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TiGra Networks would be pleased to carry out a free security review of your desktop or laptop PC, when you bring it to our offices at Valleys Innovation Centre, Abercynon and check-in at @ GTi Business Suite on FourSquare . We’ll check for malware and make sure that you have adequate anti-virus and anti...
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Fri, Jun 25 2010
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According to Robert Epstein , Head of Small Business for Microsoft UK, In the current climate, making sure your business projects the right image can be vital to success. If you’re using either free or ISP-provided services, your e-mail address will have the provider’s name in it – like JohnSmith@hotmail...
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Thu, Oct 1 2009
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Filed under: TiGra News, Small Business, IT, Microsoft, 2007 Office System, Best Practice, Internet, Email, Computers, Free Stuff
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Many business start-ups that I speak to are either one or two person micro-businesses, often their IT consists of a personal laptop, upon which is stored their entire company. Accounts, customer databases, marketing collateral, email, everything, all on that one fragile, vulnerable laptop hard drive...
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There is a growing trend of IT consultants selling online backup solutions. While there is no doubt that online remote backup can work if done correctly and with sufficient investment, it is often done in a way that doesn’t adequately protect servers, or is prohibitively expensive. I think this trend...
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Why You Need a Strong Password It is worth reminding ourselves occasionally why we need passwords and computer security and what we are protecting ourselves from. I often talk to people in small businesses who hate the idea of having to use passwords and permissions. They consider that their people are...
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Our advice: don’t bother. Keep your money. We’ve never seen any hard evidence that there is any advantage in a so-called registry optimizer. Under some specific circumstances, they can be useful, but they can also do a lot of damage. The Windows Registry does not need to be cleaned in the same way that...
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In my last article I described ways to encrypt and protect confidential data. Now I’d like to mention something that for most people is an inconvenient truth. That hard drive in your computer, at some time or other, is going to fail. No question about it. Hard drives are delicate, intensely mechanical...
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We all remember 2008 partly for the data protection fiascos that plagued the government and other organisations. Lost tax records here, missing social security information there, a top secret dossier left on a train. The sad thing is that ever since the encrypting file system was introduced in Windows...
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Thu, Mar 5 2009
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Filed under: HowTo, Security, Small Business, IT, Windows Vista, Best Practice, Managed Services, Windows 7, Mobility, Computers
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These days, more and more software companies are releasing “beta test” versions of their software to the general public. People are downloading and installing these betas as if they were released versions. In the right circumstances this can be justified, but I am seeing an increasing number of users...
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Wed, Mar 4 2009
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Virus warnings are almost always hoaxes. Even if they’re not, forwarding the warning to your friends and colleagues can do more harm than good. My simple advice is this: press delete . Virus warnings and hoaxes are one particular flavour of chain email. For in-depth information on why you should never...
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It seems there is an instant messenger virus at large at the moment. The virus sends messages similar to these (the URLs are deliberately obfuscated): "Hot or Not? hxxp://mymsngallery.my.funpic de/viewimage.php?youremail@someplace.com" or "this really looks like you hxxp://mymsngallery...
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Sat, Feb 9 2008
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Another blog article I've been meaning to write for a long time: how to construct a strong password. Much has been written on this subject, but it is also out of date. To understand what makes a password strong, first we need to be clear what would make it weak by understanding how black-hats can...
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Fri, Jan 18 2008
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I received the following email today, which is clearly a rather crude hoax: From: <deleted> @hotmail.co.uk To: <24 MSN/Hotmail addresses removed to protect privacy> Subject: PLEASE READ Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:48:22 +0000 Hey it is tara and john the directors of MSN, sorry for the interruption...
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Fri, Jan 11 2008
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