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World Cup version of this site.......... 18/06/2010
Browser Choice icon or window.................. 14.04.10
You may have had an icon appear on the desktop called "Browser Choice" and wandered what it is all about.................
Fake calls from "Windows".................... 10.04.10
Many customers are reporting getting phone calls from "Windows" telling them they need to re-register their PC at a price, or that they have a corrupt Windows log that needs looking at, for a price..............
Spotify. The answer to getting free music 23.01.2010...
One of the most regular discussions we have with customers concerns machines infected through the use of music/video download programs such as Limewire and BitTorrent...
Internet Explorer security flaw repaired 21/01/2010 ...
Microsoft has released a fix for a hole in Internet Explorer that was the weak link in a "sophisticated and targeted" cyber attack on Google....
Millions tricked by 'Scareware'
Scareware, or pop-up windows designed to look like legitimate security warnings, have become a major issue recently, conning many people into downloading and sometimes even paying for, software they do not need...
Ever wandered why your WiFi is so unreliable...
Taken from the BBC, this article goes a long way to explaining why many people using WiFi in their homes find it so unreliable...
Windows 7 pricing announced...
Microsoft have released further details and prices for Windows 7, which is due to be released on October 22nd...
What exactly IS spyware and Malware? ...
Spyware is software that hides itself somewhere on your computer collecting information about you and what you do on the internet...
File sharing site owners jailed...
The founders of file-sharing website The Pirate Bay have been sentenced to a year in jail in Sweden...
NOD32 version 4 latest news...
As the title suggests, there has been an update to NOD32 and ESET Smart Security to the latest version - version4...
Article on Cyber Crime...
The BBC have produced an excellent article on how cyber crime has become big, organised businessg...
Microsoft debuts quick fix clicks on some support pages...
Microsoft has started putting the button on its web-based support pages that detail the most common problems hitting PC and Windows users...
Adobe PDF (Acrobat) Reader problems...
We have seen numerous PCs over the past few weeks with Adobe Reader related issues...
Fake antivirus sites closed...
As the title suggests, the US government are actively shutting down the servers of several companies that use scare tactics to sell unecessary and ineffective security software...
How spam works...
The BBC have done an interesting article on how spammers make there money...
Excellent article on Scareware...
The BBC have done an excellent article on a very common phenomenom at the moment - Scareware...
Scam Antivirus installation...
A lot of customers have fallen foul of the recent WinAntivir or Windows Antivirus 2008/2009 "infections"...
BitTorrent file sharing shut down...
Peer to peer file sharing utility TorrentSpy has been forced to shut down operations, along with a fine for $110million dollars (£56million)...
Illegal downloaders face their internet disconnected...
People in the UK who go online and illegally download music and films may have their internet access cut under plans the government is considering...
Data on a PC is stored on a hard drive. Basically, this is a mechanical spinning platter with a read/write head above it. In appearance its rather like a record deck and stylus arm, all in a metal enclosure about 6" x 4" x 1".
They are normally very reliable, and a hard drive failure is rare. If you do suffer a hard drive failure, chances are the machine won't even start up properly, giving you a doom laden message about data being irretrievably lost.
Viruses can also cause files to be deleted, and some can even delete system files or even erase the drive completely.
Then there's user error. If a manufacturer's recovery software has been used to correct a computer problem, this can also overwrite vital saved data.
We can very often recover such apparently lost data. We would need the machine in our workshop as this is not a job that can be done on site. We can then arrange to have the PC restored to its former glory with the data recovered to it, or simply recover the data to a CD, DVD or another hard drive.
Even in the event of total mechanical breakdown, all is not necessarily lost. Hard drive mechanical repairs need to carried out under cleanroom conditions, as even a tiny spec of dust can be devastating if it got into a spinning drive. In such circumstances we are agents for one of the countries leading data recover companies-CBL, and can arrange for them to carry out the necessary work.
Data recover can be time consuming and expensive, so we can minimise the risk of this happening again, or at all, by advising on a variety of back up solutions.
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