I had a phone call earlier this evening from my sister in law who’d had a rather strange phone call and wanted to check with me. They had received a phone call from someone with an indian accent who claimed to be from ‘windows’. They told her that she had corrupt files on her laptop [...]
I have just had from a client what appears to be the latest scare, which will inevitably result in some kind of infection. This is how it looks, which by the way appears very genuine. From: Abuse Department [mailto:abuse-uk-irl@ripe.net] Sent: 24 September 2010 14:32 To: XXXXXXXXXXXXXX Subject: ISP DISCONNECTION WARNING – ADVISORY ABUSE NOTICE From: [...]
23 Sep
Posted by admin as Business, malware, Microsoft, Security, small business, spyware
Yesterday Microsoft announced that as from early October (no actual date as yet) it will be making Microsoft Security Essentials available for small businesses with up to 10 PC’s FREE OF CHARGE. If you are not already aware of it I would highly recommend taking a look this move signifies a shift in the way [...]
Today is shaping up to be a good end to a good week, not great but then not bad either. It has been a week of working with clients and working on my own business, which has been nice for a change. This afternoon find me setting up virtualization for a client, not just for [...]
Over this last week I have been speaking a lot with a good friend of mine. He is currently setting up the UK office for a German company who provide encryption solutions for businesses. Now, he has come from an ‘employed’ background which means that there has always been a ‘man’ for every job that [...]
As I sat on the grass verge at the side of the A46 at the edge of Newark on Trent I thought of the last 12 hours and how it had ended in defeat for me. For those that know me I don’t take defeat well especially when I have so much passion for what [...]
At the start of this year I decided, in a moment of insanity, that I would set myself a challenge to cycle from home here in Ilkeston to Skegness on the East coast of England and then back again in 1 day. All in this is around 185 miles of cycling which will be between [...]
I truly believe that we are all guilty of seeing with “Rose Coloured Glasses”. For those very few who are not familiar with the phrase, it revolves around the concept of only seeing what you want to see and not the reality. Just because it looks easy doesn’t mean it is There are a number [...]
As with the rest of the ‘sheep’ I was keen to get the new Apple IOS4 installed on my phone as soon as it came out on Monday this week. It took almost 3 hours for the whole process to complete on my iPhone 3G but never the less I plodded on. At the end [...]
Yesterday I went to see my son in his school play called “Do you remember the first time?”. He, along with 3 other children, played the part of adults waiting to go into an interview and they began talking about how it was the ‘first time’ for them. As they began to talk they spoke [...]
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