Archive for March, 2010

Spring PC Cleaning

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

Experts estimate that 59 percent of computers worldwide are infected with malware.  In many cases the PC owner is not even aware of the infection.  An untreated PC virus can lead to poor performance or even data loss.

Is your PC running slow?

Are you concerned that your PC may be vulnerable to viruses?

Now it is a good time to do some PC spring cleaning.

Click here to contact TechAdvocate Solutions for a PC Spring Cleaning.

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Facebook Email Password Scam

Saturday, March 20th, 2010

Beware of a fake email that claims to be from Facebook and asks you to open an attachment to receive a new
password.  This email is potentially harmful. Delete it from your inbox.  The attachment contains a password stealer that targets Windows computers and which can potentially access any username and password combination used on the computer, not just the login credentials for Facebook.

According to McAfee Labs this is the sixth most prevalent piece of malware targeting consumers.

Here’s how a phony email may look:

Here are few clues that this is a phishing scam.

  • Facebook doesn’t send e-mails like this. It may send an e-mail with a link where the user can reset the password, but not an e-mail with an attachment.
  • The e-mail has poor grammar and awkward phrases. For instance, Facebook is not capitalized in the salutation.
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Laptop Liquidation

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

Now is a great time to buy a laptop.  Prices are at epic low levels.  Here is one laptop deal that made me drool.

Dell Latitude D630 HBDPJF1 Notebook Computer – Intel Core 2 Duo T7100 1.8GHz, 1GB DDR2, 80GB HDD, DVDRW, 14.1″ WXGA, Windows XP Pro (Off-Lease)

$419.99

Click here to order

If you live in the Atlanta, GA area TechAdvocate Solutions has a PC setup service.  Just go to the following website and fill out the very short form:
http://www.techadvocate-solutions.com/contactus.php
We will email you instructions on where to ship you new PC.  Setup includes:

  • Downloading all the latest security patches
  • MS Office Professional 2003 with updates
  • AVG antivirus
  • Firefox browser
  • Adobe Reader
  • Latest versions of Flash and Java
  • Most up-to-date version of iTunes

All at a very reasonable price!

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