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Phone: +61 2 9967 5306

Address: Suite 4, 163-165 Sailors Bay Road 2063 North Bridge, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.getitfixed.com.au/

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25.01.2022 Nigerians have been hacking Yahoo accounts all this week and last week. The intruders manage to get usernames and passwords by sending a fake email requesting your Yahoo information under the guise of confirming your details. Although these emails may look legitimate, they are not. All your contacts will receive emails requesting money to help you out of a bind (saying you are on holiday overseas usually the UK). All your contacts and emails are then deleted.

24.01.2022 Are you being hacked right now? How to prevent hacking... It has been a while since our last newsletter, things have been busy with new computer viruses and old ones rearing their heads. Human flu has also been taking us down, unfortunately there is no robust antivirus software for that. A looming crisis at the moment is people having their online email accounts and Facebook accounts hacked. If you use Hotmail and Yahoo you need to be especially careful. Gmail to some extent,...Continue reading

24.01.2022 http://www.news.com.au//essen/story-e6frfkui-1226504656370

23.01.2022 Continuing our last few newsletters we have been hearing about scams using Flight Centre ticketing, domain registration and Credit Card company statements. Keep informing us of what you have received. However, an interesting one arrived in the mail where they were using the publicly accessible information about one of our business domain names and had sent a form for domain renewal. The prices were heavily inflated, but discounted for long periods (like 5 years). I have been ...registering domain names since the mid 90’s and I have never been sent a letter in the mail by a registrar. It is all handled by email. Be very careful with this. It has your company or personal details, so it seems legit, but it is not. You can have your registrar use a privacy store on your domain, where their information is given instead of yours, but this is always an extra fee and becomes cost prohibitive when registering large numbers of domains. This sort of scam is called Spear Phishing. It has also been used with other public records like trademark, patent and company registries. So always read it very carefully and if you are unsure, call the relevant agency (using the phone numbers in the phone book or online and not on the paperwork sent to you as they may be fake).

22.01.2022 Today is the first day Windows 8 is available to the general public. You are in one of three camps. You are happy with Windows XP, or you find Windows 7 MUCH better than Vista. Otherwise you are still using Vista and don’t see what all the fuss is about. All Mac users, we apologise for the inconvenience :) Well Windows XP will no longer be supported by Microsoft on April 8, 2014. So if you’re in the Windows XP crowd time is running out. Now when we say support will end that... means that they won’t be fixing bugs, plugging security holes or stopping any new viruses and trojans that emerge. Windows Vista, which was an improvement in some ways and a let down in others will still be around a few more years and Windows 7 will probably live as long as XP (12 years). The real question is Should I Upgrade? The answer to this is not straight forward and depends on your situation and how you use your computer. If you are a Windows XP user the time is soon. We don’t recommend staying with the operating system beyond 2014.

20.01.2022 Welcome back from the holiday season. It was so hot yesterday that computers would have been on the very slow side if not used in an air-conditioned environment. A typical desktop can have a temperature inside its case of between 15 to 20 degrees higher than outside. A laptop, or notebook, can between 10 to 15 degrees higher inside its case. So yesterday at near 40, and in some places above, temperatures, the internal temp of your computer would have pushed 50 to 60 degrees. ...Most machines should not operate above 45 for prolonged periods of time. Heat in a computer causes several things to occur. The computer reduces its speed to attempt to reduce the operating temperature of the processor and the graphics card. The computer freezes to wait for the temperature to drop, or it just turns off. It also can cause errors in operation when it operates outside its normal temperature range of 35 to 45 degrees. With prolonged use in high temperatures the electronics degrade at an accelerated rate leading to a greater likelihood of failure in your components. Heat also shortens the life of a laptop battery. As a side note the Apple MacBook Pro unibody design means there are no vents for airflow. You need to be especially careful if you are a Mac user. I am sure you are already aware of how hot they get, and now you know why. You sometimes see this in ultrabooks and thin clients from other manufacturers, but less so. These things also occur to games consoles (playstations and xboxs), bluray players, mobile phones etc.

