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March 30 Conficker Worm is no April Fool’s Day PrankThe Computer Guys LLC is a technology consulting firm and Dell Premier Value Added Reseller located in Owensboro, KY. We are not soliciting anything or trying to sell you anything with this email. It is a courtesy notification concerning an impending attack by a malicious piece of software called the Conficker Worm. The information we are sending is free and the "fix" offered by Microsoft Corporation is free as well. No strings attached. The following information is taken directly from a Microsoft site. A link to the full article is at the end of this email. We discourage you from forwarding this information, but if you feel you must, then please verify it's authenticity at http://www.microsoft.com before you do...as you should do any time you feel the urge to forward something. Also, if you wish to visit snopes.com to verify it, please do so: http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/conficker.asp Do not trust anyone else that says they verified something; as malicous persons have started adding a line like "I verfied this at snopes myself!" to trick users into forwarding false information on all kinds of stuff. ********************************************************************* The Conficker worm is a computer worm that can infect your computer and spread itself to other computers across a network automatically, without human interaction. If you are an IT professional, please visit Conficker Worm: Help Protect Windows from Conficker. On This Page
Am I at risk of having the Conficker worm?Most antivirus software could detect and block the Conficker worm, so if you have updated antivirus software on your computer, you are at a much lower risk of being infected by the Conficker worm. If you or your network administrator have not installed the latest security updates from Microsoft and your antivirus provider, and if you have file-sharing turned on, the Conficker worm could allow remote code execution. Remote code execution allows an attacker to take control of your computer and use it for malicious purposes. http://www.microsoft.com/protect/computer/viruses/worms/conficker.mspx ******************************************************************************* Dennis Wilson The Computer Guys LLC 3520 New Hartford Rd Owensboro, KY 42303 (270) 570-3611 March 16 Want to keep a backup of your data but don't know how?We now have a very good solution for the problem of making backups and keeping them up-to-date: The system we are describing below is a Windows Home Server and it is designed for Home Office networks of five (5) or fewer computers. What does it do? It keeps a complete image of your PC on file so that if you have a system crash, you can restore not only your operating system but all of your system settings, printers, scanners, optional software and all of your data, history etc. This works even if you have to install a new Hard Disk in your system! I just performed a test on my system last week by purposely trashing my personal laptop and then restoring it. It works almost like magic. The system we are offering is an HP Media-Smart EX-470 Server with Windows Home Server operating system, which is really Windows Small Business Server 2003 with an interface designed for ease of use in small networks. This server could reside virtually anywhere in your home office. It is very small and very quiet so it would hardly be noticeable. The server will have 1 - 500GB SATA drive. It can support up to five (5) workstations (PC’s and laptops) for backup purposes. The cost of the server, including installation and configuration of up to 5 workstations would be $1,499. This price would also include a small Uninterruptible Power Supply sufficient to keep the server running for 10-15 minutes to allow a graceful shutdown should the power go out. We would then setup our automated unattended backup service which backs up the server each night to an off-site location. The Backup Service would run $120 annually for each 10GB of storage space. Additionally, the way the server would be setup, your data files would continue to reside on the individual workstations but would be backed up every night to the server automatically. So you end up with originals on the workstations, backups on the server and then backups on the off-site backup server. This system also makes recovery from a crashed PC much simpler and much faster….and we’ve tested it. It works! If this sounds something you’d like to implement, just let us know and we'll give you a call. Happy Computing... Dennis |
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