We're about to enter the holiday shopping season headlong, and while vigilance is always important when you're shopping online, scams and such always seem to get worse during the colder months of the year. ... Read More

Imagine this: I'm standing before you, waving a wad of cash. I am willing to buy your laptop, as is, right now. And I don't just get the hardware. I get everything on it. Your baby pictures. Your unfinished screenplay. Your emails from your boss. ... Read More

In case you're not part of the lovesick teen-promise ring set, the second film in the Twilight series, New Moon, arrives in theaters this Friday, and its slobbering audience is desperate for any kind of taste it can get of the wildly anticipated movie. .. Read More

Talk about horrifying: A growing trend in the computer malware world involves viruses and other exploits that turn your PC into an unwitting haven for child pornography. ... Read More

It was perhaps the worst thing about Windows Vista: User Account Control, which created incessant and constant pop-ups every time you did just about anything, blanking the screen briefly, then coming back on, dimmed, asking, "Are you sure you want to Read More

Install your Windows Updates. Update your antivirus software. Scan your system regularly. Keep religious backups. It's all good advice -- and it's advice that I give to readers on a near-daily basis.And maybe it's all Read More

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How do you get a jaded computer user to fork over money when he's already wise to spam come-ons and other digital scams?Scare him into it. ... Read More

Rohan James Wyllie of Australia doesn't sound much different than your average voyeur intent on capturing a little secret video of his female roommate unawares. ... Read More

Man, those killjoys at OnStar had to go and ruin a good high-speed chase. ... Read More