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One of the most common ways your computer can become infected with Malware, Spyware or Viruses is through a security vulnerability. What happens is that an unsuspecting user clicks on a malicious link. This malicious code is specially crafted to exploit a known security vulnerability in a commonly used component or application – in this [...]

If you have a Smartphone running Windows Mobile software, backing up your phone’s Call History, Text History, Pictures and Videos is simple… Microsoft has a free program called My Phone that you can install and it will make an online backup of everything on your phone. This way, in case you lose your phone or [...]

Wow – the last 3 months have been a real blur for us. We are finally getting settled into our new space in the Greenbrier section of Chesapeake (Virginia). We aren’t quite 100% done with everything – but its a work in progress. My vision for this space is a creative technical environment. Like I [...]

If you’ve been putting off upgrades to your desktop PCs – now is a good time to go ahead and make it happen – Teklogic can help…
Reduce Costs – Go Green…
Modern Desktop PCs will consume up to 55% less power – this coupled with Power Management Plans from Teklogic can significantly reduce your [...]

I got an e-mail from a client recently that was forwarding me an e-mail that they had received. A paste of the e-mail text below:
<snip> Dear President,    
Hello! Sorry to trouble you!   
We are a domain name registration and dispute organization in Asia, which mainly deal with the global companies’ domain name [...]

We have been hard at work on getting our new website design “release ready”. This is a big milestone for Teklogic that has been quite a while in the making. We are excited to announce our new site is live!
I encourage you to review the new site and provide any feedback that you can think [...]

A distribution list is basically a collection of contacts.It provides an easy way to send messages to a group of people. For example, if you frequently send messages to the marketing team, you can create a distribution list called Marketing Team that contains the names of all members of the marketing team. A message sent [...]

Like many other e-mail users I get jokes, news articles, chain letters and other promotional “stuff” coming to me from vendors and friends alike. Every now and then I run into an e-mail someone forwards me that just doesn’t sound right – I recently got forwarded an e-mail that claimed that Obama’s Whitehouse was now [...]

Malware, spyware, and other junk software makes it onto your computer for a number of reasons:

You installed something you really shouldn’t have, from an untrustworthy source. Often these include screen savers, toolbars, or torrents that you didn’t scan for viruses.

You didn’t pay attention when installing a “reputable” application that bundles “optional” crapware.

You’ve already managed to [...]

PDFs are everywhere these days – like pirates in the high seas!
If you have ever looked at the price of Adobe Acrobat Standard or Professional Editions – its pretty ridiculous. I mean c’mon $299 for Adobe Standard Edition?!? – that just seems like burglary; especially considering the ubiquity of the PDF format these days. [...]