By Richard Medugno One of the amazing things about the Internet Age is that you can learn something new virtually every time you log on. Recently, I found out about trolls – people who post inflammatory messages in online communities just to get other unsuspecting people upset. According to Wikipedia, these characters and this misbehavior called…

 By Vic Hargrave “I want to hide my next Facebook post from certain friends on my list.  How do I do that?” — Jim Hi Jim, thanks for your question. Although Facebook doesn’t support Circles ala Google+, you can still get close to that functionality by creating a Facebook “list” or by using the following…

By Jennifer Burns Not only is it important to protect your computer, it is also important to have it running smoothly. Sometimes it feels like I have too many files on my machine. So many that I worry that files are almost taking it over! You’ll be happy to hear that Trend Micro™ Titanium™ Security has…

 By Vic Hargrave Hey, Vic, my WordPress-based blog site on WebHosting hub was hacked on Sunday, Sep. 25.  When I try to click on my “Dashboard” to add posts, I get the screen shown below.  How can I recover my blog? This past weekend the hacker who calls himself Tiger-M@te and claims to be based…

 By Vic Hargrave “How do I know that the Trend Micro firewall booster is working?  It’s ticked on the interface so I assume it is on. But the XP Security Centre just says that the Microsoft firewall is on and doesn’t mention the booster. Also, I have a Dell support centre interface which reports on…

 By Vic Hargrave Fake AV malware is nasty stuff. It’s harder to get rid of then freshly chewed gum stuck to the bottom of your shoes. Worst of all Fake AV can extort money from you if you believe its phony security scans and then pay it to get rid of nonexistent threats to your…

By Richard Medugno There are some fringe benefits that come naturally when you work for a security software company – one of them is free security software! Duh. Okay, it’s not like working at the Ben & Jerry’s ice cream factory in Vermont where employees get to take home a pint of ice cream every…

By: Vic Hargrave Your best bet is to remove all your previous AV software manually through your Windows Control Panel. If you run into problems installing Trend Micro™ Titanium™ Security before getting rid of your old antivirus software, check out this Trend Micro Knowledgebase article for help: http://esupport.trendmicro.com/solution/en-us/1058894.aspx Got a security question?  Ask Vic I work…

By: Vic Hargrave Fake AV is a form of malware that masquerades as an anti-virus application running on your system. You can pick up Fake AV when you accidentally browse to malicious websites that host the malware. When Fake AV executes, either in your browser or as a regular application, it pretends to run a…