by E.I.T. Author | Apr 10, 2017 | Blog, Computers, Email, general, hacking, internet stuff, phishing, Security, viruses, Web Development
I get calls all the time from people who have simple questions…How do I do something on Facebook? How do I do something online? What would be the best or cheapest solution to my problem? Etc, etc. Everything I.T. is a business that cares about people. We are a business, yes, but there are many things you just shouldn’t have to pay for, …and general assistance is one of them. We aren’t going to take your money if we can help you save it. There are too many people trying to take every darn penny you earn for stuff that we, as human beings, should do for each other. I see so many places “charging” to support their own customers…people who have already purchased their products, and I for one, find it distasteful and appalling! So Everything I.T. now has a help forum. If you want to ask a question, please ask it there, so that others can benefit as well from your question and the answer that goes with it. (Didn’t they tell you all through school that there is NO SUCH THING as a stupid question?) …It’s true. When you ask a question, you actually help others as well who may not have the words to ask, or who may be too embarrassed. It’s a simple sign-up, and it’s encrypted so your email doesn’t get hacked. (in fact our entire site is encrypted!) So just go to the help forum, and post your question, and we will try to answer it as soon as possible. And if you read something I answer, and have a better answer, you can sign up to respond as well. so don’t be shy because you are the first one to post. I imagine on every forum that started, someone went first at some point. 🙂
You there is 1 topic started, only to make it easy for someone not so technical I guess…all you have to do is hit reply. But you are most welcome to start your own topic if you want. Anything not X-rated (this is an under-13 approved site) or illegal is welcome.
by E.I.T. Author | Apr 10, 2017 | Blog, internet stuff, Security
So, I did a short blog post about the new ruling that releases the FCC from the responsibility of requiring your ISP (internet service providers) from getting permission to share your data, right? (read 2 posts back for the post) Well, the senate voted and passed it, and as far as I know, Trump hasn’t vetoed it. So now, your ISP can SELL all your data…if you read the article, you can get an idea of just how much they can do with it. And like me, you may think “well that’s just too much work, who is going to track all that little details of information on every citizen?” …right? That would just be crazy, right? …!WRONG! There are whole huge buildings of data centers everywhere! Just storing all of this data on people …In one post, I showed you a picture (old now) of Facebook’s data center, and just how many servers and drives it has…and they are just one company on one website. There are hundreds, if not more of them, just like that, or larger. And now, AI (artificial intelligence) is a reality. Computer programs can collect, sort, and process all that data about your daily lives, every citizen in the blink of an eye with very little effort. VPNs (virtual private network) didn’t used to really be necessary…but they kind of are now. I found a decent one that is fairly cheap, and it doesn’t seem to slow my system down at all. Check it out…I like it. I used to use it just for file-sharing, but now I use it a lot more. IT’s called Express VPN. Give it a try! You can get it here! (just click that link)
by E.I.T. Author | Apr 10, 2017 | Blog, Computers, internet stuff
So OK, today I was working on improving my “white hat” SEO skills, and I ran across something in all my searches, and all my thousands of hours online I had never seen before. (It happens :-b) It’s called “Google Guide” and it has all kinds of amazing tools for using Google to search. I was always aware that there were special operators you could use to write more complicated searches, but I never really bothered to learn them…but I had no idea there were actually algorithm keywords and syntax’s to do very sophisticated searches, and that all I had to do was bookmark it to become an immediate “search genius!” …So that’s what I did. Here are some of the interesting things you can find on Google Guide:
by E.I.T. Author | Apr 5, 2017 | Blog, Computers, general, internet stuff
Trump just signed a new law that repeals the old one that was supposed to put privacy restrictions on your data, and can now collect ALL your browsing history, and sell it to the highest bidder. This is a terrible move on Trump’s part. Looks like he may not be a politician, but he is still in the pockets of big business. Read the whole article here on Techrepublic’s site: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/the-real-reason-behind-the-new-law-for-isps-and-what-it-means-for-internet-users/?ftag=TRE684d531&bhid=21935322407075098143808078291188
by E.I.T. Author | Mar 28, 2017 | Blog, Company, Computers, Product
8 Ways to win! follow the link and just click on each one…you can probably do all 8 entries in less than 15 minutes. (and it IS an AWESOME graphics card!!!) https://wn.nr/yxhPLG
by E.I.T. Author | Mar 27, 2017 | Blog, internet stuff, Web Development
I’ve been using this plugin for a few years now, and I must say, it’s the very best anti-spam plugin on the market. It’s not free, but it’s not expensive either. The plugin is called Cleantalk. You are going to want to go HERE to get Cleantalk, or check it out. The spam blocker works on all sign-in pages, forms, and everything that takes input…and it’s got a firewall, so it blocks both IP addresses and email addresses…it’s very effective. I have never liked Akismet, and those captcha things are a pain in the butt in my opinion, so I don’t trouble my viewers with captchas when they register. I don’t need to. Check it out!
