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Facebook and a Social Virus

February 15, 2010

Facebook has a virus and unfortunately it’s not the kind you take 2 aspirin’s, drink lots of fluid and get some rest to cure.
It works like an attachment in an email, and the way it spreads it through the links on your Facebook wall.
What happens is that once it has infected your computer it sends [...]

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Can Cloud Computing Rain on Your Business?

February 5, 2010

“Dave, What’s this ‘Cloud Computing’ I’ve been hearing about?”
First the simplest explanation: the ‘Cloud’ is the internet, the web.
Now, that’s what I call a good question, mostly because it deals with the kind of stuff we talk about here all the time.
Instead of giving you a scientific and geeky explanation I’ll give you a [...]

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Viruses, Hackers and Stuff. We don’t scare easily.

February 3, 2010

Recently a friend of mine called me and said, “Hey, you are scarring me to death with all this talk of viruses, hackers and stuff.”
You’ve probably already guessed that my response was, “Good. My objective is not to scare you it’s to get you to take action before they get to your system.”
Here’s why, [...]

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Computer Hackers Can Cost Your Business Thousands

January 29, 2010

It’s quite interesting that when someone of some note, like a news reporter or an elected official has a computer virus or their system gets “hacked” the news story will give 11 to 25 different things that, “you can do to protect yourself and your personal information from cyber-intruders.” Don’t get me wrong the “tips” [...]

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Getting Your Teeth Cleaned and Your Computer System Checked Out

January 27, 2010

Most everyone has heard that backing up the information on your computer system is important. Like many other parts of our lives we put it off. Very few people look forward to an annual physical from their doctor. What if there’s something wrong? Some people actually don’t want to hear the bad news. When someone [...]

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Don’t Let Your Business Lose Thousands of Dollars

January 26, 2010

Have you ever lost an hour of work time on your business computers? The first response is usually frustration. “Hey, what happened to that spreadsheet I just spent the last 4 hours entering data on?”
“Gone, what do you mean gone? What do you mean the ‘server’ has crashed?”
It’s not like a waiter dropping your prime-rib [...]

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No Pressure, No Hype, No Hard Sell

January 15, 2010

Two weeks ago my very expensive shaver stopped working. I took it to the shaver repair store. The guys who work here are older and a little bit gruff, sort of like the guys who work in every shaver repair store. This is the part where I was totally floored, I handed my shaver to [...]

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Back Up Anything on your Computer…That You Want to Keep

January 14, 2010

You’ve been hearing this since you first logged onto a computer, “Backup up anything you want to keep.” It’s kind of like that old dentist saying, “Only floss between the teeth you want to keep in your mouth.” And just like flossing your teeth, you don’t backup your home computer, and you might have some [...]

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10 Essentials for the Small Business Disaster Recovery Tool Kit

October 23, 2009

With all the challenges businesses face in today’s business climate, the last thing any business, big or small, wants to deal with is recovering from data loss. From human error to equipment failure such as a hard drive or RAID controller, all the way on the other end of the spectrum of a natural [...]

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