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Every now and again I get a customer who believes Youtube put a Virus on their computer. Although it is not out of the realm of possibility, it is highly unlikely. Youtube is owned by Google, a very big and profitable internet company. Google makes a lot of its money through advertisements, they probably do not need to put a viruses on your… Read more →
The most common scam we are seeing this June 2016, maybe the most common scam throughout all of 2016 so far is there one where the victim actually calls the scammer and allows them to take control of their computer. For a long while for the past 10 years there have been countless reports of people calling Australians with foreign sounding… Read more →
Its bad enough when you start using your computer and all of the sudden popups start bugging you and interfering with whatever your doing, but what do you do if it happens straight up; when your computer has just been turned on? When you are using your computer and more and more popups start bugging you there are a lot… Read more →
Just about everybody uses wireless these days in their homes as do a lot of business around town in Townsville. Wireless is a great alternative to having to wire up your whole home or business with ethernet cable or have it prebuilt into your structure. Rather, adding a wireless router or modem can easily allow most people to connect to… Read more →
One Drive Less Storage Space I don’t use OneDrive. I jumped into Dropbox when it was first release and have bene using it ever since. I don’t use a lot of space on it, mostly just files I use on the run and files I need to sync with my laptop, and phone. Storing files in the cloud is also an… Read more →
It is important to tick a lot of box’s on your computer when it comes to security. Living in Australia we come under attack from all sorts of technical threats, not from only people who want to hurt you, but from those who want to make money from you also. With so much computer jargon and security terminology it can… 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 →
Have you ever gone to a website to download a specific file only to find out all the download, or most a fake. You have to click on every download link until one of them actually work and you get the file you came for. Some a viruses, some are adware but the majority are just getting you tow download… Read more →
For anyone who uses their computer for work, school or even just for fun, having a virus or your computer can be one of the most annoying things on your computer you will even have to deal with. Viruses destroy your computer, Adware advertises to you, Spyware spy’s on you, but what does Ransomware do? Ransomware is a whole new… 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 →
