Seeing your computer screen go black and not be able to turn it back on can be a frightening experience. Although the expensive is always in the back of your mind of having to get your computer repaired or replaced, the biggest worry most people face is, are you able to recover your data; photos, music, documents, tax information etc?… Read more →
Category: Malware
Questions and Answers 12-02-2018
Should I turn my computer off when I am not using it Your computer is designed to run for long periods of time, and servers even longer. Saying that, I turn my computer off most of the time when I am not using it. They way I look at it, if it’s not running, the less things can go wrong… Read more →
Questions and Answers 09-02-2018
Bang for my buck, what is the best way to speed my computer up? This is actually a really complicated question, but I am going to do my best to answer it and speak in general. Speeding up your computer will depend on what you do. Are you playing games, number crunching, writing software or doing graphic and editing, animation… Read more →
5 Reasons Your Email Might Not Be Working
One of the most common problems people call us for, whether its a school, big organisation or home user is email problems. Email are one of the oldest yet still most used and trusted ways to communicate on the internet. You do need internet to send and receives emails and some people have internet problems and in turn affects their… Read more →
Computer Not Starting After Update
Updates are suppose to make everything work better on your computer or laptop and most of the time they do. But sometimes it just doesn’t go all to plan. It can be be quite scary for a technological point of view when your computer asks to to an update or upgrade. There are so many programs on your computer. Do… Read more →
Port Forwarding
What are Ports When accessing the internet, your computer most likely has a private and public IP address. Your IP address (Internet Protocol) is a unique address assigned to your network which distinguishes you from every other computer/network on the internet. Loosely speaking, when you request a web page in your browser such as www.townsvillenerds.com, your computer sends a request… Read more →
What’s Blocking My Internet
No body likes slow internet. But yet, even with the massive amounts of money being spent on technology, communications the NBN etc. Are lot of us are still getting slow internet. But even though its easy to just blame the telecommunications companies, its not always there fault. The first thing you need to do when you have slow internet on… Read more →
Things You Don’t Think of When Buying A New Computer – Part 1
There are so many things to consider when buying a new computer. Features you have never heard of, security, software, design? To make it even harder, it’s not like you can take it home and test it first. You’ve got to try it in the shop and even though there are a lot of things you have an idea about,… Read more →
Which is the best Antivirus for you
People ask me all the time which is the best antivirus program for their Microsoft Windows computer. This is probably the hardest question to answer, as there is no one shoe fits all strategy here. There is a clear difference in what anti-viruses corporate businesses should use who host web sites, servers and data sets. But when it comes to… Read more →
Fruitfly Apple Mac Virus
Apple Computers Do Get Viruses The common belief is Apple Mac computer do not get viruses. Yes, Apple Macs are built on top of a foundation which viruses find it hard to infect, but the truth is Apple computers desktops and Macbook’s do in fact get viruses as well. There is a much smaller market share for Apple computers so… Read more →