I told you so
I hate to ba an I told you so, but it appears that I was right at the start of the year that a platform that would see a rise in attack profile, would be the Mac.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8096822.stm item about the latest threat.
Don't leave it to chance, if you have a mac you are at risk, get some protection on it, and do it today.
Labels: computer security, limbtec, mac, threat
We have spent the vast majority of the last ten days cleaning up computers, from worm and viruses. Some have been the worm mentioned in the title above, linked from the BBC.
Simple steps to keep your computer secure.
- Ensure you patch your software, not only the Microsoft ones, but from any vendor.
- Make sure you have security software installed
- Make sure this software is up to date
- Ensure you carry out a full scan at least once a week
- Make sure your firewall is configured correctly and turned on
This will make it harder for any attack, What we find is often these threats come in through a Peer 2 Peer product (such as Limewire).
We are aiming to blog twice a week from now on, hopefully on Wednesday, and Sunday. But then again
Labels: blog, computer security, limbtec, virus, worms
What's next
OK not strictly technical, but thought I would share this publicly.
We have been approached by several local IT companies recently wanting to purchase our company.
Why have i decided to share this. Well firstly just to make sure there aren't too much confusion. And secondly to reassure our customers.
I rejected both bids without any thought for 2 reasons
Firstly we are a family run company and for the
foreseeable future this will continue, and secondly we focus on quality and not quantity. I'm not saying the companies involved do a bad job, but to extend their business they are looking for
quantity and I firmly believe that
quality will suffer.
We will be growing this year. But we are still weighing up our options. However we decide to grow we will not let quality suffer, and indeed will actually be looking to improve quality by growth.
I will be keeping you posted on this first here on the blog.
Labels: limbtec, plymouth
Vista
Well, Vista was released to business last week. If you want to upgrade talk to us.
We are currently working on sorting out some demo evenings for early next year, more details will be published later.
Any system we ship from now and the release of Vista to the public will include a voucher to upgrade from windows XP to Windows Vista.
Labels: limbtec, plymouth, uk, vista, windows
Well we have been busy building the website for out anti-spam/anti-virus email solution.
Although you can't yet sign up on line we have created a website where you can see what it is, and how much it will cost you.
We choose to use a
CMS for this site, and thought we would give
Joomla a try. Partly because a customer uses it for their
website, and partly just to check out how quickly we could build a useful site. It took just a couple of days to get most of the site done, and most of the work was finished within 7 days. All we have to do is to add keywords to the pages. If you want a site which includes management then give it a go. There are many add-ins, and templates, with a lot of them being free.
Labels: anti-spam, anti-virus, email, joomla, limbtec, scrubber, website
