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Happy New Year & Cloud Computing Continues to Grow!

Posted by Martin On January 14th

Happy New Year to you, your family and friends from all of us here at Entech! icon wink Happy New Year & Cloud Computing Continues to Grow!

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Photo: The Entech Family at our annual dinner looking forward to 2012.

We hope you had a great 2011, excellent Holidays, and are enjoying 2012 so far!

We’re really excited about 2012, and the biggest buzz in our industry has been, and continues to be, the exponential growth of Cloud Computing.

If you’ve been following our blog, you noticed we wrapped up a series on “7 Ways Cloud Computing Will Change Your Business” (also available as a free eBook) in October.

Over the last few months, we’ve been asked how businesses are actually switching to, and using Cloud Computing.  We’re extremely excited to say we’ve compiled 8 great examples for our new free eBook that will be debuting shortly, entitled:

“8 Ways to Use Cloud Computing in Your Business”

We’ll be reviewing how Cloud Computing helps businesses continue to grow and flourish through having centralized business document storage, secure online accounting & billing (allowing business owners the ability to more closely monitor cash flow!), and even enhance the relationships you have with your clients through online customer relationship management!

Be sure to get your free copy of our “7 Ways Cloud Computing Will Change Your Business” eBook and you’ll automatically be notified of when our new eBook debuts! icon wink Happy New Year & Cloud Computing Continues to Grow!

As always, if you have any technology questions, or need help with your computer systems, or network, please give us a call at (800) 573-0234, or contact us online.  We’re here for you!

Thank you, and Happy New Year!

-Martin

How the “Sality” Virus Took Down 16 Computers

Posted by Martin On October 8th

It happened so fast, and once it did, they knew it was too late…

Sality Computer Virus Managed Anti Virus How the Sality Virus Took Down 16 Computers

Quickly, the icons for their anti-virus software disappeared, and their anti-virus software was inoperable — worse, the virus was spreading throughout their network, doing similar damage to each machine it hit.

All in all, this computer virus outbreak affected most of this particular company’s 16 computer systems, including 2 production servers – resulting in days of downtime.

Unfortunately, we were called after the damage had been done – discovering that one of the first machines to get infected had expired anti-virus software. icon sad How the Sality Virus Took Down 16 Computers

But guess what?

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5 Ways to Secure Your Wireless Network

Posted by Buddy On August 19th

If you’re serious about assuring your home, or business, wireless network is secure, here are:

5 Ways to Secure Your Wireless Network

  1. Setup a network security key,
  2. Use a secure password,
  3. Enable WPA or WEP encryption,
  4. Enable MAC address filtering, and
  5. Disable SSID broadcasting

If you need any assistance in securing your wireless network, feel free to visit YourComputerHelpDesk.com, and we’ll be happy to help you!

Have a great day,

Buddy

Fifth, disable SSID broadcasting

Posted by Buddy On August 13th

Welcome to the Final Tip, in my 5 Part Series on Securing your Wireless Network.

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If you’re looking to protect your wireless network in such a way that your network doesn’t appear to be available at all, this is for you…

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Fourth, enable MAC address filtering

Posted by Buddy On August 8th

Welcome to Tip #4, in my 5 Part Series on Securing your Wireless Network.

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If you’re really concerned about your wireless network, there’s a way to bump up the security even further…

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Third, enable WPA or WEP encryption

Posted by Buddy On July 31st

Welcome to Tip #3, in my 5 Part Series on Securing your Wireless Network.

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Today, there are two wireless network security encryptions that are available.

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Second, use a secure password

Posted by Buddy On July 22nd

Welcome to Tip #2, in my 5 Part Series on Securing your Wireless Network.

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In order for people to connect to your wireless network, it’s incredibly important to assure you’ve setup a password for computers to connect to it.

In terms of a password…

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