Thoughts and Observations

Monday, February 11, 2013 is “Clean out Your Computer Day”, so take some time over the next few weeks and clean up all the junk that has gathered on your computers over the last year.   Clean out, delete or archive programs, files and emails you know you are never going to use or reference again. Grant-Tech has some great preventative maintenance services and solutions available to automate this process.  Give us a call (773) 675-1423 or fill out a service request to have
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Congrats to our client – Ranalli’s of Andersonville (http://www.ranallispizza.com/) on the very nice plug they received from Deborah Norville of Inside Edition and Windy City Live – Channel 7 (WLS-TV) this morning.  http://windycitylive.com/episodes/Deborah-Norville-from-Inside-Edition/8532853 Watch the clips ending where they surprise Deborah with her favorite Panzerotti from Ranalli’s of Andersonville. We love ROA’s food too!!!  
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Grant-Tech uses a third party vendor to host our email services and I received an email from them the other day that I thought would be of interest to our clients and visitors.  I am adding it to this blog post just as it was sent to me.  Another example which demonstrates why you want to be careful about the emails you open.  It is so important to have a good virus protection and prevention software on your computer. Here
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The Chicago Tribune posted an article from CNNMoney the other day titled, “Microsoft: PC viruses are mostly your fault” posted October 12, 2011.  After seeing the title of the article I thought, come on Microsoft how can you say that?  But after reading it in more detail, I kind of agree. If you read my previous blog post, Never, Never, Ever…. posted on September 6, 2011, how cyber attackers are trying to get us to provide them with personal information you would kind of
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Never, never, ever reply to an email asking for personal information. We had several calls in the last few weeks from our Home and Office clients concerning emails they are receiving from what looks like their email service provider and is presented in a professional and official manner. What they don’t realize is that these emails are actually SPAM or FISHING emails and not officially from the email provider. Please remember to never, never, ever provide anyone through an
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Get your copy of our FREE “Tips and Tricks to keep your Computer in Tip-Top Shape” by filling out the short form below, hit submit and get your copy in pdf format. It includes “Tips and Tricks” you can do on your own to keep your computer in “Tip-Top” shape. Firstname * Lastname * Company (If Applicable) Email * Phone Just to make sure you are human....
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It has been a busy week here at Grant-Tech for viruses so far and it is only Tuesday!  In two days we have already received 5 new clients who’s computers have been infected with the Win 7 – Home Security virus which takes over your PC and your PC’s browser.  We can not stress enough the importance of having a good anti-virus software and firewall software installed on your computers. If you don’t have any then you are only looking
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I read an article today in the Sun-Times (click here to read the article in the Sun-Times) how a neighbor used his other neighbors Wi-Fi Internet connection to downloaded unlawful materials from that Internet. It was all done unbeknownst to the owner of the wireless Internet service, and the FBI came and arrested the owner of the wireless internet service…he had no idea it was going on.   Wi-Fi security is a must if you have a wireless network or
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