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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Beware Fake Telstra Refund Scam – Take 2

  • August 11, 2016
  • IT Guy
  • Hints and Tips
Are you a Telstra Customer? Then please be made aware of the Fake Telstra Refund Scam email doing the rounds again. On the 14th July we warned Telstra customers about the Fake Telstra Refund scam Beware Fake Telstra Refund Scam...
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Beware Fake Telstra Refund Scam

  • July 14, 2016
  • IT Guy
  • Hints and Tips
Are you a Telstra Customer? Then please be made aware of the Fake Telstra Refund Scam email that we almost fell for today. Here is how it goes…. you receive what looks like a genuine e-mail bill from Telstra,...
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