by Alan | Apr 21, 2014 | General
It seems I may have as many as 10 old XP PCs to replace with something newer over the next few weeks. Some of these upgrades have definitely been spurred on by the annoying popup now coming up on XP screens informing the XP user – that’s it, we’re finished – outta...
by Alan | Apr 11, 2014 | General, Security
If you have read the press or listened to the news any time since Tuesday, you have probably heard of a new Internet security vulnerability called HeartBleed which the IT security industry has got all hot and bothered about. Well here is my personal (grossly...
by Alan | Apr 9, 2014 | General
Nearly 40% of all the callouts we receive involve potential or actual data loss. It may be a virus, or accidentally downloaded malware of some kind, or some kind of file corruption or physical hard drive failure. You never know what’s round the corner. But one...
by Alan | Apr 8, 2014 | General
After giving the world what amounts to 7 years notice, Microsoft is finally pulling the plug on Windows XP today – Tues 8th April – and about 20% of Windows users will carry on with XP regardless. Of course, Windows XP won’t stop working today. And most of the 20%...
by Alan | Nov 12, 2013 | General, Security
In the last few years we must have been asked by many dozens of clients to clean up large numbers of computers with some form of unwanted software on them – call it a virus, a worm, a trojan horse, rootkits, adware, malware, spyware, whatever – I’m just going to call...
