"Can You Hear Me?" the person on the other end of the phone asks. Your automatic response is "Yes", which seems simple and harmless. Now with a new phone scam that is traveling around the country, your harmless answer might cost you hundreds of dollars. The Can You Hear Me?...
Totally 100% Fake Scareware
If your screen should pop up with a something similar to the picture above, the best thing to do is PRESS THE POWER BUTTON, turn off your computer and call Mad Dog Computer at 503.922.1599. Clicking on anything on the screen in an attempt to close the messages may infect...
Back Up Before It Is All Gone – New Ransomware Threat
RANSOMWARE THREAT IS BACK! After an absence of 2 months, the CryptoWall ransomware threat is back! CryptoWall 3.0 started appearing on Monday 1-12-15 and is a sophisticated ransomware threat program that encrypts the victims' files making them unusable and non-recoverable. Users are instructed to pay the equivalent of US$500 in...
AVG Free Antivirus – How to reactivate it back to the Free Version.
Where did my AVG Free Antivirus product go? Did you accidentally get switched over to the paid version of AVG and want to get back to the FREE version? Mad Dog Computer can help with that. One thing you should be aware of with the AVG Free Antivirus is that AVG...
What is the Heartbleed bug?
What is the Heartbleed bug? This “bug” is not a virus or malware. The Heartbleed bug is a security flaw that was discovered in OpenSSL encryption that is used on almost every website on the internet to encrypt their data. It is not just affecting individuals, or certain targets, but...
Computer Backup, Backup, Backup…New RansomWare will take away everything!
You Can't Have Enough Computer Backup Files! It has always a good idea to make a computer backup of your information (and backup and backup) but now, more than ever, it is a necessity. A new RansomWare package called CryptoLocker will encrypt all of your personal files on your computer...
The Trade-Off: Sacrificing Internet Security for Convenience and Privacy for Popularity
Every day when I look at the news I am bewildered by the contradictory nature of society. On one hand, we pay for things like LifeLock, Anti-Virus software, firewalls, encryption and software that makes us anonymous to provide Internet security for our information and to protect our privacy. We use paper...
Malware Protection Recommendations
WE RECOMMEND THE FOLLOWING AS A MINIMUM to keep Malware (MALicious softWARE) from getting on your computer: When ADOBE tells you there is an update to their software, put it in immediately (usually takes less than 5 minutes.) When JAVA tells you there is an update to their software, put it...
Anti-Malware Instructions for the Mad Dog Protective Suite
Anti-Malware Instructions for clients to help protect their computers. Due to AVG's newly disclosed sales of information gathered from your computer, effective October 2015, we are recommending the Kaspersky Internet Security product instead of AVG Free and will be upgrading all of our clients who subscribe to one of our...
Security secrets that might help you thwart the bad guys.
You already know the basics of internet security, right? You know to keep your antivirus program and patches up to date, to be careful where you go on the Internet, and to exercise online street-smarts to resist being tricked into visiting a phishing site or downloading a Trojan horse. But...