Mrs. Mecomber's Scrapbook

The folks at DownloadSoftwareHere.com (also know as Softry.com) wanted me to let you know about their new website offering tens of thousands of free software downloads to quickly find and download software you want. I’ve been puttering around the site quite a bit, testing out what they have to offer. A lot of the downloads [...]

I happened upon an interesting post by Staci at Just Bloggled, when she was confronted with a nasty surprise image after opening an email. Staci assumed the email was from a legitimate source, opened it, and got quite a shock. She was very glad the kids weren’t around at the time, either. I’m going to [...]

Gone are the days when you could just connect your computer to your Internet connection and let ‘er rip. Viruses, worms, trojans, and malware are circulating on the Internet, seeking an open door or window (commonly called ports for computers) or an unsuspecting user who will download a file, open an email, or visit a [...]

There’s a very good post I found by Ruhani Rabin about How To Prevent Your WordPress From Being Hacked. It’s got excellent information that every blog writer should know. Here are a few relevant things: Rename the administrative account: You can do this in the MySQL command-line client with a command like View Code SQLupdate [...]

I get a good amount of spam. You probably do, too. UGHHH! I hate it. I HATE the stuff and I HATE hashing through it. It’s also not safe to open it unless you know exactly who has sent it. But sometimes it’s really hard to tell. How do I know for sure that the [...]

I’ve been hearing about more hacking attempts these days. The most notable was the attack on Sarah Palin and her Yahoo email account. That was disgusting, but it goes to show you how quickly and easily some things can be hacked. I try to make my passwords with a combination of numbers, letters, and symbols. [...]