Both the FBI and the Federal Communications Commission have recently warned people about the dangers of “juice jacking”. It’s having malware installed on your phone by using a public access charging station. Here’s how to avoid it happening to you and an examination of whether it’s actually a real threat or not…
However obsessive you are about keeping your Mac system lean and fast, unneeded files creep up and steal space, extensions stick around after you need them and utilities fall behind the update cycles. The Mac has its own cleanup that happens behind the scenes, but you can accomplish a lot more with CleanMyMac X from MacPaw. I tried it out and here’s what I found…
Hey Dave! My techie friend told me the other day that my phone can get malware by plugging it into an airport charging station? If I’m just getting power, how can that adversely affect my phone?
I know how to delete stupid and spammy comments from my Facebook posts in a Web browser. Can I do the same from the Facebook Mobile app on my phone?
There’s a tiny shield icon on my Win10 TaskBar with an orange exclamation mark on it and when I hover over it the system says I’m due to run a “quick scan”. What’s this all about?
I noticed that there’s a green arrow that’s shown up on the right side of my address bar in Chrome. Since I have had lots of problems with malware and viruses, I don’t want to click it. How can I figure out what it means or get rid of it?
After what happened to my local school district’s computers, I’m terrified of getting hit with a ransomware attack. How can I defend myself in Windows 10?
My daughter installed a program called PC Pitstop on my PC, but I don’t really know how to use it. Can you offer a quick how-to, please?