16.01.2022 What are the things you wished you'd known the last time you bought a computer?

15.01.2022 Happy Holidays!

13.01.2022 It is important to keep your computer clean. Often your computer runs slow because it looks like this on the inside.

13.01.2022 We have moved to Suite 4, 163-165 Sailors Bay Road, Northbridge, NSW. Our new phone number will be updated soon.

12.01.2022 Welcome back from holidays everyone. The year is getting off to a "can't log into my computer" start at the moment. So if you are experiencing the "black screen white cursor" problem, you know who to call...

09.01.2022 If you have children or grandchildren with an eReader and looking for a good story time book have a look at our clients new release.

06.01.2022 Listen to Gareth chat about computers on Northside 99.3FM with Ray Shoostovian

06.01.2022 This Saturday we roll out our regular computer courses in our offices. To this date we have only run the occasional course and one-on-one. Demand for a set day when people can do the course has lead us to setting aside time for regular classes. Every second Saturday will be the "Foundational Computer Course". Designed from years of experience dealing with our clients and discovering the reasons people make mistakes and the root of some of the problems we encounter in our work.... The course will be useful for anyone with little to no knowledge and even if you have been using computers for years, this will iron our all the mistakes you have been making up until now. Our lead problem solver, Gareth, will be teaching the course. With experience in teaching people from all walks of life and at a University level, Gareth will guide you through the basics and speak in a language you will understand and explain concepts simply and effectively. The courses start this Saturday (8th September 2012) from 10am to 1pm (3 hours) at our offices, suite 9, 401 Pacific Highway, Artarmon. Then every second Saturday. Booking is essential to avoid disappointment. We will also be conducting Wednesday morning courses from 10am to 1pm with a minimum of two participants. Course participation is limited to 10 people. Many people wish to do the course with their friends, partners or family. If you sign up with a partner you will receive a 10% discount and your partner also receives the same discount. If you know of someone else who may want to do the course this also counts towards our Refer 3 Get it Free customer referal program. For more information about the course you can visit the courses page on our website or give us a call on 02 9439 4819 any time.

06.01.2022 People seem to dislike updates to their computers. Updates are important because they plug security holes in the software or operating system. Otherwise you end up with this many viruses on your computer...

05.01.2022 Current trends (from AusCERT) show that Phishing is becoming more popular than trojans. Trojan infections have declined over the last 2 years, but phishing has doubled. So to protect yourself you need to be vigilant as to who has actually sent you the email and if you are going to click on a link, take a moment to find out where it is going. If anyone has any other examples of phishing please send it to us. The best one I saw was an email from the Commonwealth bank which was having a "getting to know you" day in the local branch with a free lunch served (the irony). To attend you had to log into your account to accept the invitation. There was a link to the logon page. This link was bogus and went to a fake logon page that would have stolen the details.

04.01.2022 There have been numerous media outlets covering the reports that you should remove the Apple "Quicktime" video player form your Windows computer. If you are a Mac user this does not apply to you. Apple will continue to support Quicktime on MacOS, but support for Windows has stopped. This means that any holes found in the software will make your computer vulnerable. This does not mean you WILL be attacked, only that there is a possibility of attack using security holes that ha...ve not, and will not be fixed. As a precaution it is advisable to remove any software that is vulnerable to attack. If you are still using Windows XP it is advisable to upgrade to a newer operating system sooner rather than later. In light of this, below are the instructions to remove Quicktime on your Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8.0, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 computers. 1.) Hold down the Windows Key* and press R. 2.) Type appwiz.cpl 3.) Press Enter on the keyboard or single left click on OK 4.) Scroll down the list of installed programs and look for "Quicktime" 5.) If you find it continue on. If not, then it is not installed and you are fine. 6.) Single left click on the "Quicktime" listing. 7.) At the top of the list, single left click on the "Uninstall" button. 8.) Follow the prompts and read each dialogue box and window carefully. 9.) If you get stuck, send me an email [email protected] or give me a call 0424002384. * The Windows Key is the key with the Microsoft Windows logo on it located to the left of the Spacebar (the Space key) and the left ALT key (ALT). The logo looks like a flag or four squares.

04.01.2022 http://www.afp.gov.au//o/afp-logo-used-in-online-scam.aspx