by E.I.T. Author | Mar 27, 2017 | Blog, Computers
If you experience heartache over the Windows 10 upgrade, it may be the time to push the issue. There is now a class action lawsuit against the software giant over unwanted consequences from the unwanted upgrade, and people are winning. Read about THIS class action lawsuit which has a good chance of succeeding, as a precedence has already been set by this small claims lawsuit that awarded this travel agent $10,000.00 . Were you severely inconvenience also, and did you have to put out to get your computer fixed? Then what are you waiting for? Go get in on the action…they really have it coming to them, in my opinion, for putting out a Windows Update of a complete operating system upgrade that people had absolutely no knowledge of…yes, I am now a Windows 10 user, only by necessity because the rest of the known digital almost all have it, and I need to be knowledgeable to stay in business, but that doesn’t mean I approve about how they went about, or even like it really. Luckily, I blocked, and waited, and so I had no issues, but I know how many did…I got the calls. Wow. And I feel for you guys. It was difficult to charge people, because well, I have a heart, and I hated that they did that to the public…so if you can get something back, I want you do know about it.
by E.I.T. Author | Mar 6, 2017 | Blog
If you use Clef 2-factor auth. sign-in on your WordPress website(s), the app/plugin will stop working after 3 months from now. I have never used it myself, I saw that it had too many issues from the beginning, but many people do (in the millions actually). WordFence does have cell-phone sign-in, but only with their premium version. (which is expensive) …WordFence premium is $99 a year for a single license. It goes down significantly if you buy more licenses though. I would buy it unless I could get it for around $30, which requires signing up 25 licenses. If you are interested, send me your info, and if I get enough people together to get cheaper licenses, we could get them as a group. The final shutdown date for Clef is June 6, 2017. If you want to read their post, it’s here: https://blog.getclef.com/discontinuing-support-for-clef-6c89febef5f3#.nxyejqdl9
by E.I.T. Author | Mar 6, 2017 | Blog
The latest version fixed 39 bugs and some major security issues. Update your WordPress site today, or call Everything I.T and start a simple maintenance contract. We would love to maintain your site for you. Call or Chat today!
by E.I.T. Author | Mar 3, 2017 | Blog
Do you have a WordPress site? Do you understand about the necessary security to keep it from getting hacked? Are you aware that WordPress sites, even though they are the best, are also under constant threat of being hacked by bots (programmatic access) ?
Everything I.T. has many web services other than just great design. We can configure your site with security, and install safeguards to make it more secure. Better yet, for a small annual fee that amounts to roughly $20 a month, we can maintain your site for you. We can take charge of updating all those theme files, plugins, and WordPress core program files and keep it updated all the time, and we can also do both the file and database backups necessary to restore it in case something ever fails. If this is something you think you would like for your site, contact us TODAY! (OR just use the chat on the site to get a hold of us) Ask for a website maintenance contract.
