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Mobile Telephone Scam

Ireland has been hit with a new mobile phone scam coming from Slovenia. This has been going on several days now and becoming more widespread.

Irish mobile users receive one-second calls, or missed calls, from a number that could be mistaken for that of an Irish mobile – but its a premium number in Slovenia.

If the […]

By |November 28th, 2014|Knowledge Base, Uncategorized|0 Comments

Remove An Garda Síochána virus (Scam)

The An Garda Síochána Ukash Ransom-ware is a computer virus, which will display a bogus alert, that pretends to be from the An Garda Síochána of Belgium and states that your computer has been blocked due to it being involved with the distribution of pornographic material, SPAM and copyrighted content.

The An Garda Síochána virus will […]

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Phone call from “Microsoft” to fix your computer is a scam

If you receive any spontaneous phone call or email from someone claiming to be from Microsoft and they need to fix your computer, it is a scam. I have been receiving reports from some customers that they are receiving these hoax phone calls. The caller will usually say your computer has been hacked or they […]

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You Have Wireless access but you have no internet access

Open Control Panel (Start – Control Panel)

Click on “Network and Sharing Center”

Click on “Change Adapter Settings”

 

Choose “Properties”

 

Highlight Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4) and Choose “Properties”

 

Make Sure that “Obtain an IP address automatically” and “Obtain DNS server address automatically” are selected

 

Press “ok” and “close” on the next screen and exit any other screens that are open

 

Restart […]

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