Regulators from five countries joined together in an operation to crack down on a series of companies orchestrating one of the most widespread Internet scams of the decade. English-speaking consumers in the United States, Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, and the U.K. were targeted in the global scam. Most of the scammers were based in […]

The incidence of scam telephone calls from companies claiming to be working in association with ‘Microsoft’ is on a rapid increase again! The cold calls claim that your computer has been detected as having serious problems and they then launch into a conserted effort to get you to log into a web site, which gives […]

Microsoft has released a series of SkyDrive cloud storage apps, making the use of this cloud storage more intuitive. On Monday Microsoft released clients for existing Windows Vista and 7 users, as well as for Mac OS X users. As with Dropbox, this client integrates right into Windows Explorer or Finder, acting as a virtual […]

The switchover in London starts on the 4th April. On that day BBC2 analogue will be turned off and the process completes on the 18th April with all the other stations shutting down. With the Olympics and Paralympics almost upon us, don’t get left in the starting blocks.  If you decide to splash out on a new TV to […]

With today’s smart TVs, smart phones, laptops, tablets, storage systems, games consoles, set top boxes and wireless networks it’s sometimes difficult to get them all to work together to achieve all the advantages they have to offer. We can advise and help you to understand, connect up and integrate all of these to ensure you […]

Fake ‘Tax Refund’ Emails are on the increase again.We’ve received 8 in the last 48 hours mentioning refunds of between £200 and £1000. Example After the last annual calculation of your fiscal activity, we have determined that you are eligible to receive a tax refund of 973.90 GBP. Please submit the tax refund request and allow us 5-7 […]

The incidence of scam telephone calls from ‘it maintenance companies’ is increasing rapidly.I’ve had reports of more than 20 clients receiving the phone calls over the last 4 weeks. They claim to be ‘working with microsoft’ or other large organistions and state that your machine is infected or running slowly. Beware of these people, they are out to scam you!!

Many clients are receiving cold calls from companies purporting to work with Microsoft and informing them that their machines are infected with a virus/spyware.The caller then proceeds to try to get the client to download a piece of software which will give them access to the computer. Once this is done they download a ‘scanner’ from […]