Today I had to clean another one of those fake anti-virus programs off of a machine at work. This one was called Personal Antivirus and bore a striking resemblance to AVG Free (which I use myself and usually recommend to others). Here’s the AVG console: And here’s Personal Antivirus: Look familiar? In this particular case, …
This past Saturday afternoon I received an automated call from my credit card company saying that there were some suspicious charges that they wanted me to verify. The computerized voice dutifully read off the past three transactions and asked to confirm that I recognized all of them. Unfortunately, there was one I didn’t: a $1 …
Not technically a scam, but still something that I consider to be shady business practice … This evening I had a young college-age kid knock on my door wearing an Apex Security polo with an official-looking badge on a lanyard around his neck. He had seen the ADT sign in my front yard and basically …