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How to choose the right Firewall for Your SMB

tkrabec — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:38:16 +0000

Jennifer Jabbusch wrote a nice article on choosing the right firewall. It’s posted over at darkreading.com

Without futher delay here is the link :
Choosing the right Firewall

Fake Anti-Virus Progams

tkrabec — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 18:24:56 +0000

Recently I’ve seen an increase in the infections of computer by Fake Anti-Virus Programs. These are horrible programs, which are tested by their creators to bypass your Valid Anti-Virus program. Not only are they created to get past your Anti-Virus, but they also created to fool the people using the computers, into installing this Malware.

I came across a great list of these Fake Anti-Virus programs
Via Technibble.com If one of these Rogue programs is installed call your IT department or contact your Computer Consultant.

– Tim Krabec

Interview with Chirs Nickerson Part3

admin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:06:43 +0000

Interview With Chris Nickerson part3
The last part of the interview where Chris talks business with the crew.

Your photos are NOT posted online

Aaron — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:35:21 +0000

Some of you may have received an email similar to the one below:

**************

Hey, some jerk has posted your pictures (u understand what kind of pictures are there) and sent a link of them to all ur friends. I have already replied back. Said, that he is an idiot. See the link:

http://photobank.********.****.*****/id1073bv/get.php?email={Your Email is here}

{SOME NAME}

**************

Newsflash folks, they haven’t. Well, at least not the people purporting to have done so in this email!

Educate your users, don’t click on the link. We’ve had a user actually do so and managed to infect their machine. To most, it seems more of a pain to clean it than anything. But let’s put it this way: Your technical company (or your internal technical person) has to go clean this up. Say your outsourcing firm charges $100 per hour. Something like this takes at least 2 to 3 hours to clean let alone ensure it has been eradicated. I’m not counting the checks of ALL your other systems on the network. Now we’re talking more along the lines of 5 or 6 hours. Now factor in the cost of the downtime to the user who has been infected. Now you’re looking at $1,000 or more in real money that has been lost. Now factor in there is the very real possibility this user has had documents lost or destroyed by this virus.

User education doesn’t seem so expensive any more.

More Phishing attempts

admin — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:13:55 +0000

I’ve been seeing more email trying to get me to install patches which are not from Microsoft.

Subject: “Update for Microsoft Outlook / Outlook Express (KB910721)”

Now unless you’ve signed up with Microsoft to receive notifications via email you’re not going to get them. And most certainly the WILL NOT be sending patches via email, except possibly if you’re on an active support call. So once again don’t open attachments, when you’re not expecting them.

Interview with Chris Nickerson Part 2, NOW with BETTER audio

admin — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 03:50:53 +0000

http://media.libsyn.com/media/tkrabec/OSMBMinute-nickerson-SMB_part_2.mp3

Sorry about the audio in part 1.

Interview with Chris Nickerson (part 1)

admin — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:05:44 +0000

Finally after a long Hiatus we’re back

http://media.libsyn.com/media/tkrabec/SMBMinute-nickerson-SMB_part_1.mp3

– Tkrabec

Great Resource for Windows 7 tweaks.com

admin — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:21:34 +0000

Here is a nice tip to keep Aero but lose the transparency to gain some speed

http://tweaks.com/articles/39811/quick-aero-glass-speed-tip/

XP Move for Windows 7 (You need to check to see if the machine supports some HW VBirt)

http://tweaks.com/articles/39847/share-your-screen-with-sharedview/

We’re Conducting a Survey

admin — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:32:33 +0000

Please hop on over to Survey Monkey and fill out this brief 6 Question Survey
Click Here to take survey

Cloud data

admin — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:04:07 +0000

Given the recent problems with the T-mobile Sidekick, I am reminded that we have lots of data in the cloud. Be it data with Google, Amazon, Flickr, LinkedIn, Snapfish, etc. While the cloud is a great convenience for storage and sharing, it begs the question; how do I back up my information?

Lifehacker has a nice article, including links, to tools for backing up some of the data you may have stored in the cloud. http://lifehacker.com/5335553/free-tools-to-back-up-your-online-accounts.