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The importance of backing your information up

Electronic devices are replaceable but what about the memories stored on them? What about all the pictures, videos, files, and sound recordings on them?

Sometimes the device goes bad, the battery won’t work, the screen won’t show anything, or the screen won’t respond to touch. It will be much cheaper to have your personal information backed up to a cloud (a part of the internet that can store files) then to pay $700+ to ship it to a clean room to get the information off of it.

Windows is trying to make all their users all upgrade to Windows 10

Starting January 14th of 2020, Microsoft will no longer support Windows 7 with security upgrades that keep users’ info safe on their computer.

Microsoft will then support only Windows 10 with security upgrades.

Microsoft will no longer support Internet Explorer starting January 14, 2020.

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Microsoft’s tech support services will be stopped on January 14, 2020 as well for Windows 7.

Microsoft also recommends Windows 7 users to purchase a new computer that can support Windows 10 as well.

VPN (Virtual Private Networks)

Want to improve your online security and privacy? A Virtual Private Network (VPN) does just that.

A VPN provides an encripted tunnel so that attackers will have a much harder time looking at your personal information

This means that attackers will have a much harder time looking at your information through the internet from their computer or mobile device.

An attacker can exploit info much easier with out a VPN to make it harder for them to read the transmitted information

It is still recommended to have an anti virus because it doesn’t protect against viruses or other malware downloaded onto a computer.

Some recommended VPN services are: