Our Blog
Tech Pulse
No Internet Connection? How to Troubleshoot Internet Challenges
We all know how frustrating it can be when your internet isn't working... and your work load is piling up by the minute🤯 Firstly, we highly recommend you restart your router. Wait 5 minutes to see if the connection is restored Still no connection? Carry out the checks...
Never, never click a link
There are endless scams that land in your inbox and many of them look like bona fide emails. The latest is an email that appears to come from the DVLA asking you to verify your driving licence or vehicle tax online – you will then be asked for your bank details to...
Cryptolocker revisited
Just as the threat of having all your data encrypted and held to ransom had begun to fade into memory – it’s back. And this time it’s got a few nasty little enhancements. Now it not only encrypts the data on your computer, but goes on a search mission to get...
‘My computer isn’t working properly’
This is why many of our clients employ us – to deal with their staff when they have this complaint! Our first strategy is to log in remotely and see if we can fix the problem via the internet – and it’s still surprising how few people have tried shutting down their...
We’ve moved!
Moving offices can be a bit of a nightmare. It either means doing it over a weekend and hoping that everything works when the staff arrive on Monday morning, or disrupting a working day (or two) while the business is ‘in transit’. One of the things we do for clients...
The bare essentials
We’ve written plenty of blogs about the importance of technology to your business – and how painful it can be when things don’t work, but, so far, we’ve focused on what happens when the broadband fails and all communication comes to a halt. Sometimes the...
When your virus checker is the problem
Many websites offer ‘free virus protection’ downloads, many are part of an affiliate system whereby they introduce customers to specific virus protection (in the hope that they will eventually upgrade to a paid version). Some of these are relatively harmless, but...