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Protect Yourself Against Scams

The information below is based on a leaflet produced by Santander Bank called “How to Protect Yourself Against Scams” and outlines how the most common scams work. Telephone Scams Request to transfer funds This involves a fraudster calling you and posing as your bank or another organisation. The number they’re

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Computer Health Checks

Do you want a regular or one-off computer health check? Sometimes even when everything appears to be running ok, there can be malware (viruses, trojans, adware, etc) installed on your computer that is slowing it down, spying on your online activities or showing you annoying adverts that take over your

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Windows 10 Upgrade

Windows 10 is the latest (and supposedly final) operating system from Microsoft. Users can upgrade their computers running Windows 7 or Windows 8/8.1 to Windows 10 for free until July 29th 2016. Many people that are comfortable with using a computer will probably be confident with performing this upgrade themselves;

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Want to try Linux?

Linux is a free operating system that is widely used on computer servers throughout the world. Approximately 36% of all web servers run Linux, and 97% of all supercomputers run Linux. Linux usage on the desktop is much lower (approx 1.3%), but is increasing due to the fact that it

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Moving From Windows XP

Microsoft finally stopped supporting Windows XP on April 8th 2014. This means that although XP can still be used after this date, XP users will no longer receive any security updates, which will leave them more vulnerable to malware. I can advise and assist anyone wishing to upgrade from Windows

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