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05/28/2026

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12/23/2025

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays !
More news soon ...

01/09/2024

FYI .... it's free !

Every home in the U.S. is eligible to order an additional 4 free at-⁠home tests beginning November 20. If you did not order tests this fall, you may place two orders for a total of 8 tests.

12/04/2021

Happy Holidays ....

06/28/2019

Please folks ... keep you computer updated and keep a good anti-virus active and updated as well

12/08/2017

Remember ........

07/11/2017

Remember to keep your computer updated !

06/08/2015

It's Monday ..... remember to back up your files tonight !
A mechanically failed hard drive can cost you thousands of dollars to recover the information ....... if the info can be recovered .....at all......
:-(

01/07/2015

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Remember ......... if you don't know the person that sent the e-mail to you ....... definitely ....... positively ........do not open any attachment[s] ....... period !
More than likely it is a bug/virus/worm/hijacker........ or in plain terms ..... it's a bad thing .......... ! ! !

03/25/2014

Reposted

Microsoft Word Zero-Day Vulnerability is being exploited in the Wild

Monday, March 24, 2014 by Mohit Kumar

Microsoft warned about a zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Word that is being actively exploited in targeted attacks and discovered by the Google security team. “At this time, we are aware of limited, targeted attacks directed at Microsoft Word 2010…” company said.
According to Microsoft's security advisory, Microsoft Word is vulnerable to a remote code ex*****on vulnerability (CVE-2014-1761) that can be exploited by a specially crafted Rich Text Format (RTF).
An Attacker can simply infect the victim's system with malware if a user opens a malicious Rich Text Format (.RTF), or merely preview the message in Microsoft Outlook.

"The issue is caused when Microsoft Word parses specially crafted RTF-formatted data causing system memory to become corrupted in such a way that an attacker could execute arbitrary code."

Microsoft acknowledged that remote code ex*****on flaw also exists in Microsoft Word 2003, 2007, 2013, Word Viewer and Office for Mac 2011.

Microsoft is working on an official patch, which will be released with the next Patch Tuesday security updates on April 8.

But in the meantime, Windows users can use temporary 'Fix It' tool to patch this vulnerability and also can install Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) tool that can mitigate this vulnerability.

Do not download .RTF files from the suspicious websites, and do not open or preview .RTF email attachments from strangers.

Get it ?

Do not open any .rtf file[s] unless you absolutely know the person / company that they are coming from !