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July General Meeting
Ransomware

July 7, 2022 @ 7 p.m. ET

Our guest speaker will be Sam Sharma.

Remote attendance via Zoom video conference (no meeting at Keller Williams).

Ransomware is a type of malicious software, or malware, that encrypts data on a computer making it unusable. A malicious cyber criminal holds the data hostage until the ransom is paid. If the ransom is not paid, the victim's data remains unavailable. Cyber criminals may also pressure victims to pay the ransom by threatening to destroy the victim's data or to release it to the public.oom login instructions will be sent via email.

Plan now to attend!

Oh, and one more thing...................

Normally, at every General Meeting we have door prize drawings but due to the ongoing health crisis, the drawings are not currently held at our Zoom-only meetings. The computer below will be raffled at the next in-person General Meeting.

The door prize:

HP Pavilion H8-1241

• Intel i5-2500 3.30GHz
• 500GB SATA hard drive
• Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
• 8.0GB DDR3 Memory
• EVGA 9800 GTX+ video
• LibreOffice 7.1
  
• DVD-RW
• Keyboard and Mouse
  

The door prize is open to members only but non-members can easily join at the front desk to be eligible for the drawing. Only $50 per year per household.

Now you can join Westchester PC Users Group or renew your membership conveniently and safely online via credit card or PayPal. You can also make a tax deductible donation.

Conventional mail / check payments are still available too. Click here to join, renew, or donate.

For questions, email our membership chair at membership@wpcug.org.

                                    

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Westchester PC-Renew - We refurbish donated computers and provide them free to nonprofit groups in the community who can't afford to purchase new computers.

Click the above link to learn more about our activities and how to get a refurbished computer.

Applyhere for a computer

The latest Westchester PC Users Group Newsletter is now online. You can view it here or preview the table of contents. For past newsletters view here.  Please note that while the preview is available to everybody, the complete newsletter is for club members only.

A selection of  workshop & general meeting presentation documents are now online. Click here to view.

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Operation Clean Slate

In the last several years, the use of malicious software (malware) by online criminals has emerged as a global cybersecurity threat. Of the available intrusion devices, the “bot,” or Web robot, is particularly pervasive, allowing an attacker to take control remotely of a compromised computer or computers. Invisible to victims, these networks, called “botnets,” can include hundreds of thousands of machines around the world, controlled by a cyber criminal, or “bot herder.” . Read more.....

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