About 15 or 20 years ago, it was pretty common for your laptop or more likely your desktop PC (since laptops weren’t that common then and were certainly a lot more expensive) to have a problem on a regular basis. Customers would experience trouble with their computer as often as 3 or 4 times per year.

Beware of Computer Scammers

Survivors of online scammers are going to online networks for help as they are just too embarrassed to go to the police.

Network protection CERT New Zealand's most recent sorts show in excess of 500 reports out of 2333 incidents were connected with trick scammers and fraud in the initial three months of the year.

A cracked or broken laptop screen is frustrating! There are many different circumstances where this can happen to your poor little laptop and we’ve seen them all. Anything from the classic drop or “oops stood on the laptop!” – through to closing the lid with a pen inside. Amazing what a little leverage will do to a laptop screen. They are flexible, but certainly not designed to be bent anything more than a degree or two.

Ransomware is definitely the most alarming cyber scourge of our time. As time goes on, ransomware attacks on computer business data and personal data files are growing more sophisticated, and the ransom demands continue to increase. Is it even possible to protect yourself from ransomware?

OpenDNS is a truly free way to protect your family or your staff from unsuitable content on their computers from the internet. It is free and has Parental Controls that allow you to fine tune what content you will let people using your WiFi to browse.

Short Version: The modem is a box that connects your home network to the Internet. A router is a box that lets all of your wired and wireless devices use that Internet connection at the same time.

Below are four things you can do to speed up your computer, whether you have a Windows or an Apple computer. Two are software, two may require hardware. Let's have a look…