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Business Club Tonight
Octagon Technology is sponsoring tonight’s Business Club Lincolnshire meeting at the Bentley Hotel. Clive is giving a short presentation explaining why you should phone us when you have a problem with your computers. Here is a preview of one of the slides: Thanks to Jo at Fill the Gap and Nicky from Amethyst for their help…
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Why your laptop may crash
Hi all, I have been working on a laptop this week which after a while will power itself off. It turns out that once in its lifetime it has belonged to someone who is a heavy smoker. If you smoke in the vicinity of a laptop or PC they can build up a coating of…
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Meetings today – and daffodils!
For my first day back, yesterday, Martin kept me busy all day so today I am starting on the round of meetings for this week. The first one was with Karen from Evolve Business Developments – someone who knows a lot about Twitter and social media, if you get an opportunity you should go to…
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These Virus emails are getting clever!
I have had a couple of queries this week about another email that is going around. Again this could contain the Cryptolocker virus so please be vigilant. This one comes from The Scottish Court asking for you to appear at a court hearing. This has been flagged as malicious and again if they wanted you…
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My Work This Week
Hi Everyone, Well Clive has been off on Holiday and I have been busy organising things such as: dealing with an office Johanasburg for a project next week Rebuilding a laptop from scratch Organising software licences Getting Quotes Doing our Server Checks Archiving files to protect against CryptoLocker Organising a broken laptop screen to be…
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More Examples of Cryptolocker Email
Hi All, As you may have noticed we have been dealing with this nasty Cryptolocker bug. I thought I would share with you a few insight’s. This virus comes in on an unsuspecting person from major companies that look to be legit. Here is another example: This would look like a pretty good email but…
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Old XP laptop and Linux
In between meetings today, I am changing the operating system on an older XP laptop to a version of Linux. The client has been using this small laptop for when he is out of the office and has been very happy with it. Following a review of his system I had written for him, he…
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My Head’s a Bit Fuzzy – the next podcast
Clive has recorded the latest edition of our podcast My Head’s a Bit Fuzzy. In the show Lizzie and he are discussing the problems that the Cryptolocker trojan poses for businesses. editing and mastering the the show The show is in post production today and will be available for listening to online or for download…
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Cryptolocker is a serious threat to everyone’s data and files
Yesterday Martin and I spent best part of the day helping a client who had Cryptolocker on one of their networked PCs – the problem did not develop into a disaster as they are using our secure data protection software. Below is a document that I have written which is being sent to all our…
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Virus Removal at the weekend
I was called out to one of our contract clients on Sunday. There are still viruses out there that can’t be simply caught by most of the antivirus products on the market. For example they can end up coming to you by email, like this one: These can appear to be from legitimate sources such…
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Just a reminder – there are some bad Trojans and viruses out there…
The BBC has a good article about the Cryptolocker ransomware – which you do not want to infect your computers. Read it here. Clive
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Cover between Christmas and New Year
Although we have no work booked for between Christmas and New Year we are working on Octagon projects and providing emergency support for our clients who are at work. What does that mean, well yesterday I fixed an iPhone, today it was removing a trojan virus, sourcing a new laptop and running the backup and…
