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Perfecting Email Delivery

Creating great email delivery systems Perfecting email and its delivery is a challenge for many, but something all administrators should work toward for the betterment of the digital world. If you are an email administrator and or just an IT professional for a small or even large business, probably one of your daily challenges is

Dec 11, 2018 Web Admin

Linux Mint 19

Quick update to the Linux Mint 19 beta post; LM 19 full version is simply outstanding. We are now running LM 19 on many of the PC at Covered Data and have seen its adoption by several clients we recently serviced. Despite the past valid arguments that the linux desktop wasn’t ready, it is our position

Dec 01, 2018 Web Admin

LinuxMint 19 – Beta

LinuxMint 19 beta Review Fast interface, boots quickly, and is overall pretty incredible. I have been running linuxmint 19 beta since it was released in the first week of June 2018 and love the new system. I have it running on a old HP Pavillion with a quad core 2.0 mhz 6 gigs of ram

Jun 26, 2018 Web Admin

Top 6 Ransomware Defense Strategies

TOP 6 RANSOMWARE DEFENSE STRATEGIES Train your Users and Test their Knowledge Since ransomware infections often come through links and attachments inside emails, or from a website or web application, train your users how to recognize phishing attacks and suspicious links and attachments. Training is only part of the story. Admins must also make sure

Jun 05, 2018 Web Admin

VLC 3.0 Now Available

Video Lan VLC 3.0 now available The video lan VLC 3.0 is now available after a long 2 year developing and creation of improvements. The famously free and extremely capable player that we have all come to love is now ready. The new player now supports chromecast, activates hardware decoding by default and renders 4K&8K

Feb 12, 2018 Web Admin

Malwarebytes Gartner Visionary

Malwarebytes recognized by Gartner as Visionary Congrats to our Partner and friend Malwarebytes for being recognized by Gartner as a visionary in the world of antivirus and malware protection. We of course, have known about the vision for many many years and really appreciate the protection that that vision provides our clients. We work hand and

Feb 12, 2018 Web Admin

Traditional Antivirus Fails 40%

New Research Research provided to us by our partner and leading next-gen cybersecurity expert Malwarebytes, tells us that traditional AV vendors are missing the 40 percent of the time. The detection’s seen on 10 million PCs, servers, and other devices, had one of the 4 top AV vendors software installed. These statistic should be alarming to

Oct 26, 2017 Web Admin