Category: 969: Microsoft Outage; Flash Player; MacOS Firewall

A firewall is a piece of software or hardware that monitors incoming and outgoing network traffic using rules set up by the user or administrator. You can go and buy a fancy 3rd-party firewall, but Apple has one built into MacOS. With this built-in software firewall you can set what applications can have incoming and…

As a computer technician, one of the most common questions I am asked is “What is Adobe Flash Player?”Almost everyone has seen a message on their computer at some point telling them that Adobe Flash Player needs to be installed or updated, but few people seem to understand what it actually is or what it…

_Hello Fellow Technophiles,_ I would like to start out by saying that I am not sharing this to offer evidence that Apple is superior to Microsoft even though that is CLEARLY the case. I am merely sharing information… Yesterday, the 7th of March, Microsoft had a major service outage that affected many of their services.…