Oct

27

Bay Bridge to close, and MSFT has an out of cycle critical patch

October 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Pac IT Pros members: If you haven’t heard, the repair to the Bay Bridge failed and they are about to close it, and Microsoft has a critical patch for a patch. The patch prevents remote code execution in XP, Office 2003 and other Microsoft products. Bay Bridge closing and another out of cycle critical patch [...]

Oct

22

Windows 7 Launch software correction – Good news

October 22, 2009 | 1 Comment

I just want to correct some information that was given out at the launch events by the folks handing out the software. You may have been told as was I, the Windows software you received is 32 bit ONLY. As it turns out that statement is not completely accurate. After finding which of my contacts [...]

Oct

22

Help Dell find the source of emails and Job seekers your identity may have been leaked

October 22, 2009 | 4 Comments

I’ve been contacted by Dell requiring the fake Dell emails. If you received one of the fake Dell Quotes emails and are willing to work with Dell to “catch” these guys send me an email. For more details on the fake Dell quote emails or the FAKE emails for the Dell evaluation computers visit http://www.pacitnews. org [...]

Oct

22

Variation of OWA attack from Dell – Windows 7 warning

October 22, 2009 | 1 Comment

Windows 7 download warning – If you are downloading Windows 7 make sure you are only downloading it from a microsoft.com web site. Don’t trust Windows 7 software downloaded from a non-Microsoft site it’s just to easy for attackers to install malware in the download. Variation of the OWA attack – This one is from [...]

Oct

22

Update on the OWA scam emails

October 22, 2009 | 3 Comments

Pac IT Pros members: Over the past week or two your users may have received telling them they need to reconfigure their OWA settings by clicking on a link. The link they are given looks EXACTLY like a Microsoft OWA screen. (It’s would be hard for you to tell it’s a fake page.) Once your [...]

Oct

19

Anyone received the following SCAM email?

October 19, 2009 | 1 Comment

Pac IT Pros members: A couple of one of our member’s customers received the following SCAM email.  Has anyone else received similar emails? If so, please post at http://www.pacitnews.org ~~~~ BEGAN SCAM EMAIL  ~~~ Dear user of the italfoodsinc.com mailing service! We are informing you that because of the security upgrade of the mailing service [...]

Oct

18

Want an argument against Cloud Computing? Win 7 released this week. Droid due out Oct 30th.

October 18, 2009 | 3 Comments

Need an arguing point against Cloud computing?  T-Mobile and Microsoft had a cloud computing outage.  When they went to retrieve the back-up data from back-up media, guess what, there was a problem.  Initially T-Mobile and Microsoft said customer’s data was lost and they stated, “…the likelihood of a successful outcome is extremely low.”  Here’s a [...]

Oct

18

Video on Nigerian 419 scammers and other Internet crimes

October 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Pac IT Pros members:  I received a link from one of you on a TV special on Nigerian 419 scammers and other Internet crimes. While I hope everyone of you know about the scams in the segment, this video shows just how profitable these scams are which is why we get all the spam emails.  [...]