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Cryptowall is a variant of the old Cryptolocker Virus or Trojan horse that encrypts files on the compromised computer. It then asks the user to pay to have the files decrypted. We call that type of exploit Ransomware! The Department of Justice infiltrated the Cryptolocker servers and put up a website https://www.decryptcryptolocker.com/ to allow victims to decrypt their files for free.
Starting this year, to celebrate 25 years of success, Micro Doctor is holding several of these one-of-a-kind business mixer events. The first event was at the Trumbull Country Club in Warren, Ohio. The latest event was held at the Magic Tree Pub and Eatery in Youngstown, Ohio.
Micro Doctor has taken a new concept in marketing and bought it to Northeast Ohio. In the planning stages for months, it took hundreds of man hours to create the perfect event for businesses in Trumbull County to get together and mingle. The concept of an after work wine tasting combined with a business mixer is a unique marketing concept.
Have you ever been browsing the web, harmlessly minding your own business, and then BAM! the antivirus software pops up “VIRUS DETECTED”? Or one afternoon you login to Facebook, and your friends are messaging you asking about the free iPad’s you are giving away? It is clear to say Virus attempts have evolved over the years, as well as new names to help identify all of them.
Micro Doctor has been hard at work evaluating the effects of Heartbleed Vulnerability and whether or not we have any potential concerns for your systems. The first thing we did was look at our internal and external servers. Luckily our main security vendor, Sonicwall, protects us and our servers from any Heartbleed exploits.
Next month on April 8, 2014, Microsoft will stop supplying security updates and patches for Windows XP and Office 2003. So does that mean you have to instantly replace all your computers running Windows XP?
It was late evening last Sunday when my home phone rang. I don’t recognize the long distance number, so I decided to answer the call in case it was something important. The foreign voice that interrupted my evening was Windows Technical Department.
Taken from CSI Vegas episode where Nick Stokes got buried alive and only has so many hours to live. This virus holds your data ransom and demands a payment to get it back.
In the case of the Crypto Locker Virus, it encrypts your valuable data and then requires you to pay ransom money or it all is destroyed in 100 hours.
Microsoft is struggling to revive sales of Windows 8 by releasing the long awaited Windows 8.1 product. It promised to do 2 things that corporate users have been asking for, bring back the Start Menu and allow users to boot to desktop instead of tiles. Microsoft’s first attempt to go to a touch enabled OS was a huge failure. Even when comparing Microsoft’s own apps the Desktop Version of….
Micro Doctor previously had about 20 Servers in our Warren, Ohio corporate office and data center. A couple of years ago we started a project to virtualize our data center servers. This means that we transitioned what were previously many separate physical servers, into just a few physical machines that each hold multiple virtualized servers. The reasons we wanted to do this were ease of management, lower cost of hardware per server