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Remote Access Requests in Light of Non-Essential Ontario Business Shutdown

Today the Ontario government announced that all non-essential businesses are to close in Ontario. Businesses that can operate remotely are encouraged to do so and must prepare quickly. “Workplaces that can run with employees working remotely now have just under...

Response to the Coronavirus Outbreak

Yesterday the World Health Organization confirmed that the coronavirus outbreak has met the definition of a pandemic. As an IT support company, we are frequently in the company of clients and can touch many keyboards in any given day. As such, it has always been our...
How Do I Open a Port?

How Do I Open a Port?

It’s fairly often that a client will call and suggest that a software or hardware vendor needs them to “open a port” for their product to work. This is at best a misleading request and at worst a meaningless request as far as most smaller businesses...

Windows 10 Will Soon Reserve Disk Space for Updates

The March 2019 release of Windows 10 will reserve disk space for Windows updates to resolve an issue where Windows update doesn’t bother to check disk space before installing.  

The Best Wi-Fi Cams For Your Amazon Echo

If you have an Echo Show or Echo Spot, it can be paired with a compatible Wi-Fi cam to bring up the video feed on the display. If you’re in the market for a Wi-Fi cam and want it to work with Alexa, here are the best ones for the job Amazon Cloud Cam ($119) If...

Acer’s New Chromebook is Cheap, Big, And One of the First to Run an AMD Processor

.entry-header At CES 2019 Acer took the wraps off a new Chromebook, and it’s one of the first to use an AMD processor. Like so many of the company’s other Chromebooks, it’s an entry-level model. At first blush, there isn’t really anything remarkable about the...

Windows 10 Is Only Making Windows Fragmentation Worse

With Windows 10, Microsoft wanted to get every Windows user on the same platform. Now, the opposite is happening. Just 6.6% of Windows 10 PCs have the October 2018 Update over three months after its release. The Numbers These numbers come courtesy of AdDuplex, which...

Windows 10 Home Will Finally Let You Pause Updates

Only Windows 10 Professional users can pause Windows updates today, but that’s about to change. Windows 10 Home users will soon be able to pause updates for up to seven days. This feature should arrive for everyone when the next release of Windows 10, codenamed...

Ransomware roundup: Targeting servers, government, honoring Donald Trump and Voldemort

Security researchers have discovered more ransomware under development, namely one paying homage to Voldemort and another featuring Donald Trump, as well as one variant currently targeting servers and yet a different ransomware hitting government agencies and...

Free decryption tools now available for Dharma ransomware

Computer users who have been affected by the Dharma ransomware and have held onto their encrypted files can now restore them for free. Researchers have created decryption tools for this ransomware strain after someone recently leaked the decryption keys. Dharma first...
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