Computers - New Lease of Life

30/12/2013

Map to New Lease of Life.

29/12/2013

**New Years special offer**

Breath a New Lease of Life into your Windows PC. If your pc is running slow, may be infected or riddled with unwanted software, toolbars and updaters. Then this offer is for you.

- Freshly installed Windows
- FREE Data recovery
- FREE Backup to CD/DVD
- FREE windows updates, vulnerability patching
- FREE Antivirus updated and configured for your needs
- FREE case and component cleaning (desktops)
- FREE Basic apps (Adobe Reader, Firefox/Chrome, Flash player, Media Player Classic home cinema, stunning fire and aquarium screensavers and beautiful background wallpapers.
- FREE windows tweaks to improve performance
- FREE pickup and delivery (Inverness area only)

Limited offer (ends midnight 31.12.2013)
Only - £30!

27/12/2013

PC Problems post Christmas?
No problem too small!
PM me your issue and to arrange pick up or on-site (in your home) support.

25/11/2013

** Notification **
I will be rebuilding my home PC this afternoon and will have limited access to the internet.

PM me with any requests and I will get back to you as soon as things are up and running. I would estimate 17:00 25/11/2013.

18/11/2013

!!!You must pay £100 to access your own photos, documents and videos!!!

Sounds far fetched, but this is one of the fastest rising types of malware out there.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24964426

The scariest aspect of this is that even if you were to pay the ransom, you will not be able to access your files. I have already seen this malware in actions and you CANNOT decrypt them, you must restore from backup.

*Golden Rule* - Do NOT ever open links or attachments in email that you are not expecting - no matter how 'real' they look.

*Improve Resilience/Recovery from this attack*
- Make sure your Antivirus is updated *at least* daily!
- Backup data you cannot afford to lose to an external Harddrive (make sure you unplug it after copying files). These can be bought from many online retailers for as cheap as their internal versions. High street vendors will charge you a significant markup on external drives. Prices starting at around ~£35 which is a small price to pay to secure such files as 'precious memory' photos an videos.

Detailed analysis, impact and mitigation - https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA13-309A

Tens of millions of UK internet users could be at risk from "ransom" email spam that appears to be sent from financial institutions, police warn.

15/11/2013

http://www.spamzapper.us/uploads/TX/Aa/TXAaWBKGa6aXEykQBPmADg/VirusFound.jpg
Do you use internet explorer?

A new vulnerability has recently been discovered which is currently being exploited by online criminal networks.

Are you at risk?

Top Tips to stay safer:
- DO NOT open attachments in emails unless you were expecting the email and attachment.
- Make sure your Antivirus is up to date and check for updates several times over the coming week.
- Consider switching to a different web browser such as Firefox or Google chrome and avoid using Internet Explorer.

Remember - If you suspect you have been infected, you can contact New Lease of Life by PM for more information or to arrange for the computer to be cleaned (where possible) or rebuilt (data recovery can be arranged).

Give your PC a New Lease of Life!

25/10/2013

There are literally hundreds of different visual styles (skins) for the common scare-ware and ransom-ware programs and these are just a very small example. They look reasonable legitimate at first glance though there are usually tell tale signs giving the game away.