Q: We recently got a phone call from a person saying he was from an outfit called Click and Fix. He said that our PC was sending out errors and he wanted to repair it. My wife, who was using the computer at the time and answered the phone, said we don’t subscribe to such a service and asked if they were contracted by another company that we do business with.
Illegal downloads, we are all too often told by various media giants, will be the death of decent TV and films. While I can see this is a logical conclusion if people continue to trawl bittorrent sites for their entertainment, I can’t help but think there is a better and easier solution than chasing down and fining an individual hundreds of thousands of pounds for having watched a show without paying for it.
Albany, N.Y.-based Hearst publication Timesunion.com now reports that on Thursday readers of its comics section began complaining of being prompted to download malicious software. In an update posted to its site, Timesunion.com said the attack took advantage of the recently disclosed Adobe flaw. The news outlet said it had traced the attack back to a problem at King Features, which serves comics on its Web site, and that King Features had since corrected the problem.