Lee Brookshire of Hitachi/HEDUS corporation in Greenville and Allen Vailliencourt of Find Great People, also in Greenville are our winners! Congratulations to both of them, as they have won Trend Micro Internet Security 2010 anti-virus in our little giveaway… Trend Micro Internet Security 2010 is designed for home and small business users and offers protection against viruses, spyware, unauthorized changes …
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SECURE IT ALERT: Protect your data with DATA DESTRUCTION from ShredDisk #Greenville
Protect your data – by destroying it! Boy that sounds interesting doesn’t it? But what does that mean? As computers age and are replaced, they might find their way to a dumpster, or given to a non-profit organization who refurbishes them and resells them, or they may be given to a computer recycler who is supposed to dispose of the computer …
Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac to be Released in October
Microsoft’s latest version of Office 2011 is due out in October of 2011. It features many improvements over previous versions and comes in the following flavors: Microsoft Office for Mac Home and Student 2011 includes Word for Mac, PowerPoint for Mac, Excel for Mac and Messenger for Mac. It will retail for $119 for a single install and $149 for the …
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Using Internet Explorer? Free Trend Micro tool to prevent browser exploits!
Our friends at Trend Micro Labs are watching out for you, even if you opt to not purchase their incredible anti-virus software! If you are using Internet Explorer 6, 7, or 8 you could fall victim to what is known as “zero day exploit”, which is simply a hole that is found by the bad guys and a means for …
Greenville computer service, repair, support and more – Way more… #greenville
This morning I was having a discussion with a potential client and we were talking about the “Homeland Secure IT” name, the individual mentioned that they understood the play on words, however they were simply not sure how to take “IT”, because they thought of “IT” only in the terms of “Information Technology”… I explained that the “IT” in our …
Microsoft Windows XP pro pre-install downgrade to be unavailable after 10/22/2010
The time has come for us to say goodbye to Microsoft Windows XP! All of our computer vendors have been alerting us to the fact that after October 22, 2010 they will no longer be able to provide us with machines that include the downgraded Microsoft Windows XP professional and that Microsoft Windows 7 will be the only option. There …
Microsoft, Adobe and Java Updates – Please Update Your Systems!!!!
Today we had a young lady come into our office with a severely infected notebook. It had multiple rootkits, trojans, spyware, etc…. The computer did not have updates on it for the Microsoft Windows Operating System, Microsoft Office, or Adobe Reader / Flash / Air. Nor did it have the latest Java on it. Anti-Virus was handled by AVG (Free). …
Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite and your Outlook work well together! #SaaS #BPOS #MS
So you are setup with a FREE trial of Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suite and are enjoying all the online apps but something is missing, you don’t want to use web apps, you want to use all the features of Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 or 2010 that you have already paid for and know your way around. Well it is …
Oh my, another #greenville computer user lost their data – Wish they had used our online backup service…
Just saw where another computer user in Greenville could have avoided a nightmare. They posted their computer was toast. Bad hard drive according to some geeky type people that looked at it. The computer is back to running, but their data is GONE. Homeland Secure IT offers many backup solutions that can protect you from this scenario, but our favorite …
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Video security / surveillance for your home may be more affordable than you think
Do you ever wonder what is going on at your home when you are not there? Maybe you just want to know if someone approaches your door, or if a vehicle pulls into your driveway? Call me paranoid, but I do! We have surrounded our home and businesses with full color, night-vision cameras that record to a DVR (Digital Video …