Last November, six Estonian criminals were arrested on charges of internet fraud. They were behind a bit of malware called DNSChanger, which had infected roughly 4 million computers. The malware would change where name lookup requests went, routing them through the criminals server. Since just shutting down those servers would leave the infected people with no internet access, temporary clean servers were set up.
This is all fine and dandy so far. The problem for people who are still infected is that the servers are scheduled to be shut down on July 9th. You should check your computers for infection by going to http://dns-ok.us If you don’t see a green page when you visit, you need to clean you PC asap.
DNS Changer
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Have you backed up your data today?
April 24th, 2012There was once a time when all the records for your business were kept on paper, but those days are long gone for any but the smallest of companies. The data you store on your computers is the lifeblood of your operation, for without it you are lost. If you do not have a plan for backing up your data, you are living on borrowed time. A good rule of thumb comes from Leo Laporte at Tech Guy Labs. If you don’t have three copies of your data, with at least one of them offsite, you’re not really backed up.
There are several options for backing things up. The simplest is to copy your pertinent files to a portable drive that you take with you. The downside to this method is that you have to remember to do it regularly, and many people just can’t manage to do that. Far better is to use a service that does this automatically. The best known of these is Carbonite, which is very inexpensive for basic use. If there is a downside to Carbonite, it is that large restores can take a long time.
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