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Issues with the PhishAlarm button? Clear your cache – 11/03/20

 

This week the phishing training program resumed.  This gave everyone a chance to use the new PhishAlarm button to report the suspicious emails.  For most of you, it worked great!. For some of you, not so much.

As the PhishAlarm button is a browser based tool  (it works through your web browser), it can act up when your browser acts up. This is true for all browser based tools. When this happens it can usually be remedied by clearing your cache.

Your cache is where images and content are downloaded and stored. Your browser does this to save time loading a web page. The first time you visit it, it will load some key information into your cache. The next time you visit that page, instead of downloading it from the internet again, it goes to the cache and loads it from there. This makes the webpage load much faster. This is true whether the page is a just a boring website or a web based application.

So the next time the PhishAlarm button gives you an error message or any other web based application gives you trouble, clear your cache.  It will empty all the information stored there and download it from the Internet again.  This basically resets the application and it usually starts working. For details on how to clear your cache, check your browser’s help files.

Happy Reporting!!

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