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TECH TIP: Sanitizing Your Computers & Equipment This month’s tech tip is from IT Bench Technician Vincent Bethel. Vince shares how to clean your computer equipment to help keep you and others safe, especially on shared equipment. We often talk about how to keep...
Ahh, adware. Who doesn’t love being bombarded by messages from a million spammy websites and fake services? I can’t call adware a form of malware, because technically not all adware is malicious (even though I hate constant ads as much as the next person). Adware is...
find files and documents on your computer 01 1024×495 1 “Where did that go?” This tech tip comes from Toni Insalata, IT Bench Technician located at Nerds on Call in Normal, IL! This tip may help you if you ever can’t find your important documents and files when you...
KNOW YOUR MALWARE 1 01 1024×419 2 What’s in a name? I work in marketing here at Facet, but when I was younger, I spent a lot of time helping answer the phones and assisting residential repair customers in the front of the store. Viruses were probably the most common...
If you’ve been anywhere near the internet or a newspaper in the past few days, you’ve no doubt already heard about the Twitter hack. Essentially, someone got access to the accounts of influential Tweeters and tried to pull off a poorly disguised Bitcoin theft scheme....
A managed IT partnership is a long-term relationship where an external team takes responsibility for the technology side of your business, working alongside leadership rather than waiting to be called. The right partnership looks less like buying a service and more...
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Before you sign with a managed IT provider, ask seven questions: how the helpdesk is staffed, what's actually included in the monthly fee, how contracts and renewals work, how the provider plans for projects and budget, how they handle compliance, what response times...
Want more Cyber Treats? Let's go! https://facettech.com/cybertreats/ Your AI Assistant is a Yes-Man Here's how to fix that. A Stanford study published this spring tested 11 leading AI tools: Copilot, ChatGPT, Gemini, and others. They were so prone to...
A managed IT provider can replace, augment, or complement an in-house IT employee. Whether replacement is the right move depends on the size of your business, the workload your IT person carries, and what you actually need from technology going forward. For most...