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    TrueCrypt: On-The-Fly Disk Encryption 

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    Andrey Rozmaity
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    Published on 09-02-2010 04:23 PM

    TrueCrypt: On-The-Fly Disk Encryption


    Are you looking to encrypt your client’s (or your own) hard drive or USB flash drive? TrueCrypt is open source software that does on-the-fly encryption. It supports AES, Serpent, Twofish, and 5 cascaded algorithms. You can use TrueCrypt to encrypt files, folders, or even whole drives.

    It’s fairly easy to use, secure, and best of all – FREE.



    What is TrueCrypt?
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    WinSCP: FTP, SFTP, & SCP (SSH) - Webmaster Worthy 

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    Published on 08-24-2010 01:07 AM

    WinSCP: FTP, SFTP, & SCP (SSH)


    Webmasters spend a lot of time online downloading files, uploading files, moving files, and copying files. What is your FTP client of choice? FileZilla, SmartFTP, or CuteFTP? Uninstall it!

    WinSCP is one program that I use every single day. I have about 15 websites that I access regularly and I have created a profile (session) in WinSCP for each website. The profile has the host name, port, user name, password, and file protocol (usually FTP) for each website and ...
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    Should You Start A Computer Repair Business? 

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    Published on 08-21-2010 03:26 AM

    Should You Start A Computer Repair Business?

    Starting a computer repair business is exciting, hard work, requires patience, and is rewarding. Unfortunately, 50% of small business fail in the first 5 years (U.S. Small Business Administration). Should you start a computer repair business?


    Are you passionate about PCs? Are you strongly motivated to succeed?
    If computer repair isn't something you like to do... don't even think about starting your own business! Why invest your time into something you don't ...
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    Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware: Your Best Friend 

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    Published on 08-14-2010 02:01 AM

    Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware


    We Techs have a love / hate relationship with malware. We hate the damage that malware can do and how much of a pain in the ass it can be to remove (of course most of us enjoy the challenge). We "love" malware because it's our bread and butter and job security.

    We all have probably encountered a virus that was difficult to remove. None of the virus removal steps seemed to work, the anti-virus program on that PC was disarmed, the virus prevented the ...
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    Pidgin: All Of Your Instant Messaging Networks In One 

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    Published on 08-12-2010 04:05 AM



    As a computer repair business, it is important to support as many methods of communications with your clients as possible. They can call you, email you, but can they instant message you? There are dozens of instant messaging networks online that have from millions of users to hundreds of millions of users. Some of the larger instant messaging networks are: AIM, Google Talk, MSN/Live, Skype, & Yahoo.

    Should you run 3, 10, or more instant messaging clients just to provide your clients with another way to reach you or meet their ...
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    PC Technicians: Our Mission Statement 

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    Published on 08-11-2010 11:15 AM

    PC Technicians: Our Mission Statement

    Hello and welcome fellow Tech!

    We are hoping to build not just another PC Tech forum, but a community of computer technicians to network and support each other.
    Our mission is to become a community and resource for all PC Techs:

    - Computer technicians that want to start their own computer repair business
    - Computer technicians that currently own a computer repair business
    - Computer technicians that work for another company or are looking for work

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    Yesterday, I attended a BNI chapter for the first time and loved it. (Hated the morning traffic and the 1 hour drive)
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    Welcome to PC Techs! I like all of the different cartoon doctor on your website. Best of luck!

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    Wow... This is something I'm also at risk for happening to me. I'm putting off creating a Service Release form because I want my business to be paperless.

    Legal problems!!!!

    Andrey Rozmaity 08-29-2010 10:51 PM Go to last post
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    Hello!!!!

    Four weeks ago, I had a costumer who asked to repair her pc. It was an old machine with a lot of virus and spyware, two antivirus

    Legal problems!!!!

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