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Switching to a Commercial Grade Router

Protect your small business.  Many small businesses start out with consumer-grade Wi-Fi routers to run their office networks. But there comes a time when an upgrade makes sense.  The only action most small business owners use to protect...

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Windows 7 is Gone: Time to Jump to Windows 10

Until recently, people have been dragging their feet to upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10.  With the drum beat of hassles and patches that were reported from its launch, it is no surprise most people took a wait and see approach to switching over...

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Protect Your Privacy on Search Engines: Try DuckDuckGo.com

In my August blog, “Internet Super Crime Wave?,” I shared several options businesses and individuals can take to protect themselves before they go online, such as using a commercial grade router, bringing your own Wi-Fi to use in public places,...

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In-house Server Set-Up & Management: Pitfalls & Solutions

Every month RB’s Computer Service gains a new client when their server goes down.  While we welcome the opportunity to help, most of the issues we find a solution for could have been prevented when the server was initially set-up and professionally...

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Internet Super Crime Wave?

Secure websites have a green "Secure" lock box in the address bar When the “world wide web” (www) entered our vocabulary 30 years ago we embraced it as the “internet super highway,” a place to get information efficiently and quickly, to...

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Checklist for Employees to Help Prevent a Hack

Phishing scams are constantly evolving to adopt new forms and techniques.  Businesses of all sizes need to take steps to protect themselves.  The average 10,000-employee company spends $3.7 million a year dealing with phishing attacks...

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RB’s Can Help Fix Windows 10 Issues, Patches & Updates

Since the release of Windows 10, on average users have seen about two updates per month or 8 total for all of the supported Windows 10 versions, plus bugs introduced by recent security patches in Windows 7  (Woody Leonhard, Computerworld, Microsoft...

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Gmail’s New Security Features: Delete sent email from recipient’s email box

Not only can you now revoke an email sent to a Gmail recipient but also to non-Gmail accounts (Heather Kelly, CNN Tech, Meet the new Gmail, now with disappearing messages, April 25th, 2018...

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ExaDrive DC100 Solid State Drive is the Fastest in The World!

Storage for 20 Million songs, 20,000 DVDs Computer storage technology has progressed by leaps and bounds in the last few years.  Gone are the days when you would wait for a considerable amount of time during the loading of large applications,...

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Hackers Use Stolen Tools From the National Security Agency

Hackers Use Stolen Tools From the National Security Agency DIY (Do-it-Yourself) antivirus and malware threat protection strategies are limited in protecting your personal computer, business computer or network.  Most DIY’ers use software or a...

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