TechByter Worldwide 2016.07.17: Have You Driven Thunderbird Lately? How Fraudsters Turn a Useful Tool into Something Evil, Short Circuits, and Spare Parts.

With the help of a few useful plug-ins, Thunderbird is a highly capable email application that runs on Windows, OSX, and Linux. One of the most useful utilities in Windows, the Event Viewer, is used by fraudsters to frighten users. Here's what you need to know to avoid the con. In Short Circuits ... The Washington Post offers a year's worth of free on-line access to anyone who subscribes to almost any other newspaper. This is genius and I'll explain why. The Sun and Moon calculator is helpful if you need to predict where either will be and an update makes it even better. In Spare Parts (only on the website): Mac users have to watch out for two new malicious apps launched in the last week, let's consider the possibility of voting on-line (someday), the FDIC is in trouble for trying to hide numerous long-term break-ins that exposed a lot of personal information, and even though Apple doesn't include a security slot with its notebook computers, you can add one -- for a price.