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Microsoft Publisher End of Life: What Happens in October 2026?
  • August 21, 2026August 21, 2026
  • ITS

Microsoft Publisher End of Life: What Happens in October 2026?

Microsoft Publisher has helped businesses, churches, schools, nonprofits, and home users create newsletters, brochures, labels, signs, and event programs for decades. That era is about to end. The Microsoft Publisher end of life arrives in October 2026. Users should begin
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Comcast SecurityEdge: Why We Disable It on Managed Business Networks
  • August 21, 2026August 21, 2026
  • ITS

Comcast SecurityEdge: Why We Disable It on Managed Business Networks

A business application suddenly stops communicating with its server. The software vendor blames the firewall, but the firewall rules look correct. Windows Firewall is not blocking the traffic, and basic connectivity tests provide few answers. Then someone calls Comcast. Comcast
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How to Identify and Ignore Google and Microsoft Third-Party Contractors
  • August 21, 2026August 21, 2026
  • ITS

How to Identify and Ignore Google and Microsoft Third-Party Contractors

An email from a google.com or microsoft.com address can look important. The sender may offer advertising advice, account support, software assistance, or a “strategic consultation.” However, the person contacting you may not be directly employed by Google or Microsoft. Both
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Still on Windows 10? Here’s Why You’re Putting Your Business at Risk
  • August 20, 2026July 9, 2026
  • ITS

Still on Windows 10? Here’s Why You’re Putting Your Business at Risk

Article Summary: Windows 10 reached the end of Microsoft support on October 14, 2025, which means it no longer gets security updates. The computers still work, but any new flaw found in Windows 10 will never be fixed, which makes
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Fake CAPTCHA Phishing: How StopAndProtect Uses Hacked WordPress Sites
  • August 20, 2026August 20, 2026
  • ITS

Fake CAPTCHA Phishing: How StopAndProtect Uses Hacked WordPress Sites

A CAPTCHA should ask you to check a box, identify an image, or complete another task inside your browser. It should never ask you to open the Windows Run dialog, launch PowerShell, or paste a command into your computer. That
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Hard Drive Reliability Study: What Buyers Should Know
  • August 20, 2026August 20, 2026
  • ITS

Hard Drive Reliability Study: What Buyers Should Know

Choosing a hard drive based solely on the manufacturer’s name can be tempting. However, a large hard drive reliability study shows why buyers should look beyond simple brand rankings and raw failure totals. Researchers Christoph Siemroth and Yeomyung Park reanalyzed
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Blank Web Page Clock Skew: Debugging a Misleading Security Error
  • August 20, 2026August 20, 2026
  • ITS

Blank Web Page Clock Skew: Debugging a Misleading Security Error

A blank white page is one of the least helpful errors a business application can display. There is no explanation, no error code, and often no obvious next step. In one recent support case, a user could access a Nationwide
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Who Can See What Your AI Note-Taker Records?
  • August 15, 2026July 9, 2026
  • ITS

Who Can See What Your AI Note-Taker Records?

Article Summary: AI note-takers join your meetings, transcribe everything said, and save the recording and summary to the vendor's servers. Who can see that recording depends on the tool. Some keep your data inside your own Microsoft or Google environment
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Help, I Let Someone On My Computer
  • August 14, 2026August 14, 2026
  • ITS

Help, I Let Someone On My Computer

Maybe someone called claiming to be from Microsoft, Apple, your bank, or an antivirus company. Perhaps a warning appeared on your screen and told you to call a support number. After following their instructions, you realized: “I let someone on
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Help, My WordPress Website Is Hacked
  • August 14, 2026August 14, 2026
  • ITS

Help, My WordPress Website Is Hacked

Discovering that your WordPress website has been hacked can be alarming. You may notice unfamiliar pages, redirects, spam in search results, new administrator accounts, or warnings from your browser. In other cases, nothing looks wrong even though an attacker has
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We provide our services nationwide. Our field technicians are actively deployed throughout Central Illinois. We work with businesses in cities like Alton, Belleville, Bloomington, Bunker Hill, Carlinville, Champaign, Chatham, Collinsville, Decatur, Edwardsville, Farmersville, Gillespie, Girard, Glen Carbon, Granite City, Hillsboro, Jacksonville, Litchfield, Nokomis, O'Fallon, Petersburg, Rochester, Sherman, Springfield, Staunton, Virden. We specialize in providing IT services for many industries including: CPAs, Dealerships, Labor Unions, Local Gov, Manufacturing, & Senior Living.
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