A Good Phish Is Bad to Find
Today, in my Microsoft-hosted email account, I received an email telling me that my Office 365 account needs validation and has been temporarily suspended. I know that’s baloney because I …
How to Recognize a Phishing Email
“Phishing” emails are trying to get you to click on a link and enter your username and password. They may use this approach to steal your credentials for a bank, …
Cat Support
One of my customers sent me this photo of the scene during a remote support session: We were all wondering how long the System Restore was going to take. The …
The End of Windows Server Essentials
You may have heard that Microsoft has removed the Essentials role from Server 2019 Standard/Datacenter but is still offering a Server 2019 Essentials SKU. But did you know that the …
Set the Default Communications Device in Windows 10 1803
If you use a headset for VoIP calls through your PC, you want the headset speaker to be active for VoIP applications and your normal speakers to work for other …
MCB GoldLink, 3CX, and Call Transfers
One of the features of MCB GoldLink to 3CX is to “pop” the GoldMine record of an inbound call received through 3CX. However, users sometimes find that this doesn’t work …
Leave Everything to Us
If you’ve recently upgraded your Windows 10 PC, you may have seen Microsoft telling you during the upgrade to “Leave everything to us”: Kind of reminiscent of the way people …
Careful: LastPass Remembers Generated Passwords Forever
I use LastPass Premium for storing hundreds of online passwords. However I don’t trust it with my most important banking passwords. For those, I use LastPass only to generate a …
Malwarebytes 3 Upgrade Starts Premium Trial
If you’ve been using the free version of Malwarebytes 2 as an on-demand anti-virus scanner and you upgrade to version 3, you may be surprised by warnings that real-time protection …
Database Server Backup to Hybrid Onsite/Cloud FAIL
This is a very instructive nightmare: