If you’re a victim of ransomware that locks you out of your files or computer with a demand of money for the key help for full recovery is limited, however last week Trend Micro released a free tool that may help some users. I spoke with Tim Falinski from Trend Micro Australia last week about the new tool and the growing[Read More…]
Is it possible that your next door neighbour is helping themselves to your Wi-Fi internet? If you haven’t protected your Wi-Fi with a strong password this could be the case…but how can you tell? Well a quick audit to reveal which devices are connected to your Wi-Fi is what you need. A free program called Wireless Network Watcher can quickly[Read More…]
External hard drives are a great way to expand your computer’s storage capabilities, are easy to use and quite inexpensive…but what do you do when one suddenly stops working. Your first thought may be that you’ve suddenly lost every file on the drive…but that may not necessarily be the case. It may simply be that the external casing around the[Read More…]
If at the start of the school year you bought your child a new computer for school now’s the time to double check the status of the internet security software on it. Tim Falinski from Trend Micro Australia says that many new PCs only come with time limited trial software. I recently spoke with Tim Falinski from Trend Micro Australia[Read More…]
If you’ve ever connected a USB cable to your mobile device then you’ll know that each time you do it you have a 50 percent chance of trying to put it in the wrong way…because they only go in one way. While this problem has been solved with the new USB C standard…that’s not going to help you with[Read More…]
