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Question from Billie: I upgraded my computer from Windows 7 to Windows 10 and now I’m having trouble scrolling web pages with my mouse wheel.
Scrolling worked just fine with Windows 7. What can I do to make it work correctly in Windows 10? Thanks in advance for your help.
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
Every day I receive emails from folks who have updated their PCs to Windows 10 and subsequently discovered that they don’t like it.
In most of those emails I’m asked if it’s possible to reverse the update and re-install the version of Windows they were using before. [Read more…]
Scammers have been using ransomware to extort money from Windows users for a good while now, but over the past weekend a bunch of unlucky victims were hit with the first ransomware attacks to ever successfully target Apple Macs.
Ransomware works by encrypting the data on a computer’s hard drive, then informing the user that he’ll have to pay a ransom to the hacker in exchange for the decryption code.
In this case the scammers managed to infect version 2.90 of the popular “Transmission” app with the insidious KeRanger ransomware virus. The infected app was released on Friday, and users who downloaded it immediately infected their Macs with KeRanger. [Read more…]
Apple’s Macbook Pro line of laptops has earned the reputation of being rock-solid performers, albeit at a slightly higher price than you would expect to pay for a Windows laptop with the same basic hardware specs.
Every Macbook that has been released was a great machine, and the sleek MacBook Pro MF839LL/A 13.3-Inch Laptop with Retina Display is simply outstanding. Although it comes with a slightly smaller 13.3 inch display, that display is a bright and vivid 2560-by-1600 “Retina” display that is simply a joy to use. [Read more…]
As you probably know, Apple and the FBI are currently waging a war of wills over whether Apple should assist the FBI in breaking into dead terrorist Syed Farook’s employer-issued iPhone.
In a nutshell, Apple’s CEO Tim Cook is fighting a court order demanding that the company work with the FBI to retrieve the data from the phone.
Cook says he believes that creating a “back door” into the phone’s encrypted storage area will make all iOS devices vulnerable to hacking, putting their users at risk of losing their privacy. In my opinion, that’s a dubious claim at best. [Read more…]