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Do you recall ever seeing a duck on a pond? It looks like it is gliding effortlessly across the water. However, if you look beneath the water, the duck's feet are going a mile-a-minute. Your business and home computers are the same. All your systems are running...

Scammers are becoming more creative in gaining access to clients' personal information. It's actually happened twice in the past 2 weeks. The scammers are just getting smarter and more prevalent. This time it came from 2 different directions. One client received a...

At a couple of recent speaking engagements, several attendees pulled me aside and asked about cell phone protection since a lot of their work was being completed away from the office computer and on their phone. So the question is…should I or should I not have virus...

Welcome to the world wide web. I'll bet that sounds old. Everything is now the internet, or just the net. But as a reminder, it really is the world wide web. Which means not only do you have access to places across the world, the world has access to you and your...

Happy Groundhog Day, Valentines Day, President's Day. The month of February is filled with various events. And don’t forget the upcoming Super Bowl. With the Super Bowl coming up, I thought why not write about how the NFL uses computers. There are many similarities...

Happy New Year! Grab a cup of coffee and (or other hot beverage) and enjoy the snow. It looks like 2022 is off to a wild start with the record breaking snowfall, record breaking high temperatures a couple of weeks ago, and now with the temperature in the single...

Merry Christmas! It's time for Black Friday ads, and great prices. Your inbox is filling with sales ads and...What? a subscription renewal to Norton for $269.25? I don't have Norton. Hmmm, it says they already renewed and the funds were withdrawn from my account. One...

You have a lot to be thankful for if you or your company were not affected by hackers this year. But, if you live in Middle TN, you were affected whether you realize it or not. The colonial pipeline caused gasoline shortages this year at the end of April. The...

You bite the bullet and upgrade your internet modem to the 1 GB speed that every company is now touting as "the speed" necessary to run everything blazing fast. 1GB is equal to 1000 Mbps. So based on 5 devices per household, you should be getting 200 Mbps per device,...

Tragedies and scammers go hand in hand. Covid-19, the flooding in western middle Tennessee, and Hurricane Ida have all contributed to an influx of scammer's websites looking for "donations" to be given to the affected. The problem is, very little or none of the...