by wwarren | Nov 12, 2014 | Cloud Computing, Internet, Microsoft, Security, Security Alerts, Windows
Microsoft has disclosed a potentially catastrophic vulnerability in virtually all versions of Windows. People operating Windows systems, particularly those who run websites, should immediately install a patch Microsoft released Tuesday morning. The vulnerability...
by wwarren | Feb 1, 2014 | Android, Apple, Security, Security Alerts, Smartphone, Windows
People have been getting riled up about the latest Facebook permission. There’s good reason to be concerned. Now the official response: If you add a phone number to your account, this allows us to confirm your phone number automatically by finding the...
by wwarren | Jan 30, 2014 | General, Hardware, Microsoft, Windows, Windows 7
Geek squad used to be competent albeit overpriced. I now have a client machine here that was diagnosed with a series of problems over the past few months to a year. 1. bad internal nic. new nic was installed. It was a good one(Intel) at least. 2. The machine...
by wwarren | Jan 30, 2014 | General, Hardware, Microsoft, Server 2008, Sophos, Vendors, Windows, Windows 7
ETC Maryland has been working with this client for several years. The network this setup replaced was first installed in 2005 when this clients business first started. Due to ETC Maryland’s forward thinking this system was able to be literally rolled into this...
by wwarren | Jan 14, 2014 | General, Hardware, Microsoft, Office, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8
I know there are many small businesses that are running Windows XP still. As of April of this year Windows XP officially dies. Many programs are simply going to not work anymore as announced by their creators. Sure you can hang onto the old versions but as more and...
by wwarren | Jan 9, 2014 | Hardware, Microsoft, Security, Windows
If you still have a windows xp machine. Contact ETC quickly for upgrades or replacements. If you are content to deal with Windows 8 you can go to any store and pay little for a computer…if you can use the computer with the interface disaster that is Windows 8....