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Email From Central Intelligence Agency Case Officer – Spam
I received the following email from Evan Archie, a Central Intelligence Agency Case Officer. It's made to sound threatening and involves distribution and storage of pornographic electronic materials involving underage children - and then you get to the part about...
Is Email From scotiabanksec.com Spam?
There are emails circulating from scotiabanksec.com that appear to be from Scotiabank and describe an incoming wire and have an attached Excel spreadsheet. These are definitely not from Scotiabank and are spam emails! Here's a copy of the email received: From: Penny...
Change Outlook Startup Folder to Tasks
Email can be time sucker, you check it up to 36 times an hour. You also tend to think email is important but many times it really isn't. Emails like Facebook notifications, friends, Pintrest, Twitter, etc. Interesting no doubt, urgent maybe, but are they really...
Hurricane Disaster Recovery Plan
It's that time of year again and if you live in coastal regions you need to give thought to protecting business assets from hurricane damage. At the time we write this Hurricane Florence is bearing down on the eastern seaboard or the United States and millions of...
How Do You Know If You Have A Good Password?
How do you know if you have a good password? Hopefully you're not still using your birth date, or phone number, or the name of your dog, or anything that directly relates to you. But how do you know if the password you have picked is good enough, secure enough? Here's...
Turn Off Outlook Adding Events To Calendar Automatically
Office 365 users are being notified that Outlook is now adding events to calendar automatically. I think my main objection with this is that my emails are being reviewed for content, plus I like to choose what I schedule. Here's the notification i received: Stay on...
How To Articles
How To Change Your Facebook Email Back To Your Own
Facebook this morning changed your default email address to be theirs, rather than yours. This means if you send an email to someone it will come from "you"@facebook.com. Check Your Settings - Click on your name at the top right of Facebook to go to your profile. -...
How To Use Bookmarks on the IdeaPad K1
When browsing the Internet on your Lenovo Ideapad K1 you don’t want to have to type the address in for websites you go to often. Here’s how to save your favorite websites as bookmarks: This is an ongoing series of articles on using the Lenovo Ideapad K1: - Using the...
Outlook Out of Office Christmas Message Ideas
Christmas this year is on a Sunday and so many will take maybe Thursday or Friday off, right through to the following Monday off - some much more. New Years also falls on a Sunday and I know some places will be shut all of the Christmas week and probably all the way...
How to Root your Nook Tablet
Four days after its release a root has been provided for the Nook Tablet to turn it into a full Android tablet. The Nook Tablet was released November 16, earlier than originally expected, and probably due to Amazon's Kindle Fire release date. Here's the 6.9Mb download...
Excel Date Changes by Four Years
Why does the date change when you copy cells from an old Excel spreadsheet to a new one? I had a customer with an Excel spreadsheet saved in the Excel 97 format. They opened it up in Excel 2007 and copied the contents to a new spreadsheet - and the date within the...
Windows 7 Temporary Profile Error
If you’re logging in and continually getting the “You are using a temporary Profile..” message then here's how to fix it. Windows is having trouble reading your profile and it is likely your profile registry key has become corrupted. Fixing the temporary profile error...