The Fraudsters are at it again! I had a call yesterday from “Windows Service Centre” from a chap with an almost incomprehensible Asian accent. This was not their first call to me and I that they were an outfit similar to “Quick Resolve”. I allowed the conversation to continue and pretended to be ignorant. The usual…
Updated – for information on how to report fraud scroll to the bottom) A senior citizen couple whom I know were phoned the other day by a company called Quick Resolve; although initially they introduced themselves as ‘Windows Maintenance Department” or similar (see Phone Scam). They stated that my friends’ computer was infected with a virus;…
More Memory gives new lease of life. One problem which clients frequently complain of these days is a slow running PC. On examination the situation is one of insufficient memory (RAM*). These are generally older PCs running Windows XP, which shipped with either 256MB or 512 MB of RAM. This was adequate in the early…
A sledgehammer approach to the Spam problem Spam or unsolicited email is an ongoing problem for Internet users. However, there is one solution to the problem which causes much grief to ordinary and innocent users. These are the various ant-spam blacklists used by many ISPs and other organisations or businesses who run mail-servers. Innocent Users…
