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There are a lot of computer threats out there these days and lots of ways criminals can hurt you, destroy your data or spy on what you are doing. Some of them just advertise you and are more of a nuisance than a real threat and others can cause real damage and full loss of both physical components and software,… Read more →
This post is about another scam going around hitting a lot of people in Townsville. It comes in many different colours and skins, but it all amounts to the same thing. Getting you to pick up the phone and give your credit card details to someone who is not a real antivirus company and who will install software on your… Read more →
Anyone who follows my blog will know I am not a great fan of antivirus programs. It’s just I see dozens of computers every month with viruses and they all have some sort of Anti-virus Malware type protection on them. I don’t think they are anywhere as good as they should be and all my customers are certainly under the… Read more →
This year (2016), I am already seeing a lot of Phishing Scams coming under the guise of being from Australia Post. Phishing Scams are scams which attempt to try and get personal information from you by tricking you some way, usually by gaining your trust. There have been a lot of Phishing Scam attempts performed by criminals pretending to be… Read more →
Most people I speak to think Macs do not get computer viruses. Generally speaking that use to be true, but it was a matter of there was a lot less Macs out there than Windows PC’s so they where much less of a target than Windows operating system computers. So now that Apple Mac computers do indeed get computer viruses,… Read more →
The internet is built on the back of advertising. Although most websites seem on the surface to appear on your screen free of charge, most are actually funded by different types of advertising streams. Successful websites aren’t cheap to run. As well as authors putting in large amounts of time to bring you useful and relevant information, there are… Read more →
What are Pop Ups? Pop Ups are an annoying form of advertising on your computer which demand your attention. These ads sit in your web browsing windows like Internet Explorer, Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox and are highly animated with the intention of being obvious and annoying so you are forced to deal with and pay attention to. Some Pop Ups… Read more →
A lot of people don’t know the difference between an Antivirus program and a firewall and what each actually does. There are some exceptions to the rules but for the sake of simplicity and without getting to technical this article is going to be discussing the differences in general. Indeed you can get antivirus programs with firewalls built in, but… Read more →
Townsville computer repairs who do virus removal you have landed on the experts. We find the biggest virus threat in Townsville seems to be virus associated with media content. That is, viruses which have accidentally been downloaded by the user while trying to listen, watch or play some sort of entertainment. There are different types of viruses but the most prevalent… Read more →
UPDATE: (30-06-15) Since writing this article we have seen a lot more viruses actually targeting people in Townsville. The need for virus removal Townsville has never been greater. For whatever reason, maybe because Townsville has a large NBN based infrastructure in place, but more and more man made computer viruses are targeting us in Townsville. Emails with subject lines such as “Important… Read more →
