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Keep Computer Network Safe
How To Keep Your Computer Network Safe From Crippling Pop-ups, Viruses, Spyware, & Spam, While Avoiding Expensive Computer Repair Bills
- Do you constantly get hammered by pop-up ads that come from nowhere and interfere with using your computer?
- Does your computer network run slow, act funny, or crash unexpectedly?
- Are you getting tons of spam from unknown senders?
If so, then the computers on your network are probably infected with malicious programs that could end up destroying your files, stealing your company’s confidential and financial information, and rendering your computer useless.
Don’t Be A Victim To Online Crime!
Cyber criminals lurk everywhere and are constantly finding new ways to harm you. Even legitimate websites have sophisticated methods of snooping into your private information using cookies and spyware. If you want to make sure you aren’t their next victim, read this guide and discover:
- Computer scams, threats, and rip-offs that you MUST be aware of.
- Surefire signs that you are infected with spyware, malware, and viruses.
- Sneaky, underhanded ways cyber criminals access your computer, and how you can stop them dead in their tracks.
- The absolute worst type of program to install for your network’s health; if you or your employees go to these sites and indulge in these seemingly innocent activities and you’re practically guaranteed to get infected with vicious spyware and destructive viruses.
- The single biggest cause of expensive computer repairs – and how to avoid it.
- 6 Simple steps to keep your computer safe from pop-ups, viruses, spyware, malware, and expensive computer repair bills.
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Keep Computer Network Safe
How To Keep Your Computer Network Safe From Crippling Pop-ups, Viruses, Spyware, & Spam, While Avoiding Expensive Computer Repair Bills
- Do you constantly get hammered by pop-up ads that come from nowhere and interfere with using your computer?
- Does your computer network run slow, act funny, or crash unexpectedly?
- Are you getting tons of spam from unknown senders?
If so, then the computers on your network are probably infected with malicious programs that could end up destroying your files, stealing your company’s confidential and financial information, and rendering your computer useless.
Don’t Be A Victim To Online Crime!
Cyber criminals lurk everywhere and are constantly finding new ways to harm you. Even legitimate websites have sophisticated methods of snooping into your private information using cookies and spyware. If you want to make sure you aren’t their next victim, read this guide and discover:
- Computer scams, threats, and rip-offs that you MUST be aware of.
- Surefire signs that you are infected with spyware, malware, and viruses.
- Sneaky, underhanded ways cyber criminals access your computer, and how you can stop them dead in their tracks.
- The absolute worst type of program to install for your network’s health; if you or your employees go to these sites and indulge in these seemingly innocent activities and you’re practically guaranteed to get infected with vicious spyware and destructive viruses.
- The single biggest cause of expensive computer repairs – and how to avoid it.
- 6 Simple steps to keep your computer safe from pop-ups, viruses, spyware, malware, and expensive computer repair bills.
Provided as an educational service by:
Keep Computer Network Safe
How To Keep Your Computer Network Safe From Crippling Pop-ups, Viruses, Spyware, & Spam, While Avoiding Expensive Computer Repair Bills
- Do you constantly get hammered by pop-up ads that come from nowhere and interfere with using your computer?
- Does your computer network run slow, act funny, or crash unexpectedly?
- Are you getting tons of spam from unknown senders?
If so, then the computers on your network are probably infected with malicious programs that could end up destroying your files, stealing your company’s confidential and financial information, and rendering your computer useless.
Don’t Be A Victim To Online Crime!
Cyber criminals lurk everywhere and are constantly finding new ways to harm you. Even legitimate websites have sophisticated methods of snooping into your private information using cookies and spyware. If you want to make sure you aren’t their next victim, read this guide and discover:
- Computer scams, threats, and rip-offs that you MUST be aware of.
- Surefire signs that you are infected with spyware, malware, and viruses.
- Sneaky, underhanded ways cyber criminals access your computer, and how you can stop them dead in their tracks.
- The absolute worst type of program to install for your network’s health; if you or your employees go to these sites and indulge in these seemingly innocent activities and you’re practically guaranteed to get infected with vicious spyware and destructive viruses.
- The single biggest cause of expensive computer repairs – and how to avoid it.
- 6 Simple steps to keep your computer safe from pop-ups, viruses, spyware, malware, and expensive computer repair bills.
Provided as an educational service by:
Google Docs and Sheets
Google has recently released two new apps for Android and iOS devices. The new apps are Google Docs and Google Sheets. A presentation app, equivalent of Microsoft’s PowerPoint is also on the way, called Slides. The two apps work great on both devices, they offer offline capability, in case you want to jot down an idea where you cannot get an internet connection on your mobile device. Both applications are very easy to use and offer a simplistic, not overcrowded design.
However, Microsoft has released its Office Mobile apps for Android and iOS not too long ago. Both companies offer their apps for free, a huge plus. However, now it’s up to the user to see which companies app suits their needs. Respectfully, Microsoft Office Mobile wants to open and save files to their OneDrive service, whereas Google Docs and Sheets give the ability to save content locally on the phone or to upload to Google Drive.
It’s good to see two big companies release some essential apps such as these. Word processing and spreadsheet apps are very useful and a lot of people have trouble finding the perfect one for their needs. With the release of Google Docs, and Sheets, perhaps some people will find exactly what they are looking for.
