FBI SECURITY WARNING

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I have a job for each one of you today when you return to your computer.        Go to www.dcwg.org to see if you’re one of the 570,000 computer users around the world who will lose internet access on July 9th.   This FBI security partner will tell you if you’ve been infected and explain how to fix the problem.

 The FBI says, this announcement is not a Y2K scare or a joke, but a real scam perpetrated by hackers who took advantage of vulnerabilities in the Microsoft Windows operating system to turn off antivirus updates and change the way computers translate web addresses into IP addresses owned by the attackers. The scam has netted at least $14 million so far, according to the FBI. Don’t let them get more – and don’t let you computers rely on the rogue servers for your internet browsing.

 Again, go to www.dcwg.org  today – or call Dr. Bob, the Computer Doctor if you have questions.

4/22/2012 Inland Valley Daily bulletin artical

Grandpa And The Computer by Oppossum Sally

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The computer swallowed Grandpa
Yes honestly, its true.
He pressed ‘control’ and ‘enter’
And disappeared from view.

It’s devoured him completely
The thought just makes me squirm.
Maybe he’s caught a virus
Or been eaten by a worm.

I’ve searched through the recycle bin
And files of every kind.
I’ve even used the internet
But nothing could I find.

I asked Jeeves in desperation
My searches to refine.
The reply from him was negative
Not a thing was found online.

So, if someday in your ‘InBox’
My Grandpa you should see.
Please ‘Scan’, ‘Copy’ and ‘Paste’ him
In an e-mail back to me.

 There times when I wonder whether I am Grandpa.
 
My thanks go to Oppossum Sally for this poem
 

DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME

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Last night (Saturday) the time changed and we lost an hour. To deal with this biennial event, I ask you to add two steps to the list that reminds you to change the batteries in your smoke detector.

First, buy extra batteries so you can change the the batteries in your uninterruptible power supplys (UPS) if they need changing.  It’s hard to know when to do that so I suggest you change them THIS year and add a label with the date. Then you can sleep in late for 2 years until March 2014 when you will need to change them again.

Second, check to make sure your computers’ clocks are correct. They are supposed to change automatically, but you know the three things you can’t control – death, taxes and computer problems.

If you run into trouble, call me Dr. Bob the Computer Doctor, because I still make house calls in Southern California’s Inland Empire.

Mega, Giga, Tera

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Million, billion, trillion — megabytes, gigabytes, terabytes — the size of the average computer hard drive continues to expand. Years back we learned to backup 20 megabytes without too many problems. Now with modifications to your computer, two hundred thousand megabytes (200 gigabytes) can be backed up to keep your data safe. It takes time to backup however, and even greater time to recover data, especially if it means you need to search all the files to find a single file. With even small companies moving into the 1,000,000 megabyte (1 terabyte) world, the time it takes to back up and recover data is getting out of hand.

Last week I went to Symantec’s  launch of a new family of BACKUP EXEC products that address backup and recovery issues with greater compression, better recovery, and up to 100 times faster backup. Even more exciting, a single file can now be found drectly and rapidly. This means you can keep your computer backed up whether it talks in millions, billions or trillions of bytes.

Can you use one of these products for your business?