Leverage Microsoft Teams When Working from Home
Are you looking for a way to stay connected to your team during the Covid-19, or any other crisis for that matter? Microsft Teams may well be your best bet. Microsft Skype for Business is being retired on July 31, 2021, and like Edge replaced Internet Explorer,...
Remote Access Requests in Light of Non-Essential Ontario Business Shutdown
Today the Ontario government announced that all non-essential businesses are to close in Ontario. Businesses that can operate remotely are encouraged to do so and must prepare quickly. "Workplaces that can run with employees working remotely now have just under 36...
Response to the Coronavirus Outbreak
Yesterday the World Health Organization confirmed that the coronavirus outbreak has met the definition of a pandemic. As an IT support company, we are frequently in the company of clients and can touch many keyboards in any given day. As such, it has always been our...
How Do I Open a Port?
It's fairly often that a client will call and suggest that a software or hardware vendor needs them to "open a port" for their product to work. This is at best a misleading request and at worst a meaningless request as far as most smaller businesses are concerned. The...
Windows 10 Will Soon Reserve Disk Space for Updates
The March 2019 release of Windows 10 will reserve disk space for Windows updates to resolve an issue where Windows update doesn't bother to check disk space before installing.
The Best Wi-Fi Cams For Your Amazon Echo
If you have an Echo Show or Echo Spot, it can be paired with a compatible Wi-Fi cam to bring up the video feed on the display. If you’re in the market for a Wi-Fi cam and want it to work with Alexa, here are the best ones for the job Amazon Cloud Cam ($119) If...
Acer’s New Chromebook is Cheap, Big, And One of the First to Run an AMD Processor
.entry-header At CES 2019 Acer took the wraps off a new Chromebook, and it’s one of the first to use an AMD processor. Like so many of the company’s other Chromebooks, it’s an entry-level model. At first blush, there isn’t really anything remarkable about the...
Windows 10 Is Only Making Windows Fragmentation Worse
With Windows 10, Microsoft wanted to get every Windows user on the same platform. Now, the opposite is happening. Just 6.6% of Windows 10 PCs have the October 2018 Update over three months after its release. The Numbers These numbers come courtesy of AdDuplex, which...
Windows 10 Home Will Finally Let You Pause Updates
Only Windows 10 Professional users can pause Windows updates today, but that’s about to change. Windows 10 Home users will soon be able to pause updates for up to seven days. This feature should arrive for everyone when the next release of Windows 10, codenamed...
Ransomware roundup: Targeting servers, government, honoring Donald Trump and Voldemort
Security researchers have discovered more ransomware under development, namely one paying homage to Voldemort and another featuring Donald Trump, as well as one variant currently targeting servers and yet a different ransomware hitting government agencies and...
Free decryption tools now available for Dharma ransomware
Computer users who have been affected by the Dharma ransomware and have held onto their encrypted files can now restore them for free. Researchers have created decryption tools for this ransomware strain after someone recently leaked the decryption keys. Dharma first...
GEEK: Fake Adobe Flash update becoming commonplace
Coupled with the Microsoft update on Tuesday, Oct 9, 2018, I saw a suspicious Adobe Flash update message while surfing MSN.com and links using Google Chrome. McAfee also popped up telling me it had quarantined some suspicious files. I am not sure where I Question:...
Windows Update 1809 Has Been a Complete Disaster
It definitely isn't often that you'll hear the words "don't update Windows" come out of my mouth. Windows updates are typically a must. Not the past few months. Windows fall update for 2018, namely 1809 has been a complete disaster. I've seen it delete files, cause...
New Shamoon Sample from France Signed with Baidu Certificate
A new sample of Shamoon disk-wiping malware was uploaded from France recently to the VirusTotal scanning platform. It tries to pass as a system optimization tool from Chinese technology company Baidu. [...]
JungleSec Ransomware Infects Victims Through IPMI Remote Consoles
A ransomware called JungleSec is infecting victims through insecure IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) cards since early November. [...]
18 Months Later, WannaCry Still Lurks on Infected Computers
Eighteen months after the initial outbreak of the WannaCry Ransomware infection, the malware continues to rear its head on thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of infected computers. [...]
Do You Really Need to Regularly Reinstall Windows?
For many people, Windows seems to slow down over time. Quite a few people fix this by regularly reinstalling Windows. But do you need to reinstall Windows regularly? And, if so, how often do you need to reinstall it? Reinstalling Windows is inconvenient. You have to...
Beware of BMW Lottery Email Scam Stating You Won a BMW M240i
Emails are going around that may make you think you won a free 2018 BMW 2 Series M240i for the holidays, but the reality is that you just received a scam email that is trying to gather your personal information. [...]
Windows 10's Disk Cleanup Getting a New Warning About Downloads Folder
Windows 10's 19H1 update will add a new warning message in the Disk Cleanup app for the Downloads folder. Starting with Windows 10 Build 18305, the Disk Cleanup finally displays a warning when the user selects the Downloads folder. [...]
Orange LiveBox Modems Targeted for SSID and WiFi Info
A vulnerability in LiveBox ADSL modems from Orange allows an attacker to retrieve their SSID and WiFi password in plaintext by simply sending a request over the internet. [...]