May 2014 Updates and News
What’s New Internet Explorer Zero Day – There was a nasty zero day vulnerability discovered in Internet Explorer this month. The vulnerability was very similar to countless other zero day…
Read moreApril 2014 Updates and News ** Windows XP Has Reached End Of Life (EOL) **
What’s New Two Big Stories This Month RIP Windows XP – As of 8 April 2014, Microsoft will no longer be providing support for Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Office 2003,…
Read moreLess than 7 days until End of Life (EOL) for Windows XP
Just a quick reminder that we are now less than a week away from the end of life for Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Exchange Server 2003 and a…
Read moreAnother Cryptolocker virus victim. Do you have a backup? Are you *sure*?
I’ve written a number of times on the Cryptolocker virus but just got a call from a client that walked into her office this morning to find that all of…
Read moreFirst Linux PC ready for a new home
Project Get Off Your Can And Do What You Can is under way!! Last month, we posted an article that we would be accepting donations of older Windows XP computers,…
Read moreMarch 2014 News and Updates
What’s New PLEASE READ THIS – We reported that the Cryptolocker virus was making it’s way around the Internet again back on 17 October 2013 and have reported a few…
Read moreTrouble connecting to AT&T Uverse routers
We have had 3 instances in as many days of clients having trouble connecting via wifi to AT&T Uverse routers. The computers tend to connect everywhere else and, after manually…
Read moreUS CERT Warns that the Tax Season will bring Phishing Scams and Malware Campaigns
The 2014 Tax Season is upon us and the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US CERT, http://www.us-cert.gov/) is providing some good advice for the barrage of scams and malware campaigns that…
Read moreNothing on the wire that I’ve seen yet, but we have received virus emails from multiple Yahoo! mail users
I haven’t seen any reports of another Yahoo breach but we have seen a spike in the number of emails from yahoo.com users in the last 24 hours. The format…
Read moreIssues with some inbound calls
We are having some intermittent issues with inbound calls to the office. The calls are going through, but about 20% of the time there is no audio (e.g., you won’t…
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