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by E.I.T. Author | Feb 27, 2017 | Blog
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We would love to custom order and build your unique design of desktop PC, Server, Gaming Computer, whatever floats your boat!
Here’s one we recently built
Specs:
i7-6400K
16Gb of DDR4-3000 RAM
Nvidia GEforce 750ti
Corsair Water Cooled
extra SATA controller for extra sata ports
4 internal hard drives, 3Tb + 2Tb + 1.5Tb + 1Tb
Docking Station on top, but eSata port
6 USB 3.0 ports, and 6 USB 2.0 ports
2 Each Blueray/DVD read/burners
multi-card reader
2 each 200mm lighted fans, and multiple 80 & 120mm fans on all sides, top, and bottom of case
Thermaltake Overseer RX-1 Case
Has Windows 10 Enterprise, and is full UEFI compliant with all GPT disks.
by E.I.T. Author | Feb 24, 2017 | Blog
Cloudfare is a firewall service for websites. If you use Cloudflare, your site visitors may have had their data leaked… I’m not going to reinvent the wheel to give you all the details, just point you to the Wordfence article, which is very complete (including how to repair the data leak)
I’ll include that part, since it’s simple: If you use Cloudflare, and you have a WordPress website, Change your wp-config.php salts. This will log everyone out and invalidate cookies and sessions. This protects you and your site members in case any of their cookies have been stolen. Once you make this change, an attacker will no longer be able to use stolen session cookies from your site to sign in.
If you want more information, including what to do if your site is based on something other than WordPress, follow this link: https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2017/02/cloudflare-data-leak/?utm_source=list&utm_campaign=022317&utm_medium=email
by E.I.T. Author | Feb 16, 2017 | Blog
Do you ever just get sick and tired of them? I do…they come daily now. I want to change my phone number, but I really don’t even think that will help. Today the guy calls with an Indian accent so strong I can comprehend him, but he SWEARS he’s calling from New Jersey.
“Ma’am, your computer is downloading lots of executable files, are you aware of this?” …geeeez, do people really fall for this? I mean even the IRS phone scams are at least original, and a little harder to detect, but these computer tech phone calls are just so bad they are laughable. These guys are so STUPID to think that American people will really fall for their scam. I mean REALLY stupid. And here I thought they had a lot of intelligent people in India…but I guess they have more dummys than most. I mean come on already.
I just wanted to vent today. My bad. Don’t fall for any phone scams though. Remember, verify, verify, verify. And if you think you really have a problem, don’t let some unknown person who calls you, on to your computer. Just hang up and call a legitimate technical support to check it out.
by E.I.T. Author | Feb 13, 2017 | Blog, Computers
Well, my last client motivated me. I have this new build that I want to dual-boot (actually I want to quad boot it) anyways, but since he got me started playing with Virtualbox, I decided to build a Mac Virtual Machine. Here’s a picture of it running…(click Read More button at bottom left) …you can run it full screen, but I wanted you to see that Mac & Windows are running at the same time, so I made the window smaller for purpose of the post.
It’s kind of cool this way, because you can share files and access programs in both operating systems (if you have enough processing power and memory) …if you dual/triple/quad boot, you can only run one operating system at a time. This way you have shared folders…
by E.I.T. Author | Feb 11, 2017 | Blog, Computers
So today, got to troubleshoot something different. Usually it’s either a Windows machine, or a Macintosh (OSX) or a smaller Mac (iOS) , or an Android. But rarely do I get to work on a Win-Mac. So today, a guy calls wanting to get his USB to work on His Windows install, inside of Virtualbox, inside of his Macbook. If you don’t know, Virtualbox is a Java program that lets you run any operating system inside of a virtual machine, inside of any other operating system. So today’s, his was Windows inside of OSX (Macintosh) …so it was quite fun. I love a challenge.
My next task is to run Mac (OSX) on a Windows machine. (also referred to as a ‘hackintosh’) …which is a slightly more difficult task. 🙂
Give me a call with your challenging task that’s giving you a headache, …and I’ll make it work for you!
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