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...
by Alan | Nov 9, 2013 | General
You can buy a brand new PC for £199 or you could pay, perhaps, £1,999, for much the same reason that some brand new cars (the Dacia Sandero, for instance) cost £5,995 while some will set you back well over £59,995. Now I think everybody knows that if you want an...
by Alan | Sep 21, 2013 | General
It doesn’t matter whether you’re working alone, at home, in a small office with a small staff or mainly out on the road or in hotels and airports, you still have to work with IT. Whether you use a desktop computer, a lightweight ultrabook, laptop or netbook, a...
