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		<title>Fake LinkedIn Emails</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today’s suspicious emails supposedly come from LinkedIn. They look authentic, but the links actually take you away to bogus and potentially malicious web sites. 
  
How to tell? Without clicking, hover your mouse over the link. A little popup should show you where the link really points to, i.e. what web site would open [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mcbsys.com/blog/2012/02/fake-linkedin-emails/</link>
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		<title>New FedEx Virus Email</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in November, I wrote about an airline ticket virus email. Now it’s FedEx:&#160; today I received this email supposedly from FedEx with a zip file attachment:

If you open the zip file to see the “invoice,” you’ll see what looks like a a PDF file:

However if you go to Windows Explorer and uncheck “Hide extensions [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mcbsys.com/blog/2012/01/new-fedex-virus-email/</link>
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		<title>Reduce US Bank Fraud with Check Card Alerts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On December 24, I received an email from US Bank informing me that a purchase had been made the previous day about two thousand miles away using my VISA debit card. I logged on to my online banking account and saw that two more fraudulent transactions were pending.

I immediately called US Bank’s fraud department and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mcbsys.com/blog/2012/01/reduce-us-bank-fraud-with-check-card-alerts/</link>
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		<title>New Airline Ticket Virus Email</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I received an email supposedly from American Airlines with an Zip file attachment:

If you open the zip file, you’ll see what looks like a Word document:

However if you go to Windows Explorer and uncheck “Hide extensions of known file types,” you’ll see that it is actually an executable file:

Don’t run it! That means don’t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mcbsys.com/blog/2011/11/new-airline-ticket-virus-email/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;We Are Going to Sue You&#8221; Virus Spam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new spam email warns that you will be sued—for sending spam! Don’t worry about being sued, but do worry about opening the attachment that purports to be a scanned document. It’s actually a known virus. The email contains at least one language error, but it’s one that is easy to miss. More info on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mcbsys.com/blog/2011/09/we-are-going-to-sue-you-virus-spam/</link>
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		<title>Free Laptop Anti-Theft Tracking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is pretty cool:&#160; preyproject.com.
You install a small piece of software on your laptop or phone. If you lose the device, log in to the Prey web site and change the device&#8217;s status to Missing. The software will capture a screen shot, webcam shot, geographical location (using GPS or WiFi triangulation), and a bunch of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mcbsys.com/blog/2011/09/free-laptop-anti-theft-tracking/</link>
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		<title>Anatomy of a Hacked Web Site</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I visited www.dmachoice.org, the web site of the Direct Marketing Association, intending to update my opt-out preferences. I was surprised when one of the pages took me off their site to a third-party page. When it happened a second time, I started looking for signs that the site had been hacked.
 Clue #1:&#160; Random [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mcbsys.com/blog/2011/06/anatomy-of-a-hacked-web-site/</link>
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		<title>Cyberheist Not the Bank’s Problem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve recently become aware of a legal case where a company lost a huge amount of money due to a computer virus. Hackers used the virus to steal the company’s online banking password, then proceeded to transfer out over half a million dollars. When the account was empty, the bank advanced over $200K of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mcbsys.com/blog/2011/06/cyberheist-not-the-banks-problem/</link>
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		<title>Rework</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just finished a great little book called REWORK. About 100 pages of nuggets on how to run a small business, especially a small software company. Many of the suggestions are about keeping the product and the company lean, minimizing distractions, and getting work done. 
I was inspired to suggest a paragraph for the section on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mcbsys.com/blog/2011/06/rework/</link>
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		<title>The Next Scam:  Tech Support Calls You</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A user contacted me yesterday telling me, “I just got a weird call from someone with an Indian accent saying his company had been getting error messages and they wanted me to go on the computer and have a technician walk me thru steps.” She did exactly the right thing:&#160; “I refused and hung up.” [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mcbsys.com/blog/2011/05/the-next-scam-tech-support-calls-you/</link>
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		<title>Copy Outlook Signatures to New Computer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Need to copy your Outlook signatures from one computer to another? Just copy the contents of this folder:
%appdata%\Microsoft\Signatures
That %appdata% code will expand to the correct name for XP, Vista, or Windows 7.
Another way to get to that folder from Outlook is to go to Options &#62; Mail Format Ctrl-click on the Signature button. That’s explained [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mcbsys.com/blog/2011/04/copy-outlook-signatures-to-new-computer/</link>
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		<title>Invoices Reformatted by QuickBooks 2010 R11 Patch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When you install the R11 update in QuickBooks 2010 Pro, you may find that all your custom invoices suddenly have an extra, blank box at the bottom. This is because Intuit, without your consent, reformats all your invoices so it can display a link to its Intuit Payment Network:

Here’s how to turn that off.

