Six MILLION dollars for computer virus cleanup? That’s what one man paid!

A New York Times article that was tweeted yesterday by @randomlycb really caught my attention… It involves a well-to-do gentleman who takes his computer to a local (New York) computer repair facility for a simple virus cleanup / removal in 2006, and things go horribly wrong. The owner of the computer service center tells the PC owner that he has …

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Trend Micro Worry-Free Business Security 7.0 is here! Adds Mac Protection & More!

Our number one selling security software to protect small business servers, endpoints (desktops), mobile notebook computers, and Microsoft Exchange email is Trend Micro Worry-Free Business Security Advanced. There’s a good reason for this… Our clients get the most bang for the buck from this product! It even filters SPAM! Trend Micro products always rank in the highest levels of anti-virus …

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Secure IT Alert: Koobface Variant Infects Linux, Mac & Windows Systems

Homeland Secure IT Alert Homeland Secure IT Alert for Thursday, October 28, 2010 In the news today you will find that a new variant of the infamous Koobface is making the rounds via social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Myspace. Unsuspecting users are enticed to click a video link in a direct message which links to a bogus …

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SECURE IT ALERT: Apple Mac OS X vulnerabilities and Firefox fixes (for Mac/PC/*Nix)

Homeland Secure IT Alert for Friday, October 22, 2010 Apple has issued two advisories which outline Java security updates for OS X 10.5.x and OS X 10.6.x (Tiger and Leopard). These advisories warn of several vulnerabilities in the OS X Java components (a total of 10). There are updates out to address a few of the flaws, however, many still …

Top 10 Reasons Customers Choose Trend Micro

TOP 10 REASONS CUSTOMERS CHOOSE TREND MICRO Homeland Secure IT believes that Trend Micro Anti-Virus / Anti-Malware products offer the best value and best performance, but don’t take our word for it, what follows are the top 10 reasons customers choose Trend Micro: 1. Trend Micro Works hard to make customers happy. “Trend Micro is just great– professional, responsive, and …

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Greenville business computer service, support and repair – Free Estimates

If you have issues with your business computer systems, who do you call? If you are calling a one-man-shop, you may be getting a great deal in terms of hourly rates, however, you may find that the wait for this one person to finally get around to you could lead to inconvenient downtime. Unfortunately, the better the technician, the more …

SECURE IT ALERT: “Here You Have” Email Contains Fake and Malicious PDF or WMV Links

Homeland Secure IT Alert for September 10th, 2010   Making the news this week has been dire warnings of a rapidly spreading email worm. While it appears to be nothing more than we have seen in the past, I have reposted a security alert from Watchguard, makers of a great firewall devices and security appliances.   — Supposedly Wide-Spread Email …

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, 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). …