by Joseph Forbes | Jan 16, 2013 | Blog Entry, KnowledgeBase (KB), Technicals
Whitson Gordon “Defrag” is short for “defragment,” which is a maintenance task required by your hard drives. Most hard drives have spinning platters, with data stored in different places around that platter. When your computer writes data to...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 15, 2013 | Blog Entry
This is a very general skill set that covers most tasks I have performed in the residential market. Know How To Google Lets face it, its almost impossible for a technician to know how to fix everything they come across. There are all sorts of strange error messages...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 11, 2013 | Blog Entry, HACKING, Malware Reports
IDG News Service – An exploit for a previously unknown and currently unpatched vulnerability in Java is being used by cybercriminals to infect computers with malware, according to security researchers. An independent malware researcher who uses the online...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 10, 2013 | Blog Entry
I’m a huge fan of Reddit. And therefore I should express myself through my own and someday submit the post on Reddit… for KARMA! However I’m not a karma guy, and I’d much prefer to just post here on my own site to use as an example for...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 8, 2013 | Blog Entry
Spam sucks. Any site which allows unauthenticated users to submit forms will have a problem with spamming software (spambots) submitting junk content. A common technique to prevent spambots is CAPTCHA, which requires people to perform a task (usually noisy text...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 7, 2013 | Blog Entry
Early this month I had to remove some malware from some of my hosted WordPress sites. The malicious code was there for a little while and the sites were blacklisted by google. That’s how we noticed it. I recently added all our sites to Google’s Webmaster Tools,...
