Introducing Parrish Todd. By now I think that most everyone has met Parrish and you’ve provided favorable reviews of his work thus far. Soon we’ll begin assigning Parrish to accounts so he can become a select groups “IT guy”. Parrish comes to us with 13 years experience in a wide […]
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Windows XP arrived on the scene in 2002. 12 years is an unheard of life span for a supported operating system but its time has come to an end and the malware writers are really, really excited. They are excited about the opportunity presented by having an in production operating […]
It’s that time of year when we busily rush around while reflecting on what kind of year it’s been and how thankful we are for the great customers we have. We continue to be amazed by you and your success and humbled to be a small contributor. So thank you […]
If you have a Windows 8 computer, then your upgrade to Windows 8.1 is free. This is the latest version of Windows 8. This upgrade is also being delivered in a new way. It is coming down via the Microsoft Store and Microsoft expects therefore that ALL Windows 8 computers […]
Microsoft announced that starting December 1st your school district can start handing out Office 365 free to its students. Educational institutions, whether K-12 school districts or those in higher education, that license Office Professional Plus 2013 or Office 365 ProPlus — the former is traditionally-licensed software while the latter is […]
I realize how that subject line reads so just so no one panics these are two separate topics completely unrelated. Equus: While travelling recently in California I had the pleasure of taking my Third Tier team to be the speakers for the October SMBTechFest and since I was in the […]
Credit card processing organizations and banks are beginning to demand a dedicated PC that resides on a separate network from the rest of your computers in order to process a credit card transaction or access online banking. We have seen two instances of this so far and based upon the […]
We have seen a rash of websites attacked and essentially destroyed recently. The attack is poorly executed and fills the website with enough garbage to cause it to be unable to run. The sheer number of files that are placed in the folders and the code changes make it impossible […]
Gosh it’s been an interesting week. We received notification that APC has recalled some very old surge strips. These were manufactured prior to 2003. If you have one of them around they are a fire risk. Below is a picture of what they look like. If you have one of […]
Cryptolocker: Regarding yesterday’s post about Cryptolocker. We are working on developing a block for the installer of this virus. Currently we are testing it on our own computers. This block uses software restriction policies to prevent the executable files from running. We are testing (dogfooding) on ourselves to make sure […]