by Shane Grantham | Jan 27, 2024
Thursday, a current business client e-mailed me about a e-mail message. It said they had to click on a link to keep a subscription current. It gave them an ultimatum to respond or their Microsoft 365 would be cancelled the next day. After analyzing the email I...
by Shane Grantham | Jan 25, 2024
Today I wanted to copy some documents to my Linux file server and couldn’t find it on the network. It was there yesterday! Two desktop clients couldn’t find it either by IP address or hostname. My smartphone couldn’t locate it. The internet was...
by Shane Grantham | Jan 14, 2024
A new computer repair client asked me to check their fairly new Microsoft windows 11 laptop last week. A fake-alert appeared on their computer stating they were infected. In the process of attempting to boot with a device other than the internal SSD, I got a message...
by Shane Grantham | Jan 3, 2024
Being in the computer/IT field, I tend to neglect my own computers. Take for example my computer file server. It was a Ubuntu server distribution which was having problems installing updates over the last few months. In December I started researching and found it was...
by Shane Grantham | Dec 20, 2023
This month I was helping a client with their laptop computer. Their main program was having problems reading data from their 4TB (terabyte) external drive. I feared the drive had a hardware issue or the USB port on the laptop was faulty. Luckily, it wasn’t...
