Weston Turville U3A Newsletter – February 2014

Wt Church gatePlease read on and AGMstop sighing: we have to have them and they have to follow a certain format. Those people who have attended previous ones will know that I try to keep them brief, succinct and concise. Those people who have read this last sentence will know that all three adjectives are synonyms: that is to show you how quick it will be!

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Don’t be a sucker for a scam – plus ça change plus c’est la même chose

Thames Valley police logoWe know you’ve all hear about these tricks usually to try to diddle us out of money or get information about us or people in our Contacts lists.

It’s almost always the same thing – trying to get you to click on an attachment to an e-mail that will either lead you to revealing information to someone different from whom you supposed or, without further action on your part, do unpleasant things to your computer either overtly or covertly causing at least hassle, but more

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Spammers – Episode 32543 – Cryptolocker ransomware

spammersYou are NOT being paranoid –they ARE out to get you. 

Well, joy of joys there’s a new virus/trojan/nasty-thing out to get us … if we let it.

Let’s start with what it is. As usual it is delivered neatly wrapped in an innocent looking e-mail as an attachment looking just like set of funny cat pictures, or a message from your bank, anything to entice you to open it … and you do.

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