Courtesy of Trend Micro, here are some valuable tips.
How do I know whether my my PCs are infected?
Scan your PCs using their current Trend Micro product or HouseCall to see whether they are infected. If it is determined that they are infected, find instructions for removal below:
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Consumers
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Small Business
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Medium Business, Enterprise
How do I protect my PCs from being infected?
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Immediately install patches/updates for MS08067 and other vulnerabilities as soon as vendors release these patches. You should configure their PCs to receive automatic updates and patches from Microsoft and software vendors.
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Make sure your security software is up to date.
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Disable the “Drive Auto-run” feature to avoid infections from USB drives.
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Employ secure passwords using a combination of letters, numbers and symbols and frequently change them.
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Take caution when searching online for DOWNAD and Conficker information. There are reports of rogue antivirus packages that are taking advantage of the situation. They will tell you that you are infected and ask you to pay money to download their application, which in many cases turns out to be malware.
Additional information from Sophos
In less than six months, the Conficker/Downadup worm has infected thousands of business networks--making it the most widespread worm infection since SQL Slammer in 2003.
If your computers are unpatched, they’re still at risk.
Download a free Conficker detection and removal tool from Sophos
Conficker uses advanced malware techniques to exploit vulnerable computers, weak passwords and USB storage devices. Learn more about how the Conficker worm works in a free 10-minute podcast with Paul Ducklin of Sophos.
Listen to the podcast about Conficker
For all your security needs, contact Ashlin.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
3LCD Projectors from Epson
The Benefits of 3LCD
3LCD produces beautiful, vibrant images, making it today’s best selling projection technology worldwide. From gorgeous, life-like colours to fluid rapid-motion video, the 3LCD
Vibrant Colour
Epson's 3LCD system faithfully reproduces the visible colour spectrum, so you see brilliant colours that rival real life. Especially in the darkest parts of images, the precision of each LCD panel allows for smooth transitions from light to dark, and colour to colour, for even the most subtle of changes. 3LCD's solid-state design gives you accurate colour registration, which means that you see crisp, detailed, precise images without any rainbow effect or colour break-up.
Detailed Images
Epson's 3LCD projection systems produce bright, clear, and high-contrast images. The brightness of the projector is particularly significant in semi-lit or artificial light environments, such as meeting rooms or lecture halls, where a brighter image creates a more defined picture. In darker home theater settings, 3LCD's high-contrast images make even the darkest scenes luminous and clear.
Efficient Design
Epson's projectors, televisions, and other 3LCD products are extremely well-designed, high-performance systems. For example, the 3LCD optical engines are optimized for excellent light conservation, bringing more photons of light to the screen than any other projection system. This attention to detail is part of the reason that Epson has been the number one brand of projectors sold worldwide.
3LCD produces beautiful, vibrant images, making it today’s best selling projection technology worldwide. From gorgeous, life-like colours to fluid rapid-motion video, the 3LCD
Vibrant Colour
Epson's 3LCD system faithfully reproduces the visible colour spectrum, so you see brilliant colours that rival real life. Especially in the darkest parts of images, the precision of each LCD panel allows for smooth transitions from light to dark, and colour to colour, for even the most subtle of changes. 3LCD's solid-state design gives you accurate colour registration, which means that you see crisp, detailed, precise images without any rainbow effect or colour break-up.
Detailed Images
Epson's 3LCD projection systems produce bright, clear, and high-contrast images. The brightness of the projector is particularly significant in semi-lit or artificial light environments, such as meeting rooms or lecture halls, where a brighter image creates a more defined picture. In darker home theater settings, 3LCD's high-contrast images make even the darkest scenes luminous and clear.
Efficient Design
Epson's projectors, televisions, and other 3LCD products are extremely well-designed, high-performance systems. For example, the 3LCD optical engines are optimized for excellent light conservation, bringing more photons of light to the screen than any other projection system. This attention to detail is part of the reason that Epson has been the number one brand of projectors sold worldwide.
Benq - First 4 Year Projector Warranty
Effective March 1st 2009 Benq is offering a 4 year warranty on these models:
Monday, March 02, 2009
Save on Tax - Buy Computers and writeoff 100%
To help stimulate the economy, the Federal Government has accelerated the CCA on Computer (anything covered by class 50, schedule 2)
CCA Class 50 (Computers)
Computer equipment is described in Class 50 of Schedule II to the Income Tax Regulations as general-purpose electronic data processing equipment and systems software for that equipment, including ancillary data processing equipment but not including property that is principally or is used principally as:
(i) Electronic process control or monitor equipment;
(ii) Electronic communications control equipment;
(iii) Systems software for a property referred to in subparagraph (i) or (ii); or
(iv) Data handling equipment unless it is ancillary to general-purpose electronic data processing equipment.
Budget 2009 proposes a temporary 100-per-cent CCA rate for eligible computers and software acquired after January 27, 2009 and before February 2011. This 100-per-cent CCA rate will not be subject to the half-year rule, which generally allows half the CCA write-off otherwise available in the year the asset is first available for use by the taxpayer. As a result of this measure, a business will be able to fully deduct the cost of an eligible computer (including the systems software for that computer) in the first year that CCA deductions are available.
Beware that if you use an operating lease, this provision will not apply, but it will for a capital lease, since that is interpreted as a purchase with debt financing not a lease by the tax rules. So you could take this entire tax write off in the first year, even if you are paying for it over three to five years.
CCA Class 50 (Computers)
Computer equipment is described in Class 50 of Schedule II to the Income Tax Regulations as general-purpose electronic data processing equipment and systems software for that equipment, including ancillary data processing equipment but not including property that is principally or is used principally as:
(i) Electronic process control or monitor equipment;
(ii) Electronic communications control equipment;
(iii) Systems software for a property referred to in subparagraph (i) or (ii); or
(iv) Data handling equipment unless it is ancillary to general-purpose electronic data processing equipment.
Budget 2009 proposes a temporary 100-per-cent CCA rate for eligible computers and software acquired after January 27, 2009 and before February 2011. This 100-per-cent CCA rate will not be subject to the half-year rule, which generally allows half the CCA write-off otherwise available in the year the asset is first available for use by the taxpayer. As a result of this measure, a business will be able to fully deduct the cost of an eligible computer (including the systems software for that computer) in the first year that CCA deductions are available.
Beware that if you use an operating lease, this provision will not apply, but it will for a capital lease, since that is interpreted as a purchase with debt financing not a lease by the tax rules. So you could take this entire tax write off in the first year, even if you are paying for it over three to five years.
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