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As you probably know by now, Microsoft designed Windows 10 and Windows 11 to be quite intrusive when it comes to your privacy.
By default, the operating system collects all sorts of sensitive user data and stores it on your PC’s hard drive and/or sends it back to Microsoft via the Internet.
Luckily, most of Windows’ “spying” can be either mitigated somewhat or disabled completely if you know where to look for the various settings. [Read more…]
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Like many laptop owners, you probably put your machine into sleep mode every time you shut the lid to transport it to a new location.
But if you constantly find yourself having to deal with a low battery, there is a better way. Hibernate your laptop instead! [Read more…]
The data you protect today might become vulnerable tomorrow. Organizations worldwide store sensitive information with the assumption that current encryption methods will keep it secure for decades.
Medical records, financial transactions, government communications—all rely on cryptographic protocols designed in an era before quantum computing became a reality.
What happens when machines powerful enough to break these protections become widely accessible?
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I’ve been receiving questions from folks who are confused about the terms Real-Time and On-Demand in regards to antivirus protection, so I thought it might be helpful to explain the difference between them here.
Both real-time and on-demand antivirus protection are important for keeping your computer free of viruses and other forms of malware, but while they are closely-related, they operate in very different ways. [Read more…]
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You probably know how to print important emails to create a hard copy record of the correspondence, but here’s something you might not know…
You can also save emails as PDF files and then open them at any time in your default browser or PDF viewer. [Read more…]