Bug Threatens Your Online Safety Right now cyclone Ita is the hot topic of conversation if you are talking about the weather. Just the same can be said of the Heartbleed bug in the IT arena! The IT world is buzzing with warnings, theories, fixes and other propaganda surrounding this topic – what is it […]
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Hazards to self Installing New PC The number of new customers coming to us replacing a 6 to 10 year old Windows XP computer before Microsoft drops support for them in 3 days’ time, is simply astounding. This also forms the basis for another Byte Me article – I have just got my new computer […]
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Keep your Head Out of the Clouds Businesses should be going to cloud computing – what a load of glossy advertising! Businesses need to be well aware of the costs and limitations of cloud computing before jumping on this band wagon! Just because we have been logging into our Internet Banking sites (a cloud site) […]
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Microsoft is Shutting XP Window Many people are approaching us with worries about Windows XP reaching its ‘end of life’ on the 8th of April – just next month. In many cases even their virus scanner is coming up with suggestions about downloading Google Chrome or taking other safeguarding actions. So what does ‘end of […]
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Users Beginning to Unfriend Facebook For those readers that follow our weekly Byte Me articles I am happy to report that our new customer from last Saturday’s article received their new computers from us on Tuesday as planned and all is finally going smoothly. They have reported that the 5 week long saga of unusable […]
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Top Tips for Festive Computer Shopping The year is now racing toward completion and when I look through my office window I see Musgrave Street traffic at far busier levels than normal. Christmas shopping brings a lot of extra activity and retailers go to great lengths to ‘windows dress’ their latest wares. No retail sector […]
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No Delight with Desktop Invasion I often harp on about the number of junk emails and pop ups we get via the Internet and how they can be a nuisance in the least but are often a disaster in the waiting. What should belong to us as ‘our own desktop’ or ‘work area’ on our […]
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Invest in Backup and Protect Your Key Files At the risk of sounding boring – this is the third article in a row which has been written with the latest Internet threat – Cryptolocker – as the principle topic. I also have to state again that the appearance of this threat, or Ransomware as it […]
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Backup to Avoid Lethal Blackmail Two weeks in the IT world can be a very long time and in this case the whole ball game has changed in the last fortnight as far as I am concerned. Last week we had several customers falling victim to an Internet threat that previously had little impact. This […]
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Hackers Get the Upper Hand It has finally happened! We have one of our customers that has fallen victim to Ransomware software that can’t be bypassed – this is a first in 16 years and I hope it is not a sign of more to come. What is this all about? Ransomware is software that […]
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