If we find ourselves faced with a quarantine / lock-down situation such as in China and now Italy and Iran, where our businesses may be closed by order of the authorities, what’s YOUR backup plan? Can you remotely access your work servers or cloud services? Is it SECURE? Remote Desktop exposed to the world is a bad idea due to …
’twas the nite before Christmas – the computer version
Merry Christmas!!!!! May this holiday and the new year be filled with joy and happiness, and your time spent with family & friends, not fighting with your computers and networks! Be safe if you are road-tripping! We will be closing the office early today, the 24th and return Friday the 27th. However, as always, should you need us for computer …
We’re celebrating our 10th year!
As I was meeting with a prospective client and telling them about our business last week, I suddenly realized that day was the 10th anniversary of Homeland Secure IT opening our doors for the first time! We have been so busy providing sales and service to our customers that we let the date slip up on us and didn’t get …
Homeland Secure IT means business!
Exciting news! In 2018, we stopped accepting walk-ins at our location on Mauldin Rd in Greenville SC, and began to focus our energy on what we do best, on-site, remote and managed business services. We entirely phased out home / individual services except to owners and staff of our existing business clients. Part of that decision was directly influenced by …
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PSA: Those Emails from Microsoft are probably fake…
If you have not received a phone call by now claiming to be a representative from Microsoft stating your computer is at risk, then you are lucky. You’re much less lucky if you *have* received one of those calls and believed them. They sure sound convincing. The new fad is to send emails that look very convincing, with links to …
Send me Bitcoin or I will expose you for visiting porn sites – scam / sextortion
Hey friends, I woke to find an email from a client who said they were being extorted for thousands of dollars and wanted help in securing their computer. Turns out, I also received an email today from Spiceworks which addressed the exact same email… The email looks like this: — From: Ciel Quan <mxwendelcs@outlook.com> Date: July 12, 2018 at 12:43:49 PM EDT …
We’ve been nominated Best of the Upstate – Best Computer Services!
In this day and age, where the “big boys” are the only ones who can afford TV and print ads, it’s amazing when a small, local business gets a little blurb out there… Especially when it’s “free” so to speak…. You see, each year, for as long as I can remember, The Greenville News has sponsored a reader driven “Best …
We’re about to celebrate our NINTH YEAR!
Can you believe it? Homeland Secure IT opened our doors in 2009 and here it is 2018. When we took our first call it was during one of the worst economic times Pamela and I had seen. Businesses were closing, the market was flooded with IT professionals looking for work. But we didn’t let that deter us from taking the …
Stop using Microsoft IE right this minute – Exploit Warning
A few days back, security experts started reporting that an existing vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer had been leveraged in a “Zero Day Exploit”. What does this mean for you? You could open a specially crafted document and become compromised. Microsoft has not released a patch as of this moment so they are advising the use of Microsoft Edge for …
Windows 10 mouse and / or keyboard stops working after reboot
We encountered a couple of clients who had something similar in common yesterday. They came into work and found that their mouse and/or keyboard was not functioning though they had not done anything different or applied updates. The culprit was an update from Feb 16 that simply had not applied until after the machine had rebooted. This was very frustrating …