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For weeks now Microsoft Teams has displayed this warning every time you login. It may be that you have come to read this article because you are noting this message and are wondering how to proceed? However we have no guidance to offer on this that is likely to solve your problem, we are also […] Read more »
We hope the next show manages a bigger venue, and that more sponsors, including Spire, VIP, who were present, and perhaps Northamber, Ci Distribution, Exertis, Tech Data and Ingram (who weren’t), could step up to the plate, and not only help financially, but push these events to their customers. We did not learn of this […] Read more »
We are Open again! (well sort of)…. Bojo and his pals have decided that we may now allow you into our store, forgive us but we feel a bit like the clowns yoyo. However we are pleased that we can once again welcome you (albeit one by one), into ComputerBits, and sell you goods and […] Read more »
Microsoft is Going to release windows Ten as an online upgrade to millions of PC users starting in the next 24 hours. We have been watching and participating in the development of this new Operating System and our opinion is that you may well regret jumping in at this point! This is not because we […] Read more »
The release date for Windows 10 is getting closer and closer by the day and even now, the majority of the larger bugs have been squashed by Microsoft. One thing we just can't understand is the lack of features in some of the new 'Metro' or 'Modern' apps. For instance, take a look at the […] Read more »
Microsoft are releasing a new version of the Windows operating system on July 29th. They have not told us how this will be priced, but they have said that any user with a valid existing version of Windows 7,8 or 8.1 will be able to get a free upgrade for the first year of release […] Read more »
Today we have had a whole batch of “Amazon” emails with zip file attachments, oh so convincing (at first glance) and, oh so easy to activate with an un-thinking mouseclick. This email arrived in between me emailing a complaint to an Amazon seller that the product they sent (& for my daughters birthday!), was not […] Read more »
If you read around the items here you will get a reasonable handle on the problem, we wrote about it here: http://www.cbits.co.uk/ourblog/news/fake-flash-player-update-virus-routers-tp-link/ In essence Malware based on Conduit Search infects a machine, this is then able to alter the search settings in certain routers, on TP-Link (TD-W8901, being common- It’s a huge seller so lots […] Read more »
(Updated 6/3/14 am) This malware seems to be being delivered as a "Update to Flash Player", which we now think is changing settings in Routers so that ALL DEVICES on the local network are routing to conduit.com servers, we have seen routers where we set server addresses yesterday, and this morning the router DNS changed […] Read more »
