by Shane Grantham | Jul 5, 2017
A few days ago I installed Linux Mint 18.1 on a laptop which originally had Microsoft Windows 7 as the operating system. The installation went pretty well with the video, network. mouse touchpad and sound systems all working. Today, I went to use the laptop and the...
by Shane Grantham | Jun 29, 2017
I have a Dell laptop which was having hardware problems these past two days. When it was powered on, it would try and start Windows 7, fail and then freeze during the repair procedure. I tried running the Dell built-in diagnostics with the F12-key as the computer was...
by Shane Grantham | Jun 28, 2017
My security product of choice is Comodo Internet Security for Windows and Linux computers. During installation of Comodo, it prompts the user to let it change the browser’s home page to Yahoo. If you do nothing, it gets changed so the installer has to click the...
by Shane Grantham | Jun 23, 2017
We all get fake(phishing) email messages and today I wanted to investigate one I get on a regular basis. It’s supposed to be from a company I formerly did business with so I was curious to see what it was about. I don’t typically open suspicious email...
by Shane Grantham | Jun 22, 2017
My smartphone gave a warning this morning that an application tried to access something it shouldn’t have. An investigation began and I opened up the list of applications(apps) to see if anything looked suspicious, On my Android I opened Settings -More...
