by admin on March 3, 2010
What is the single most expensive mistake most business owners make when hiring an IT consultant?
Over the years I have done literally hundreds of network audits and reviews. Over and over again that thing I see most is incompetence and the responsibility. The worst offenders are non-existent backups, security loopholes, shoddy reporting, and sent systems that cost more to maintain and really don’t help the business that much.
Since I started this business we have not had one week where we did not get a “911 crisis call” and these are major technical disasters and worse they could’ve been prevented.
This has bothered me so much that I sat down and wrote a report about what people can do to protect their computer systems. My goal is the educate business people about what to look for in an IT consultant. Just so we’re clear, many of these systems that were not properly set up and maintained already had a so called, “IT Consultant” working on them or having worked on them in the past.
Just so we’re clear about this, many of the “Emergency Calls” we get are because other IT Network companies don’t answer their phones and return phone calls promptly. We do.
There is a Free Offer inside this Report, it’s titled “16 Critical Questions You MUST Ask Before Hiring Any IT Company.”
So go get a copy of this report, remember there’s something that’s free inside the report.
You can get the report here: http://www.manage-point.com/offer-2/
by admin on February 19, 2010
Businesses, local governments, and universities are now reporting being attacked by the Gumblar computer virus.
What is this virus and what does it do? This virus has a criminal intent, it can steal credit card numbers, user IDs, and passwords. In other words it’s another form of identity theft.
How does it work? When people visit an infected website they are redirected to another site that installs this malware onto their computers.
The virus spread around the world last spring and had several variants so the antivirus companies have had an opportunity to put some checks in place.
This is the third wave of attacks for this particular virus. The first two waves were in 2009 and at that time the virus made visitors computers send spam e-mails.
This new variant is much more malicious with its ability to gather credit card numbers and other financial information.
What can you do?
First, make sure your virus software has been updated, right now or at least last night, if not, update now.
Second, if you think something is wrong with your system and your anti-virus list is updated, do a scan.
Third, if you think your system may be infected contact a reputable IT company they can do a complete scan of your system. They can also do a complete check to make sure that all of your firewalls, antivirus programs and all of the other security programs on your servers is working correctly. This is probably the most important thing you can do to keep your systems from being infected.
If you need a regular IT Team, then please consider this, ManagePoint (our company) can be your Milwaukee Computer Network IT Team. That’s what we do. Please call us today, let’s talk about your very valuable information.
Please call 414-456-9837.
