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IT Video Business Card for Jalapeno
I think that there seems to be a sort of school of thought that speaking to IT people can be an expensive proposition. It’s not if you speak to us early enough in the process. My name is Laurence Childs, I’m the director of Jalapeno Business Services. Jalapeno...

What can I do to counter ransomware?
I’m Laurence Childs from Jalapeno Business Services. There’s not a lot you can do to counter ransomware because once you know you’ve got it, you’ve got it. It’s a bit like a cold really, all you can really then do is try and treat the symptoms and recover from it....

How can I notice dodgy emails?
In a lot of cases the grammar is bad, the spelling is bad, the way they’re laid out is bad. Some of them are very, very good, but the vast majority of them are really quite bad. Look at the email address it’s come from, look at the web links they’re trying to send you...

Ever had a problem with your printer?
Maybe your printer was broken, maybe it was faulty, or it was telling you that it wanted blue ink to print a black and white document. We’ve all had problems with printers at one time or another. Recently a new client of mine sent me an email: “Laurence, the printer...

Ever had a problem with your printer?
Maybe your printer was broken, maybe it was faulty, or it was telling you that it wanted blue ink to print a black and white document. We’ve all had problems with printers at one time or another. Recently a new client of mine sent me an email: “Laurence, the printer...

Who Is Best?
Traditional antivirus packages are pattern matching. A virus file will come in and it will have certain characteristics in that file. And your antivirus will look at it. Look at the first, 10, 20, 40 bytes of that file and say it matches this virus, I’m going to...

I fell for a phishing email… What are the solutions for phishing emails in 2020?
Well, the worst has happened, you've opened up an email, filled in some login details or a password, and now you've had your data stolen by a mastermind criminal hacker who has tricked you and many other business owners before. What's the best course of action to take...

What is “Social Engineering”?
Social Engineering is something that shows up often when talking about hackers and hacking. A piece of nasty software isn't always the way you can get in trouble, sometimes people use something called Social Engineering. In order to gain access to something that you...

Is Antivirus still relevant in 2020?
2020 is here and with more business receiving malware, scams and ransomware. You need to be protected. There's so many different antivirus packages in the market, from Norton to Avast. While these packages historically have been excellent, there's a new type of...