How to Spot A Tech Scam Before You Get Stung
How to Spot A Tech Scam Before You Get Stung If your computer had a virus, you’d want to know about it ASAP, right? Before your important files become corrupted, you lose your photos [...]
7 12, 2020
4 12, 2020
Could Your Backups Survive A Ransomware Attack?
Could Your Backups Survive A Ransomware Attack? More and more businesses and organizations are getting stung by ransomware demands. Hospitals, schools, social networks…some days it seems like an epidemic that leaps around arbitrarily, and [...]
3 12, 2020
How Many Good Battery Habits Do You Really Have?
How Many Good Battery Habits Do You Really Have? Batteries are rarely talked about - until they’re drained – then we’ll tell everyone as we beg desperately for a charger, hoping to get enough [...]
17 10, 2020
Cyber Attack Awareness
Cyber Attack AwarenessMainstay Computing is seeing an increase in cyber-attacks, particularly related to ransomware. Ransomware is a serious cyber-attack on an organization where systems can be locked, files can be encrypted and even worse, sensitive [...]
8 10, 2020
Why Do Computers Break?
Why Do Computers Break? We know computers always break at the worst possible time, but what exactly prompts that failure? It’s easy to think it was something you did since you were using it [...]
12 09, 2020
What’s That Weird Noise Coming from Your Computer?
What’s That Weird Noise Coming from Your Computer? New computers are whisper quiet, seeming to run on pure magic, but after a while computers can start making some pretty weird noises. Clicks, clunks, and about-to-take-off [...]
27 08, 2020
Is Your Business’s IT Ready for the Coronavirus?
Is Your Business's IT Ready for the Coronavirus? The Coronavirus is spreading as fast as feared. Business must be ready for the worst. One priority? Protecting the health of employees. Preparing the way for [...]
10 10, 2019
Beware of Phishing – Mainstay Computing
Beware of Phishing
9 10, 2019
How to Get Your Devices to Play Nicely Together: Home Networking Help
How to Get Your Devices to Play Nicely Together: Home Networking Help Why can't we all just get along? You've probably thought that before. But the sentiment is also one that goes through [...]
2 10, 2019
Facebook is for Sharing, Not Storing
Facebook is for Sharing, Not Storing When was the last time you held an actual photo album or actual prints of photographs in your hands? Maybe you look back at older photographs only when [...]