Here is a brief, informative article from one of our partners about the malware threat posed by plugging a flash drive into your computer. We suggest you share this information with all of your organization's employees. Use Safety and Precaution When Using USBs Trend...
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The latest on cyber security, computer support and small business IT from one of New Jersey and New York’s top managed IT service providers.
PRESS RELEASE: New York Geek Girls uses the Enterprise File Fabric for Service Providers to provide, differentiate and enhance their use of Amazon S3 data services
After an extensive product selection, New York Geek Girls adopted the Enterprise File Fabric over a year ago. They provided it as a packaged offering to customers as a value added product bundle for use with existing data services. London, 27th March 2019 - Storage...
How to Create Inbox Rules in Outlook Web Access
If your email is hosted on an Exchange server, you can use Inbox Rules to organize or filter your email before it arrives on your phone or in your desktop mail app. Here's how. (Note: Click on any of the screen shots below to see an enlargement of the picture.) Log...
We Provide Full Business Continuity Assurance
Our disaster recovery solution takes an image of your entire server as frequently as every five minutes to create a series of recovery points. We're proud to provide this critical service to our managed services customers. Full-Server Instant Failover. If your server...
Check Out NY Geek Girls’ New Web Site!!
Just in time for our 13th anniversary (in February), we've given our website a much-needed update and we're very excited. Our previous web site has served us well since 2011. But let's face it. The giant static banner and the sidebar widgets now look a bit dated. On...
From the Washington Post: Run, don’t walk, to replace your iPhone battery for $29
Run, don’t walk, to replace your iPhone battery for $29
From the Times: Security flaw in processors
According to The NY Times, Meltdown is a particular problem for the cloud computing services run by the likes of Amazon, Google and Microsoft. By Wednesday evening, Google and Microsoft said they had updated their systems to deal with the flaw. Amazon told customers...
Why Are We Discontinuing Our Reminder Service?
For several years, several of our residential customers have used our quarterly "reminder" service to schedule their computer checkups. This worked well in a simpler time when threats evolved more slowly. However, as technology advances, we must change our service...
A Reader’s Question: How Can I Protect Myself From Fraud After the Equifax Breach?
A reader asks: With all that is going on in the news with credit theft I would like to know your opinion on who you think is the best identity theft company to purchase insurance from at this time? Lifelock or Identity Guard? This is a great question. While we are not...
A Reader’s Question: How Does My Computer’s Trash/Recycle Bin Work?
A reader wote the following recently: "When I delete something on my computer it goes to trash. When I delete it from trash where does it go?" When you delete an item from your recycle bin, from the user's point of view it's "gone". That means that space on the hard...