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Ransomware Protection

RB's Computer Service can help! A massive global ransomware attack known as WannaCry (aka WCry) caused extensive damage and major inconvenience to businesses in nearly 100 countries using Microsoft Windows on Friday, May 12, 2017. According to...

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Protect Yourself Working Remotely: Commercial VS Consumer Grade Routers

Having secure remote access to your company can be beneficial to you being able to work on the road, on vacation, at home or at a customer or client’s location and enter data remotely.  The key thing to concentrate on is secure access...

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Clean your Laptop Cooling Fan

Elk River Health Care Provider Pays Ransomware. Are You Next?

  Last August I wrote about what Ransomware is, shared statistics to highlight the urgency for health care providers and small businesses to take action to protect themselves, and offered our Managed IT Service Agreement as a solution to...

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2 Reasons to Custom Build your Next Computer

2017-Time to Embrace Windows 10 | PC’s the Size of Credit Cards

Happy New Year!  Like every year, there is no shortage of news to share as it relates to personal and business computers.  For the defenders of Windows 7 & 8 & the resisters to Windows 10, NOW is the Time to Act if you want a new or...

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2 Great Christmas Gift Ideas

Intel’s Compute Stick; it is not “like a computer.”  IT IS A COMPUTER.   Intel’s Compute Stick is a full Windows PC computer, just a bit larger in profile than a Memory Stick.  To use it, one simply needs to...

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Get your PC Moving with a Solid State Drive, SSD.

Last summer I wrote a post on a “Lifesaver Stop Patch” for Windows 10 Automatic Upgrade.  Many customers and clients contacted us and took action.  For a number of others, we helped upgrade their computer to Windows 10.  After getting...

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Time to get Serious in 2016! | Back Up your PC & Network.

Few people take it seriously, but backing up your computer files is more important in 2016 than ever before, and will only be more so in the future. (Jim Martin, How to back up your PC, laptop, phone and tablet for free | Keep your files safe by...

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Wireless Security: Just How Private and Secure is your Wi-Fi, Laptop, and Smartphone?

Most people know what the term “hacker” refers to.  But, do you know what “Wardriving” or “Cantenna” mean?   Further, most people have embraced some type anti-virus software for their desktop or laptop as a norm like getting the oil...

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