If you are interested in learning more about Google Docs and Google Sheets, feel free to contact Group 4 Networks.
About Group 4 Networks
We provide Toronto and GTA businesses with IT Support, IT Consulting and Managed IT Services at a fraction of the cost that they would pay a low-level full time IT Manager. Our team eliminates the hassle of dealing with the single knowledge and abilities of a lone “computer guy.” What makes us unique is that we proactively manage our customer’s computer networks to eliminate many of the headaches and hassles of using computers to run a business.
We guarantee our customers a response within 60 minutes or less and are the only IT service provider in the region that offers a 60-Day 100% no hassle money back guarantee on our flat rate all inclusive service plans.
Windows XP end support
As you may already know, Microsoft has officially ended support for Windows XP. If you have machines that are still running Windows XP, you may wonder how this will impact your protection and system security. To help address your questions, we’ve crafted a blog post that addresses a few important things we think you should know.
You can find the post here:
https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/blogs/what-endpoint-protection-customers-need-know-about-windows-xp-end-support
Should you find that you have other questions or if you need technical help, please contact the Customer Support Team: [email protected]
Sincerely,
The Group 4 Networks Customer Communications Team
About Group 4 Networks
We provide Toronto and GTA businesses with IT Support, IT Consulting and Managed IT Services at a fraction of the cost that they would pay a low-level full time IT Manager. Our team eliminates the hassle of dealing with the single knowledge and abilities of a lone “computer guy.” What makes us unique is that we proactively manage our customer’s computer networks to eliminate many of the headaches and hassles of using computers to run a business.
We guarantee our customers a response within 60 minutes or less and are the only IT service provider in the region that offers a 60-Day 100% no hassle money back guarantee on our flat rate all inclusive service plans.
Microsoft Updates Windows XP Users for IE Zero-Day
Microsoft releases an emergency update for the Internet Explorer vulnerability.
Microsoft isn’t quite yet ready to abandon its Windows XP users to security threats. Today Microsoft is releasing an emergency out-of-band update for a zero-day vulnerability, identified as CVE-2014-1776, that was first publicly disclosed on April 26. 
The Internet Explorer flaw impacts versions 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 of the Web browser with a remote code execution vulnerability. CVE-2014-1776 is particularly noteworthy in that it is the first publicly reported flaw that impacts the Windows XP operating system since that operating system officially hit its end of life with Microsoft’s April 8 Patch Tuesday update.
“The security of our products is something we take incredibly seriously,” Adrienne Hall, general manager of Microsoft Trustworthy Computing, said in a statement. “When we saw the first reports about this vulnerability we decided to fix it, fix it fast, and fix it for all our customers.”
Although Microsoft is providing an update for Window XP users, that doesn’t imply that Microsoft is now changing direction and extending support for Windows XP overall.
“We have made the decision to issue a security update for Windows XP users,” Dustin Childs, group manager of Microsoft Trustworthy Computing, wrote in a blog post. “Windows XP is no longer supported by Microsoft, and we continue to encourage customers to migrate to a modern operating system, such as Windows 7 or 8.1.”
There are a few things that make this update really interesting.
For one, this is the first out-of-band security update for IE so far in 2014. Microsoft usually only issues security updates on the first Tuesday of every month, and to go out-of-band is not all that common, even for zero-day flaws. On Feb. 13, FireEye reported the CVE-2014-0322 IE zero-day security vulnerability, which Microsoft did not patch until Tuesday, March 11, in a Patch Tuesday update.
The fact that Microsoft has also included Windows XP users is also interesting. Many had assumed that Window XP users would now be at risk from all new flaws that pop up, but this incident proves that’s not necessarily the case.
Microsoft is taking security seriously, even for those that it claims it no longer wants to support.
About Group 4 Networks
We provide Toronto and GTA businesses with IT Support, IT Consulting and Managed IT Services at a fraction of the cost that they would pay a low-level full time IT Manager. Our team eliminates the hassle of dealing with the single knowledge and abilities of a lone “computer guy.” What makes us unique is that we proactively manage our customer’s computer networks to eliminate many of the headaches and hassles of using computers to run a business.
We guarantee our customers a response within 60 minutes or less and are the only IT service provider in the region that offers a 60-Day 100% no hassle money back guarantee on our flat rate all inclusive service plans.
Time’s up on Windows XP
Some experts have questioned whether Microsoft will really end support, bug fixes, and security patches for Windows XP on April 8, 2014, as it has previously announced. My guess is that Microsoft will stick to its guns. And so it’s finally time for the XP holdouts to join the real world.
About Group 4 Networks
We provide Toronto and GTA businesses with IT Support, IT Consulting and Managed IT Services at a fraction of the cost that they would pay a low-level full time IT Manager. Our team eliminates the hassle of dealing with the single knowledge and abilities of a lone “computer guy.” What makes us unique is that we proactively manage our customer’s computer networks to eliminate many of the headaches and hassles of using computers to run a business.
We guarantee our customers a response within 60 minutes or less and are the only IT service provider in the region that offers a 60-Day 100% no hassle money back guarantee on our flat rate all inclusive service plans.