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Lightening Strikes – Are your Computers Safe?
Around this time of year here in New York, Lightening storms are very common. With that brings many situations where computers and electronics fall victim to lightening and it’s subsequent power surges and brown outs, also known as electrical storms.
Have you ever found that after a lightening storm, you go to turn on your computer, [...]
Tags: Brown Out, Computers, Electrical, Electrical Storm, Electronics, Lightening, Short Circuit, Storms, Surge Protectors. NY, Surges
Lost Files and Crashed Hard Drive
We’ve all been there before; Working on that critical Spreadsheet, or uploading those important family photos and poof, your computer acts up, and either you lose the files you were working on, or worse yet the hard drive crashes. That sinking feeling sets in while you wonder how it happened, and what you are going [...]
Tags: Boot Problems, Corrupted Drive, Crashed Hard drive, Data, Data Loss, Deleted Files, Lost Files, Recovery
Scareware – The Epidemic
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They Trick you with names like “AntiVirus 2010″ and “Security Center 2010″ and by using images that resemble the windows security logos. You browse a website, a pop-up comes up, says it’s name is “AntiVirus 2010″ and “Your computer is infected with Viruses and spyware”. They tell you to download their ‘Product’ to remedy [...]
Tags: AntiVirus 2010, Data recovery, Fake Antivirus, Malware, Repair, Scareware, Virus
Godaddy Hosting Hacked – Customers Suffer
If you are a customer of godaddy.com and hosting a website with them, your website is probably like the millions of others, hacked and serving out malware to your loyal site visitors. Godaddy recently tried to blame the problem on the software Vendor “Wordpress” for insecure code in their blogging software which lead to the [...]
Do you trust your computer service provider?
Lately with the influx of new “computer repair companies” popping, the increase in criminal activity has also risen. We have heard countless horror stories from consumers and small businesses across the board, and would like to share some of them with you.
Privacy Issues
Let’s face it, most people keep their lives on their computers. Be it [...]
Tags: Data Theft, Identity theft, Privacy, Stealing
Goodbye Old Friend
As we all know todays technology thrives, and new technology develops at astonishing speeds, though not always a good thing. The age of The floppy disk has since gone the way of the Audio Tape Cassettes that all of us used to adore in the 80’s and 90’s.
Sony has announced that by March 2011 [...]
Tags: Data, End Of Life, Floppy, Goodbye, Sony
New FaceBook Privacy Exploit
While most people already know, social networking websites like FaceBook share your information with advertising agencies, and market your data to companies who want to solicit you. This was the case a few months ago when FaceBook started sharing it’s users information. Well they are at it again, this time it’s gone super public.
Facebookers are [...]
Tags: Alert, FaceBook, Identity sharing, Privacy
The Value of Technology and Your Business
Probably one of the most misunderstood aspects small businesses have trouble coming to terms with is how to place a Value on their Technology. This mostly comes into play when businesses need new computers, servers, and networking equipment, or are just starting up. It’s hard to justify the costs associated with keeping up with technology, or employing [...]
Tags: Computers, Consulting, Networking, Profits, Repairs, Servers, Technology, Value
What to know when it’s time to switch IT Providers
Lately while meeting with new clients for the first time we found that they all have one thing in common; being neglected by their current IT service provider and needing to make a switch for the sake of their business.
Though making the switch seems to be too intimidating for most companies we spoke with. Their [...]
Tags: Business IT, Computer and Networks, Firing IT companies, Precautions, Switching IT providers
Why ‘Easy Tech’ Free Computer Tune-up Doesn’t work…
With big box stores like Staples Easy Tech offering “Free Computer Tune Up” you have to really wonder what is behind it; their motive to give something away for “Free”.
We were inspired to write this post when we acquired a new customer whom stated she had a slow machine, and brought it to the local Staples to [...]
Tags: Easy Tech, Free Tuneup