So, my wife was using her laptop one day to look up a word. She Googled the word and was taken to a dictionary site of some kind. Up pops a warning message saying her computer was infected and that she needed to run some scan or something. Not knowing that she was about to be taken by a classic “bait-and-switch” scam, she clicked it. Laptop = infested with...

Situation: You’re going to upgrade your primary hard drive to something bigger, better and faster – however the primary hard drive is obviously what holds your operating system. So now you’re faced with a choice.Reinstall the operating system on the new drive and reinstall all your apps. Use drive imaging software to copy everything from the...

My primary browser is Mozilla Firefox v3.0.1. The reason I champion that particular browser over others is because it has the most plugins available. If there is anything on the internet that can be done in a browser, chances are it will happen in Firefox first. Plugins, while a blessing, can also be a curse. As cool as it is that you have tons of nifty add-ons...