January 12th, 2012 | by josh | uncategorized
Jan
12
I just found this really interesting article about how the proposed ‘Stop Online Piracy Act’ could have a major impact on some legitimate web businesses:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2011/12/16/how-sopa-could-ruin-my-life/
January 11th, 2012 | by josh | uncategorized
Jan
11
O
ver the past month I’ve had two family members contact me in regards to scam phone calls they have a received.
The scam involves a ‘cold’ phone call from someone explaining that they are from Microsoft or your Internet provider. During they call, the caller explains that they have ‘detected’ that your machine is running slowly and is full of viruses, they will probably ask if your computer is running slowley. They ask you to type some commands into the Run box in the start menu, usually inf virus, which immediately pops up a folder. They will ask you if you recognise any of these files, to which (if you arnt an IT Professional) you will answer ‘No’. Read full story
January 11th, 2012 | by josh | it, personal
Jan
11
I’ve been an advocate of Boxee for a few years now. For those of you who don’t know what it is, Boxee is a fork of the popular XBMC media centre, but with a redesigned interface, which is much easier to use, as well as Social media integration.
From the start, Boxee was a cross-platform software only product, but as of about 18 months ago they have been working on a hardware product called the Boxee Box, which as you can imagine, is a standalone device running an embedded version of Boxee. Read full story
December 5th, 2011 | by josh | it, personal
Dec
05
For all of you that haven’t heard, I’ve recently started a new job.
I am now working at Dataswift Network Services, an IT Support and Services company based on the Isle of Wight. We are primarily focused on education and healthcare, but also have a number of corporate customers.
If you are looking for support, please give us a call on 01983 885153.
December 2nd, 2011 | by josh | internet, it, security
Dec
02
As an IT professional, Fake Anti-Virus software is one of the most proliffic issues we come accross on a week to week basis. At best its annoying, at worst, its dangerous and mroe importatntly from a support point of view, it can be very dificult to remove.
Sophos have just release a very interesting whitepaper about Fake AV, how it gets installed, what it does and how to spot it. They obvously want you to buy the Sophos software as the answer, but appart from that its a very useful document.
Click here to register for the download in pdf format.
November 21st, 2011 | by josh | internet
Nov
21
I’d not heard about Pogoplug before. Its a free cloud storage system and I’ve not yet worked out of it does anything different from the many other online storage providers. However, together with Drobo, they are currently offering 10GB of free storage to anyone who signs up before the 28th of November and you cant really turn your nose up at an offer like that!
Click the following link to get to the special sign-up page: https://pogoplug.com/drobogift10/
I’ll keep you posted on my experiences with Pogoplug.
November 21st, 2011 | by josh | security
Nov
21
Just a quick one.
I came accross this via the news aggregator on my tablet earlier on today. Its a list of the top 25 worst passwords used this year from the Huffington Post website. Take a quick look and see if your password is on it. Needless to say that if it is, you *REALLY* need to change it. 
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/18/top-25-worst-passwords-of-2011_n_1101710.html