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 Logos of vendors were frequently out-of-date, and the links were clearly going to links ending in two-character country codes.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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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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Phish are smarter with AI, more difficult to spot, but scammers are still relying on everyone who gets email to click and allow their hoaxes, because using non-Admin Windows accounts blocks most of the attachment malware they try to send. They rely on you to let them into your computer. Here’s how to spot a phish, in the new October PC Updater News. Or free subscriptions and back issues are online here.

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Your computer is under attack from seasonal storms. The basics of power protection are in the free July PC Updater News, and back issues are here. PUPs have taken over your browser, too. Here’s what to know about Potentially Unwanted Programs.

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A PUP is a Potentially Unwanted Program. That’s malware named by a diplomat. Read more in the free July newsletter: PC Updater News. And the back issues are here. And thunderstorm season is here, with a very wet kaboom. Protect your technology.

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Windows 10’s last security update will be October 14, 2025. Before that, choose to upgrade it, replace it, or buy the Microsoft extended update service for it. Learn more in the free June 2025 PC Updater News, issue https://startupware.com/PC410_Newsletters/2025-06_PC_Updater_News-Windows_Countdown_&_the_Blob.pdf and back issues https://startupware.com/news here.

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A #blob is a #phishing attack from a file holding a #hoax web page, usually a copy of a login. Learn how to recognize these in the free June 2025 PC Updater News, issue https://startupware.com/PC410_Newsletters/2025-06_PC_Updater_News-Windows_Countdown_&_the_Blob.pdf and back issues https://startupware.com/news here.

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No, it’s another phishy phone call. First, QuickBooks online has an item count limit, but no business that is a likely client for QuickBooks will reach that limit, and there isn’t a file size limit. That does not stop the hoax phish calls. Read more in the April 2020 PC Updater News. The April issue is online here, and back issues and free subscriptions are available in the library.

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