Update April [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mcbsys.com/blog/2011/04/invoices-reformatted-by-quickbooks-2010-r11-patch/</link>
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		<title>Consolidate Multiple Accounts in Outlook 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Outlook 2010 allows adding multiple Exchange accounts. But what if you want to save all mail in a primary account, but still send mail from secondary accounts? With some help from Microsoft Partner Support, here is a workaround.

You can consolidate mail from multiple accounts into one primary account with a few Outlook rules. Note that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mcbsys.com/blog/2011/04/consolidate-multiple-accounts-in-outlook-2010/</link>
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		<title>Prevent Outside Parties from Scheduling Your Calendar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever receive an email with an Outlook calendar item attached, then find that the item appeared in your calendar without your permission? It turns out that by default, Outlook lets anybody in the world add items to your calendar as “tentative” appointments, whether you agree or not. I got instructions from Microsoft support on how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mcbsys.com/blog/2011/01/prevent-outside-parties-from-scheduling-your-calendar/</link>
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		<title>Web-Enable Your Custom Software Application</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Are you using custom software to run your business? Perhaps an older Access or FoxPro application? Or maybe some Excel spreadsheets with custom macros? Ever wonder about converting that to an application that could be accessed as a web site, but still look like a local application?
Or maybe you have data that so far [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mcbsys.com/blog/2011/01/web-enable-your-custom-software-application/</link>
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		<title>Identifying and Avoiding Fake Anti-Virus Programs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the biggest threats to your computer comes when you land on a web site containing a fake anti-virus warning. These sites try to trick you into installing a program that is actually a virus. Sometimes these programs will encrypt files on your system, then charge you money to unlock them. But what does [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mcbsys.com/blog/2010/12/identifying-and-avoiding-fake-anti-virus-programs/</link>
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		<title>Got Backup?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Computer backup is an insurance plan for your data. Like any other insurance, it’s hard to think about when everything is going great, but you sure are glad it’s there when you need it.
Also like insurance, there are lots of factors to consider and lots of potential solutions.
So why do you need backup, exactly? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mcbsys.com/blog/2010/09/got-backup/</link>
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		<title>Help! My Yahoo / Hotmail / Facebook Was Hacked!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the last few weeks the personal accounts of at least four of my acquaintances have been hacked. As you may have experienced, when your friend’s account is hacked, you start getting emails that appear to be from them, but which actually contain some kind of spam.
How Did They Hack Me?
If email is coming from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mcbsys.com/blog/2010/09/help-my-yahoo-hotmail-facebook-was-hacked/</link>
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		<title>Web Site Grader Rates Your Web Site</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ A colleague referred me to this cool tool for rating web sites:&#160; www.websitegrader.com. The tool evaluates your site on the basis of of several criteria:&#160; blog, links, metadata, domain age, traffic rank, etc.
MCB Systems’ site, created in-house using WordPress, rates 95 as of this writing.
How does your web site rate?
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		<link>http://www.mcbsys.com/blog/2010/09/web-site-grader-rates-your-web-site/</link>
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		<title>Free MCB GoldPop Program Loads GoldMine Record from 3CX CallerID</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve recently changed my in-house PBX from Linux-based PBX in a Flash to Windows-based 3CX. One of the cool things about 3CX is the included 3CX Assistant, a call manager that runs on each user&#8217;s PC. Not only does it show who is on a call, it has built-in functionality to pop up the caller’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mcbsys.com/blog/2010/09/free-mcb-goldpop-program-loads-goldmine-record-from-3cx-callerid/</link>
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