You may find remote tech support annoying but as Stacy Gore discovered, it can be positively creepy. The California resident alleges that after getting a virus on her laptop she logged onto Dell’s ...

Former tech support guy Brett Kelly says there are a few things you can do to get the computer help you need most efficiently over the phone. Before you call, try the obvious fixes: Reboot, consult ...

You're browsing different websites when suddenly a pop-up window declares, “Your computer was locked” and tells you to call “Windows engineering” at a toll ...

More than 30 months after surfacing, a tech-support scam targeting Dell computer owners continues to raise questions about how the callers know sensitive information, including PC serial numbers and ...

As a writer and editor for GeekMom, I receive a number of offers to try out different tech support products. I tend to accept many of the anti-virus protection products because my four children are ...

I’ve spent part of this weekend working on a tutorial with two chaps out in Denver Colorado that examines the mechanics of how they work with developers to help fix application errors. What makes this ...

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So fish calls the vendor, and the support guy tells him it’s a known problem caused by a manufacturing glitch. “There is a lever on the door that should hit a sensor when you close it,” fish says.