I received an email from Perplexity today with an interesting offer. Clicking through the provided link (not shown) reveals the specifics of the offer. If the unique link provided to me is used by someone I invite, and that person uses the Comet browser to ask Perplexity one question, I get $15. The person gets […]

Potentially unwanted programs are what these are officially called. I’ll call them sneaky little suckers that purposely look like Edge and wiggle into the system. When I remote in to assist clients with various issues, so many times I see these stupid “start menu” pages that wiggle into their systems. Annoying, and potentially dangerous. These are […]

ISSUE 22.34.2 • 2025-08-28 By Susan Bradley For quite some time, the AskWoody website has been under a heavy distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. We don’t know the precise reasons why we’ve become a target. From an editorial perspective, it would be nice to discover that we’d ruffled a few feathers and that an evil entity […]

ON SECURITY By Susan Bradley The other day, I was working on something at home while my dad was doomscrolling through YouTube videos. Usually, he watches topics about classic cars and the like, but this time he hit on something political. The video focused on two people supposedly debating. The narrator urged everyone to stop […]

FREEWARE SPOTLIGHT By Deanna McElveen By now, you probably have dozens — if not hundreds — of passwords saved in your Web browser. Those created by your browser are super strong. But some are a pet’s name with maybe a number or two thrown in. Today we are going to accomplish two things. First, we’ll […]

Brian King //   Do you know what that browser plugin is doing? There’s a browser plugin for just about everything. You can find one to change the name of […]

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