This morning I received the following email. Please delete the email. I found the link has been redirected to an illegitimate website. Wathout for those emails from paypay@security.co.nz

Dear Customer,
PayPal Is Sending You This E-Mail To Inform Your That Our Processors Are Unable To Verify Your Account Profile.This Could Be Due To Many Reasons,For Example :

1.You Have Two Addresses Linked To Your Credit Card On Your PayPal Profile.
2.You Have Two Addresses In Your PayPal Account Profile.
3.You Have Many Rejected Payments Through Your PayPal Account.
4.You Have Tried To Log In Your PayPal Account Using Different IP Addresses.
5.You Have Changed Your Address.

According To The Reasons Listed Above,We Are Asking You To Take One Minute Of Your Time To Update & Confirm Your PayPal Account Profile Before Our Servers Start Deleting Your PayPal Account From Our System,You Can Read Our Terms And Conditions That Allow PayPal To Do This Action If You Didnt Update Your Profile Within 72 Hours From Now.

To Update Your Account Profile Please Click Here .

Note : Failure To Update Your Account Within 72 Hours Will Lead To Block Your Account And You Will Not Be Able To Use PayPal Agian.

Regards,

PayPal Billing Department

Over the weekend, I responded to a request from Radio New Zealand’s “This Way Up” programme for information on the phone calls which people have been receiving from people pretending to be Microsoft representatives and claiming that “your computer” is sending out viruses. I was prompted to respond because I heard the request just before [...]

Christmas is comming and so does the internet scammer. Please watch out.

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Beware of fake antivirus programs such as XP Antimalware. Recently we had a customer with a rogue antivirus called XP Anti-malware that displays false antivirus warnings, when in reality itself is a virus. It goes by the filename “ave.exe” It hijacks the web browser and directs the user to a website that demands payment for [...]

Hi folks, Computer Troubleshooters was once again awarded the “Best Technology Franchise” award by Franchise Business Review. Feel free to print and display the attached certificate wherever you feel appropriate. We also ranked 285th in AllBusiness.com’s ranking of the top 300 franchises, and I was interviewed today on the new AllBusiness radio show about CT [...]

A laptop is recently brought in to our office. Our customer reported that the laptop was displaying blue screen. After performing number of test, our engineer found the culprit. A trojan virus was hidden in the window directory. After running number of virus cleaning program, we removed the virus completely and the customer was happy. If [...]