RANSOMWARE REVISITED Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water! Last email I reported on some notable successes in the fight against ransomware – but alas with TeslaCrypt 3.01 – the nasties have removed the weakness that allowed TeslaCrypt up to v3 to be decoded with some (but not much) … Read more
RANSOMWARE NEWS – GOOD AT THAT! You have maybe read my recent scriblings concerning Ransomware! Well – we have some GOOD NEWS! I was at a customer last week and I successfully decrypted a Teslacrypt attacked system – WITHOUT PAYING ANY MONEY!!! In fact – if you have ANY TeslaCrypt variation (it renames your files … Read more
WHATS THE FBI iPhone APPLE STORY ABOUT? You have all been reading about the iPhone that the San Bernardino terrorist left behind and the FBI lawsuit trying to force Apple to ‘unlock’ the phone. So – lets talk about it. Whats involved? and what does it mean? and what are the implications? The Story of … Read more
APPLE Issues – USB C cables – and Office problems with El Capitan! A BIG warning to folks with the NEW Macbooks that use USB C. STAY AWAY FROM CHEAPIE USB-C CABLES! From FIRST HAND experience – as well as hearing it from others – cheap third party usb-c cables can DESTROY THE PORT IN … Read more
DANGER – YOSEMITE UPGRADE & BOOTCAMP I just ran into a HORRIBLE problem with the Yosemite upgrade – and you will too – if you use BOOTCAMP to partition your drive and have Windows 7 as well as Mac OSX on your computer! The Yosemite upgrade seemed to go fine – no warnings no messages … Read more
VIRUSES ON MACS! Really! I’ve seen an alarming trend recently – it used to be I saw a Mac virus about once in several years. (once in 10 years originally!) But we’ve dealt with THREE infected macs in the last 2 weeks. This is alarming. Macs have generally been spared the virus writers attention – … Read more
MacMenders is my newsletter that I send to my mac customers from time to time! I’ll also post them here for all to read 🙂 Thoughts on the Iphone6 – and the Samsung Galaxy I’ve had a 5S for some time – as has Alex – but we had a Galaxy S4 walk in the … Read more
You’ve no doubt seen the stupid ads on TV by PC Matic. And your friends have expressed their concerns. And we at the Eldest Geek have had a LOT of calls and customer visits related to the ending of support for Windows XP… In one word – this is garbage. XP will NOT stop working … Read more
A lot of any computer person’s work these days is virus and data security/recovery. And at The Eldest Geek we have unrivaled expertise here. A lot of computer shops (and G**k Squads) can do little more than back up the data and wipe and restore the system. But you lose all your software! And THEN … Read more
I’ve been watching blogs and such like for years and never really seen the need to participate – but slowly I’ve been changing my opinion and we will be getting into Facbook – and here is my first Blog entry! Blogs are rather interesting – because they have really been around for a LONG time. … Read more