IT disasters – A medical practice with the CRYPTOLOCKER virus

  • February 1, 2017
  • IT Guy
  • Hints and Tips
A real account of recent incidents experienced by a Medical practice known to us in Perth, Western Australia (November 2016.) The IT Guys, had provided ad-hoc services to a small doctors surgery in Perth’s Western Suburbs consisting of a server and 5 PC’s. Although...
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IT disasters – A Bakery with a corrupt MYOB backup and Faulty NAS Drive

  • February 1, 2017
  • IT Guy
  • Hints and Tips
A real account of a recent incident experienced by a Bakery known to us in the Perth, Western Australia (December 2015.) A local baker using a single PC to run his business came to us with a failed HDD on his laptop. He...
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IT disasters – A private organisation with FileCryptor Ransomware

  • February 1, 2017
  • IT Guy
  • Hints and Tips
A real account of a recent incident experienced by an private organisation known to us in the Perth, Western Australia (December 2016) infected with FileCryptor Ransomware.  An employee of a private organisation in Perth received a dubious email disguised as an invoice. The email...
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IT disasters – a 24/7 Supermarket with multiple virus infections.

  • February 1, 2017
  • IT Guy
  • Hints and Tips
A real account of a recent incident experienced by a 24/7 Supermarket known to us in Perth, Western Australia (January 2017) with multiple virus infections. The IT Guys manage and monitor the Anti-Virus software of a 24/7 Supermarket through AVG Cloudcare. Unfortunately, they have...
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Computer Ransom Lockout – new twist to Microsoft Support telephone scam

  • September 18, 2013
  • IT Guy
  • Hints and Tips
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Computer Ransom Lockout twist This is an update on our article “If you get a phone call from Microsoft – It is a SCAM… this is what to expect” where we explained that If you get a phone call...
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