These phish attempts are worse, much worse, for those of you who insist on using one password everywhere and forever. Again, once a phishing attack lands a password and user account login, or worse, an email login that can be used to confirm logins, these thieves will try using those logins to the top 20 to 50 banking and ecommerce sites, and see what accounts they get access to. AI will make this worse…

Continues in the free March 2026 PC Updater News, or read back issues here.

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Phish are evolving. In the past, large schools of phish were easily recognized as scams by looking for stupid stuff in the allegedly-urgent emails. There were spelling and grammar errors, capitalization errors that match other languages but not English, bad-logic lines like ‘in your nearest post office,’ and most important, the sending email address is some random international address that you don’t do business with. Logos of vendors were frequently out-of-date, and the links were clearly going to links ending in two-character country codes. AI is cleaning up those issues, and the phish are looking more like real business emails….

Continues in the free March 2026 PC Updater News, or read back issues here.

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Windows 11 just won’t shut up. OneDrive this, backup that, and it’s all a distraction from getting work done. In the free February 2026 PC Updater News, learn how to turn off the notifications and popups. And turn ON the Emojis icon, which also inserts international characters, not just :-). Back issues and subscriptions are here.

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Windows 11 is noisy. Popups and ads everywhere, and they’re mostly OneDrive advertisements. In the free February 2026 PC Updater News, learn how to turn off the notifications and popups. And turn ON the Emojis icon, which also inserts international characters, not just :-). Back issues and subscriptions are here.

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Some large businesses are changing how they work, or perhaps don’t, as of the start of 2026. Microsoft has mangled the Office trademarks yet again; Office, formerly known as “Microsoft 365”, has not become the “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” because, well, priorities of the corporation surpass the priorities of the few, or the one.

Also, high memory prices, and AI is NOT in free Gmail. A new year means it’s time to try for a paperless office, or at least not adding to the stacks. Here is the PDF software that you’ll need for that, all in the free January 2026 PC Updater News. Or get back issues and a subscription here.

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Nope, not really. Office isn’t $10 or $19 like those ads are showing on major sites. Those ads you’re seeing are scams. The correct price for Microsoft Office is either totally FREE for the web-page version, or around $149 for the one-time purchase that is good for a few years, until the patches expire. And there are monthly versions for business, too. Read more in the free December 2025 PC Updater News, or subscribe and read back issues here.

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The annual feature update for Windows 11 from October 2025 is behaving itself, and installing without issues, so go ahead and install it on workstations and laptops. There are a few new features, and they’re listed in the free December 2025 PC Updater News. Back issues and a free subscription are here.

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When you save a web page, Windows just makes a mess, and it tends to break Windows maximum filename length rules. So don’t do that, print it to PDF instead.

Here’s what to do instead of saving, in the free November issue of PC Updater News, or get back issues and a free subscription here.

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It’s that time. The time when turkeys send email. No, that’s an insult to our dinners. Around the holidays, expect and delete seasonal attempts to hack you and your email and bank accounts.

• Shipping and tracking fakes with bad attachments.
• Receipts for expensive goods you didn’t order, with a convenient cancellation phone number that will make full use of any card number you provide.
• Donation links for the holidays, and for any new disaster that’s in the news.

Here’s what to look for, the free November issue of PC Updater News, or get back issues and a free subscription here.

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