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Since thousands have found me for the first time in the last 24 hours (thanks Glenn) one point to mention concerning my remote tech services.
All of them are currently offered on eBay via the link to the right. You can save a few buck by using that link if you end up winning the bid. Full descriptions of what and how I do things are listed there. I’ll be putting up posts explaining them off and on over the next few weeks.
Last week I was working on a customer’s system and was showing them on of the most useful sites on the net. www.sysinfo.org.
You can use sysinfo to look up items in MSCONFIG and determine if there are items that you don’t need. Even more importantly these days it can tell you if the item with the right sounding name is the real thing or no.
A lot of virus’ put items in your MSCONFIG that have identical or near identical names to legit apps (ccApp comes to mind). It will give you the hints to tell you if you have the real thing or no.
This remains one of the 10 most useful sites on the web. Bookmark and use it.
Actually every time of year is scam time but with tax time approaching and various stimulus programs being talked about its a good time to think about the many online scams out there to nail you One example:
Economic Stimulus Payment Scams
Perpetrated via a phishy email or a fraudulent phone call, these scams capitalize on confusion surrounding the federal government’s economic stimulus package. By now you probably know that you may be getting a stimulus payment in the coming months but may not know how or when the payment will arrive. Potential victims of this scam are told that they’ve qualified for their stimulus “rebate” and are asked to provide their bank account number to receive the payment electronically. In reality, you won’t have to do anything more than file a federal tax return to receive your payment, and the IRS will never call or email you about the economic stimulus payment.
The Cyberstreetsmart site is a good one. Go there and read the whole thing. If you are a person with a kid about to enter college check out their phony scholarship section here.
Don’t forget to take their IQ quiz to see how much you already know.
I’m mentioned the tech services I offer through eBay but I haven’t explained them in any detail on the blog. Over the next week or two I’ll list each product and detail it. Remember if you have need of any of them you can contact me through comments and we can arrange to get things started…
Is your system just clunking along? Did you last clean your temp files before the Sox on the series in 2004? Let the DaTechguy remotely connect to your system from here in Boston and tune it up.
What I will do: (more…)
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