recent version of its Windows operating system, with the unoriginal moniker “Windows 8.1 Update” (Win8.1U), as part of its April Patch Tuesday release last week. Users who download and install the update (or have updates installed automatically), don’t have anything to worry about. They will continue to receive security updates going forward. Users who don’t install Win8.1U will not be able to install future patches from Microsoft. If they attempt to install the patch anyway, they will receive a message stating the update is “not applicable.”

“Failure to install Win8.1U will prevent Windows Update from patching your system starting in May, Microsoft warned.”

The full release from PC Magazine can be found at http://securitywatch.pcmag.com/software-patches/322773-users-must-install-windows-8-1-update-now-biz-get-a-reprieve

Filed Under: Computer Industry News, Software, The Responsible Computer User

Malware on Android Phones

December 4, 2013 by admin

Another Times blog wrote that the US government publicly released a document warning about security issues on Android phones.  This includes all HTC and Samsung phones.  One of the vulnerabilities included texting, whereby secret charges can be made to a user’s phone bill.

Filed Under: Beware! Scams, Threats, and Vulnerabilities, Computer Industry News, Hardware, Software, Virus & Virus Protection

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