When you talk social networks there is a good chance Facebook is going to be bought up in the conversion. Its pretty fair consider half the planet pretty much uses it (don’t know the exact current figures). But working with the public and going into peoples homes and businesses we speak to a lot of people in Townsville and learn… Read more →
Year: 2019
Signs Your Computer Might Be Hacked – Part 2
Ransomware and Demands Ransomware is a newer type of virus which infects your computer and infiltrates your system holding your data and files hostage until you pay their demand. They do this by encrypted your data, usually documents and photos making inaccessible to you, with the promise of decrypting in back to readable once you have paid the ransom. However,… Read more →
Signs Your Computer Might Be Hacked – Part 1
I am not a fan of antivirus and anti-malware software. Before I continue writing, I want to say it is very important you use and continue to use antivirus software. There world would be a worse off place without it. But there is a huge discrepancy between antivirus programs. Some are good at aspects, others fail at. There is no… Read more →
Email Spam Filters Townsville
This is not a happy ever after story, where the good guys always win. Ever since people have been using the internet, marketers and scammers have been using the same email technology to spread their agendas, and it seems the internet community have always been behind them in effectively stopping spam emails. Spamming is not just reserved for emails. When… Read more →
Christmas Online Scams
Ever since the internet has been around people have been using it to scam other people out of money. Whether they come at you over the phone, through and email or through a web site, criminals know people are very active during the Christmas holiday season and up there game to scam plenty of Australian computers users out of their… Read more →
Things To Check When You Have No Internet
With so many things connected to your internet now, like television, computers, laptops, phones and even light bulbs and door bells, not having internet can bring your daily home and work life to a sudden halt. Sometimes turning the router and devices off and then back on will fix the problem, other times it fixes itself. Either way, waiting for… Read more →
Can I Get A Virus From Facebook
We get asked this question a lot; can i get a virus from Facebook? As pretty much half the world uses Facebook now and just about every single customer we have in Townsville uses the Social Network giant. every time one of our customers get a virus on their computer they ask us the question. Facebook is a web service… Read more →
10 Signs Your Computer is Infected with Malware
Malware is short for Malicious Software. Computer viruses are part of the Malware classification and be really be any software designed to damaged or disrupt computer systems, networks, files and programs. Over the years Malware has continued to change and do a lot more than damage your system. Now we have a whole lot of different players being sent all… Read more →
Has My Computer Fan Stopped Working
One of the most common problems customers call us about is their laptop has started or started running much hotter over time. It’s easy to think because it is running hotter than it use to, something has gone wrong like, a problem with the cooling, a fan has stopped spinning, or something could be blocked. But the truth is, and… Read more →
Common Website Mistakes
Townsville computer repairs nerds have been developing and building websites behind the scenes for businesses, organisations, personal and professional for customers in Townsville and all over the world since the mid 1990’s. We have seen all the fads come and go, all the jargon and all the latest, lost and forgotten crazes. Even now customers come up to us all… Read more →