Mrs. Mecomber's Scrapbook

That‘s gotta hurt. Dell has inadvertently shipped replacement motherboards for its PowerEdge servers that are infected with the Spybot worm. The malware affects servers running Windows, but not other operating systems. The worm can be triggered if users run an update to either the Unified Server Configurator (USC) or 32-bit Diagnostics on the server. According [...]

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Nielsen Research. All opinions are 100% mine. … and at least they TELL you they are monitoring your activity… unlike some OTHER gargauntuan googly companies who roam the streets harvesting your wireless data and storing it all in their databanks, who also *happen* to [...]

This is very interesting news from Clark Howard today: Employers monitor your social networking profile Are the Facebook posts and Twitter tweets you make while away from the job immune from the prying eyes of your employer? The New York Times reports that new software called Social Sentry is ensuring everything you do online is [...]

Ya gotta wonder. A few years ago, there was news that Chinese-made Maxtor/Seagate hard drives sold in the UK and U.S. were infected with malicious trojans. From what I recall, the Chinese shrugged and said “oopsie.” Now there’s news that the Chinese are installing malware and distributing computer accessories with purposeful security holes. United Kingdom’s [...]

I got the following in my email from Clark Howard e-zine: RIP-OFF ALERT: We’ve gotten several calls from listeners complaining about being ripped off while checking out at many otherwise legitimate Internet selling sites. Typically, our callers report seeing a message during checkout asking if they’d like to save X amount of dollars on their [...]

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Coldwell Banker. All opinions are 100% mine. Wow! I wish they’d had these tax credits available when I purchased my home. It’s a great time to be a home buyer– with the housing market in a slump, property prices are very low, and people [...]