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Are You Being Spammed? Tips to Protect Yourself
Spam 101
From Our Friends at Integrity Computer Consulting and Repair
Technology scams are running rampant right now, whether they come by email, phone call, and now text messaging. We have had several customers reach out about texts that look to be from their bank asking to "verify information." Be vigilant when dealing with any communications via phone call, email, or text that regard any exchange of money or "verifying" any account information with a link or number to call.
Our recommendations are as follows:
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Should You Upgrade to Windows 11?
Windows 11
From Your Friends at Integrity Computer Consulting and Repair
(If you own a Mac, this doesn't apply, your OS is updated yearly.)
Many of us have seen the update for Microsoft's newest operating system (OS), Windows 11 come through on our laptop or desktop PC. Some of you have likely had it automatically applied.
If you have NOT seen the update, your computer may be too old to upgrade. This is not a cause for concern!
Anyone can stay safely on Windows 10 unti...
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Tech Resolutions for 2022
2022: New Tech Habits
From Your Friends at Integrity Computer Consulting and Repair
A few ideas and some new, some old - tried and true… start 2022 with some new tech practices!
- Backup, backup, backup! Whether you rotate a flash drive or hard drive, or use an online/cloud backup service, backing up and checking that backup is critical. Irreplaceable or important family photos/documents/files? Back up to the cloud.
- Set a reminder every week to perform general tech maintenance: check your backup, scan for malware, apply any w...
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Protecting Against Data Breaches
Data Breaches: Safeguard Yourself
From Your Friends at Integrity Computer Consulting and Repair
A constant reminder: people are always wanting to steal your information. Please take a moment to refresh on our best practices:
We recommend you do as many of the following to help safeguard your information:
- Cash is king! Pay with cash when buying goods locally. The fewer instances of your card information being available to retailers, the less likely it is to be stolen.
- Use...
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Dealing with Junk Email
More Email Best Practices: How should you handle junk email?
From Your Friends at Integrity Computer Consulting and Repair
We all are familiar with that random email from a weird sender that makes it into your inbox, that phishing attempt on your non-existent Dropbox account, a message to verify your Apple ID, or even emails you may have subscribed to that are just plain annoying… how do you get it to stop? Unfortunately, email spam is almost more common than legitimate messages it seems.
How you handle email messages is su...