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  • Do you work from home in the Hayes/Bromley/West Wickham/Beckenham area?
  • Are you finding that your PC is not doing what you'd like it to?
  • Or is your home PC just playing up?
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  •      March 2010 A lot of cold calling phising attacks are doing the rounds.
    The deputy head of the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB) has advised victims of fraud to report these directly to a new agency,      Action Fraud the national fraud reporting centre, rather than your local police force.
  • If you are called try and note down:
    • * The name, number and website of the person calling
    • * If they want payment and any details they offer such as a Paypal ID
    • * Access codes if they offer to take control of your PC
    • * The name of any software they may try and sell you
  •      Microsoft Internet Explorer users in EU to be asked to select their default web browser (KB976002)
    • If you only have Internet Explorer to view the internet you may receive a message from Microsoft about your default web browser
    • There will be a choice of several to choose from
    •      Contact me now for advice
  • Are you still using Internet Explorer 6?
      • February 2010: Support for Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) is now being phased out
          and although Microsoft will support it until 2014, other companies are not
          so you need to upgrade now
    •      Contact me now for further details
      New Hard Drive format to change by 2011 - XP users may be affected
      If you are using XP and replace your hard drive with one of the new formatted ones that have 4K block sizes (instead of the usual 512 bytes), you may find that when data is being written to the hard drive it may take slightly longer than at present using the current formatting.
      Only XP is affected, as Windows 7 (and other operating systems) already allow for the larger block sizing
      The advanced format will allow hard drive makers to produce larger capacity drives that use less power and are more reliable with additional error correcting.
    • Click here for more information (BBC website).
      MyGuide is a government website that is a useful guide for beginners.
    • Click here to give it a go.
  • 9/2/2010 Safer Internet Day 2010; Think B4 U post advice for using the internet
    • Use the privacy settings offered by social networking services
    • Only select as online friends people you know you can trust
    • Think carefully about the potential consequences before publishing photos of yourself
    • Do not publish pictures of your friends without their permission
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