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Security Alert: Information on Heartbleed

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heartbleed.fwYou’ve likely heard of Heartbleed over the past week. We wanted to share a bit about what it is, steps we have taken to protect our customers and steps you can take to protect yourself across the Web.

Some versions of Norton AntiVirus, Norton Internet Security and Norton 360 were impacted. On April 10th, we distributed updates to these impacted products to ...

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Fake Windows tech support calls continue to plague consumers

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A year after an FTC crackdown, scammers persist in trying to dupe PC owners

November 20, 2013 01:28 PM ET

Computerworld – More than a year after the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) heralded a major crackdown on fraudsters posing as Microsoft technical support personnel, consumers continue to receive calls from scammers.

“I received six phone calls about this Windows support scam,” said Mariene Walmsley in an email to Computerworld last week. ...

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Why You Should Backup Your Data

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This is one of the most important recommendations Paso Robles Tech can pass along to our clients. However, we find it is one of the most neglected areas of computing. Backing up your data should be at the top of everyone’s to-do list, right next to virus protection. We don’t have too many “must do” items, but backing up your data is absolutely one of them. Without data backup, we run the risk of losing years of valuable pictures, music, ...

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