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Learn to Protect Yourself Phishing Scams.

According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the nation’s consumer

protection agency, phishers send an email or pop-up message that claims to be from a business or organization that you may deal with — for example, an Internet service provider (ISP), bank, online payment service, or even a government agency.

The message may ask you to "update," "validate," or "confirm" your account information. Some phishing emails threaten a dire consequence if you don’t respond. The messages direct you to a website that looks just like a legitimate organization’s site. But it isn’t. It’s a bogus site whose sole purpose is to trick you into divulging your personal information so the operators can steal your identity and run up bills or commit crimes in your name.


Getting out of DLL Hell.

Microsoft is hoping to end what has become known as "DLL Hell" by building into its future operating systems a system to solve an incompatibility problems with the libraries, which are software modules that can be shared by different applications. Problems typically occur when an application is installed that uses an updated version of a DLL. If that particular is already being used by another application, and if the original application cannot work with the updated library, then the user gets an error message. The Windows operating system and Windows applications have no notion of DLL version numbers, so the problem can be difficult to track down. Until Microsoft allows you are able to upgrade to this magical solution, There are several highly recommended software based solutions as well as several scams. Read out report to learn how to tell the difference.

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12-11-2007

Release of free guide on how to protect yourself against Phishing Scams. Protect yourself from Internet fraudsters who send spam or pop-up messages to lure personal and financial information from unsuspecting victims.

2-16-2008

Report shows the five most common PC problems and how to fix them. Email and Internet problems represent over 50% of all reported issues.

3-08-2008

Preliminary release of ProsoftLabs Registry Cleaner review of 23 leading Software offerings. Our inital finds reveals that many of them dont deliver on their promises.

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