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Wednesday, September 30, 2009 2:47 PM

Proven anti-virus protection - free - with Microsoft Security Essentials

Viruses, spyware and other malicious software is a real and growing problem - and just as your business PCs should be protected, so should your home computers. Microsoft Security Essentials offers comprehensive malware protection and automatic updates,
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Friday, May 22, 2009 11:56 AM

New security assessment tool on the Microsoft small business website

We've just launched a new security assessment tool to help you get a clearer picture of whether your IT is secure enough. It's free and takes only about 15 minutes to complete. Fraud and online crime are costing small businesses an average of £768 per
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Wednesday, April 08, 2009 1:12 PM

Spam overwhelms email messages

This is a story on the BBC website on a just-published Microsoft security report, which states that more than 97% of all e-mails sent over the net are unwanted. Ed Gibson, chief cyber security advisor at Microsoft, said the rise in spam was due to traditional
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Tuesday, March 03, 2009 10:29 AM

The devasting effects of a fire

I’ve been banging on about IT security, worms and viruses, business continuity (aka disaster recovery) plans and the like, for some time now, and guess what – I’m going to post another one today, although this one is of a more personal nature. Small Business
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009 10:26 AM

Free worm and virus support

I blogged about the Conficker worm ( WORM attack: is your PC secure? ) at the end of January - hopefully everyone who doesn't have automatic updates configured on their PCs will have downloaded the patch now. There are still rumblings in the press though,
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009 5:42 PM

Safer Internet Day 2009

A bit late in the day, but today, Tuesday 10 February, marks Safer Internet Day 2009. For speed, I've just copied this from the CEOP (Child Exploitation Online Protection) website . "Thousands of schoolchildren across the UK are now even better equipped
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Thursday, January 29, 2009 1:27 PM

WORM ATTACK – is your PC secure?

There’s been a fair bit of noise in the press lately on the latest worm attacking Windows XP, called the Conficker virus. This spreads through low-security networks, memory sticks and PCs without current security updates. If your PC is set to update automatically
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Friday, January 09, 2009 12:13 PM

Beware new tax return phishing scam

A news story on the Small Business Centre this morning has flagged a new scam targetting those who haven't yet filed their tax returns (end of this month btw). Self employed people and small business owners have been warned of a new phishing scam targeted
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Monday, November 17, 2008 10:28 AM

Get Safe Online

Today (17 November 2008) marks the start of Get Safe Online (GSO) week, an initiative which promotes online protection and provides clear, reliable and practical Internet security advice to anyone and everyone who wants it. Microsoft is one of the proud
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008 5:15 PM

New Ask the Expert questions - October

" How can I tell whether pop-up updates are real or spam? " and " Will I need to re-learn Word, Excel, Publisher etc if I upgrade to Office 2007? " are the two questions we highlight this month in our Ask the Expert feature. Asif Jinnah, Microsoft UK
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008 2:56 PM

Microsoft urgent security update for October 2008

Microsoft has released an urgent security update for all supported versions of Windows. Please visit the Microsoft security bulletin site http://www.microsoft.com/protect/computer/updates/bulletins/200810_oob.mspx for more information on how to download
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Monday, September 01, 2008 12:39 PM

Computer viruses go galactic

Viruses have now made it into orbit. The BBC news story says Nasa has confirmed that laptops carried to the International Space Station in July were infected with a virus known as Gammima.AG. The worm was first detected on Earth in August 2007 and lurks
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Friday, August 15, 2008 9:51 AM

Free small business resources

‘Free’ is a tricky word – companies like Microsoft don’t like to use it because if you say ‘free training course’ the cost of driving to the venue is not free of course. And your time isn’t free either. So, accepting that you still have to pay for your
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008 2:19 PM

Windows Vista SP1 - making your IT work for you

A secure system not only means your data is protected it means you can devote more time to growing your business. When you're confident that you can find the information you need, quickly and simply, that you can retrieve ‘accidentally deleted' files,
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008 1:51 PM

Malware higher than ever

The number of malicious programs found online has reached an unprecedented high, say security firms ( more ). Security software testing organisation AV Test reported that it saw 5.49 million unique samples of malicious software in 2007 - five times more
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