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Micro Doctor Holds 2nd Successful Wine Tasting Business Mixer

Starting this year, to celebrate 25 years of success, Micro Doctor is holding several of these one-of-a-kind business mixer events. The first event was at the Trumbull Country Club in Warren, Ohio. The latest event was held at the Magic Tree Pub and Eatery in Youngstown, Ohio. The food there was tasteful and the wines, […]

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CryptoWall….It’s Baaaack!

Cryptowall is a variant of the old Cryptolocker Virus or Trojan horse that encrypts files on the compromised computer. It then asks the user to pay to have the files decrypted. We call that type of exploit Ransomware! The Department of Justice infiltrated the Cryptolocker servers and put up a website https://www.decryptcryptolocker.com/ to allow victims to decrypt their files for free.

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Heartbleed affected websites – What you need to know about the OpenSSL vulnerability

Micro Doctor has been hard at work evaluating the effects of Heartbleed Vulnerability and whether or not we have any potential concerns for your systems. First we looked at our internal and external servers. Luckily our main security vendor, Sonicwall, protects us against any Heartbleed exploits. None of the Sonicwall firewalls have any vulnerability to Heartbleed

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HIPAA and Windows XP

Next month on April 8, 2014, Microsoft will stop supplying security updates and patches for Windows XP and Office 2003. So does that mean you have to instantly replace all your computers running Windows XP?

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Virtualizing Servers lowered our Electric Bill

Micro Doctor previously had about 20 Servers in our Warren, Ohio corporate office and data center. A couple of years ago we started a project to virtualize our data center servers. This means that we transitioned what were previously many separate physical servers, into just a few physical machines that each hold multiple virtualized servers. The reasons we wanted to do this were ease of management, lower cost of hardware per server

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