With a greater need to be connected and with the need to access your data, apps and computer from multiple devices, we are always being asked by our customers, “How can we access our computer when we are not physically behind them?” There can be many reasons you want to access your computer remotely. You might want to access the… Read more →
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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 →
Is Any Computer Really Secure?
I often get asked, “How can i completely secure my computer?” Or “What Antivirus is guaranteed to protect me for sure?” It is a very reasonable questions, but a lot of people do not like my answer. And that is, none! I am not confident the slightest, any antivirus program, any firewall or any computer is secure, specially when it… Read more →
Worried Your Computers Had Been Hacked
Motive for Hacking Your Computer There are many reasons why someone would want to hack your computer. It use to be and still is, people will do it simply for fun, because they can and like the challenge. But, the main reason in this digital age people do it is for information, with the end game being profit. The bad… Read more →
Laptop Stopped Working When Travelling
We see this from a lot of people who have been travelling, always on the move or students coming to and from school or university and either need their computer back up and running or need data recovery in Townsville. Lots of people use laptops now. The ability to just drop everything and pick up at a moments notice and… Read more →
Someone Has Accessed My Computer
Why Would Someone Want To Access My Computer WWW should sand for the Wild Wild West not World Wide Wed and thats because thats exactly what it is. With no real law and anyone from anywhere just about able to reach, connect or communicate with you, the internet is the worlds largest group of people who want to be your… Read more →
Port Forwarding
What are Ports When accessing the internet, your computer most likely has a private and public IP address. Your IP address (Internet Protocol) is a unique address assigned to your network which distinguishes you from every other computer/network on the internet. Loosely speaking, when you request a web page in your browser such as www.townsvillenerds.com, your computer sends a request… Read more →
Different Types of Hacks
Hacking is such an old fashioned generic term which to the public meant something like a teenage boy in his basement, trying to get onto a government computer and start a war. When in real life most computer programmers hack away at their computer, writing code. There not only seems to be a lot misconception not only what hacking is,… Read more →
Remote Access Your Computer with Teamviewer
Being able to access your home or work computer from another location, including your phone can be a very valuable recourse. Whether its because you constantly need to check something on your computer like downloads or messages, or its a one off where you have forgot something for work or study and don’t want to travel all the way back and… Read more →
Call Scams Equal Computer Scams
Already this second half of 2016 we are seeing a lot more people get scammed and computers hacked. Unlike traditional computer hacking, where you imagine some teen boy on his computer under a house, most of the scams and people being taken advantage of (we are seeing) are coming from people in which the scam is actually starting over the phone.… Read more →