The ransom is $300 and you’ve got 3 days to pay before it doubles to $600. If you don’t pay within a week then the ransomware threatens to delete the files altogether. Note the “Wana Decrypt0r” title on the window below: the three terms WannaCry, Wcry and WannaCrypt are all referring to the same piece… Read More: WannaCrypt attacks »
The Microsoft Safety Scanner is a free downloadable security tool that provides on-demand scanning and helps remove viruses, spyware, and other malicious software. It works with your existing antivirus software. Note: The Microsoft Safety Scanner expires 10 days after being downloaded. To rerun a scan with the latest anti-malware definitions, download and run the Microsoft… Read More: Microsoft Safety Scanner »
Fastvue interprets log files from SonicWALL to deliver useful web activity reports to HR, Department Managers and You! Designed for anyone concerned about employee internet usage and a very useful tool for SonicWALL administrators Goes beyond simple log aggregation to provide sensible and useful information around web usage and productivity. Collates data from multiple SonicWALLs… Read More: Fastvue Web Activity Reports for SonicWALL Firewalls »
Microsoft Azure customers in the UK can now back up and restore their files from data centres based in this country. The company has announced that Azure Backup and Site Recovery are now available from its multiple cloud regions in the UK, offering companies and organisations reliable, secure and cost-competitive ways to protect important… Read More: Azure customers can now use Microsoft’s UK data centres to… »
If you use assistive technologies, you can get a free upgrade to Windows 10 as Microsoft continues our efforts to improve the Windows 10 experience for people who use these technologies. With the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, we’ve taken a number of steps to improve the accessibility of Windows 10. To learn more, read our… Read More: Windows 10 free upgrade for customers who use assistive technologies »
Applies To: Excel 2016, Word 2016, Outlook 2016, PowerPoint 2016, OneNote 2016, Access 2016, Office 2016, Visio 2013, Office for business, Office 365 Admin, Office 365 Small Business Admin, Skype for Business, OneDrive for Business, Office 2013. You will get this error message if you try to install an Office 365 product or a standalone… Read More: Office installed with Click-to-Run and Windows Installer on same computer… »
Microsoft doesn’t call you to offer tech support and does not provide phone numbers to call on its BSoD security warnings. Microsoft has sounded the alarm over a fake installer for its Security Essentials, which attempts to trick victims into contacting bogus help centres. Microsoft has released a “severe” warning over new Windows malware… Read More: Microsoft is warning Windows users over a fake Microsoft security… »
Active@ KillDisk allows you to destroy all data on hard disks, SSD & USB disks completely, excluding any possibility of future recovery of deleted files and folders. It’s a hard disk drive sanitising tool and partition eraser utility. If you use FDISK, FORMAT utilities, or the standard operating system DELETE command for data removal, there… Read More: How to safely destroy data on your HDD (Active@ KillDisk) »
Microsoft yesterday stopped providing Windows 7 Professional and Windows 8.1 licenses to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), including its PC partners and systems builders. The end of sales for Windows 7 Professional comes a full two years after sales ended for Windows 7 Home Basic, Home Premium and Ultimate. Windows 8 sales ended a few months… Read More: Microsoft stops selling Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 to computer… »
Microsoft is to increase its prices by as much as 22%in the UK because of sterling’s recent decline, a rise that is likely to affect thousands of businesses and could cost the Governments tens of millions of pounds. The price increase, from Jan. 1 2017, will be 13% for its enterprise software and 22 %… Read More: Microsoft to raise prices by up to 22% after slump… »
Users who are running the 2013 version of Office 365 ProPlus after February 28, 2017 will have to upgrade to the latest version of Office 365 ProPlus to continue to receive support from Microsoft. Note This article doesn’t apply to the Office 2013 Professional Plus, Professional, and Standard editions. For the support dates for the… Read More: Support for the 2013 version of Office 365 ProPlus ends… »
The Microsoft Cloud in the UK provides Azure and Office 365 from multiple data centre locations in the UK. Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online will join the line-up in the first half of 2017. The local offering brings world-class reliability and performance combined with data residency to government departments, regulated industries and other businesses alike. … Read More: Microsoft becomes the first global provider to deliver complete cloud… »
We have received reports of yet another ransomware. KillerLocker ransomware is not vastly different from other ransomwares that we have seen in the past. It encrypts the victim’s files and shows a warning once it finished its job. This time, the warning uses a creepy image of a killer clown. With killer clown attacks all… Read More: KillerLocker Ransomware »
Microsoft has opened Azure data centres for Azure and Office 365 in the UK. Azure has two new regions, UK West which is listed as Cardiff but is probably in Newport, and UK South which is listed as London but is probably near London. Office 365 (just Exchange Online and SharePoint Online at this time)… Read More: Microsoft Azure and Office 365 data centre go live in… »
Internet pioneer Ray Tomlinson, who is credited with the invention of email, has died at the age of 74. The US computer programmer came up with the idea of electronic messages that could be sent from one network to another in 1971. His invention included the ground-breaking use of the @ symbol in email addresses,… Read More: Email inventor Ray Tomlinson dies at 74 »
The year 2015 was a milestone for the technology realm. Both eBay and Amazon ditched their teenager tags and celebrated 20 years in business, while IMDb turned 25. Elsewhere, the humble .com domain name reached 30 years of age, as the first dot-com domain was registered in March 1985. However, 1985 was a notable year… Read More: Microsoft Windows was launched 30 years ago today »
In order to update the SharePoint databases, you must manually run the PSconfig utility. 1. Open an Administrative command prompt. 2. Change directory to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\%VERSION%\BIN 3. Run PSConfig.exe -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b -force -cmd applicationcontent -install -cmd installfeatures
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What are REIN and SHINE? Repetitive Electrical Impulse Noise (REIN) and Single Isolated Impulse Noise (SHINE) describe interference that can affect the stability and performance of a Broadband service. In both cases, a power source is generating interference in the frequencies used by the ADSL Broadband service. REIN is where this interference is generated for… Read More: Understanding REIN and SHINE »