InterGuard - EMPLOYEE MONITORING

InterGuard is a complete insider threat prevention platform that is deployed at the endpoint and delivered in SaaS format.

The agent includes 4 modules

• Web Filtering

• Employee Monitoring & Productivity

• ^{Laptop Recovery}

• ^{Data Loss Prevention}

All four modules are available either separately or together through one agent download and viewable through one control console.

Monitor all communications (email, instant messages, webmail)

Take screenshots of any desired computer activity

Record all keystrokes if desired

Cutting edge webfiltering (control websurfing and block access to inappropriate websites)

Block access to time-wasting software programs

^{(games, video players, etc.)}

_{Set time schedules for when applications can be used}

If you want to take a look and instantly see what the software looks like without having to install anything, just log into the Test Drive below and you’ll be able to see a fully working version of InterGuard

Just type in www.sonarcentral.com and use this info to log in:

Username: test

Password: drive

Additional Information:

• Supports different settings for each user

• No hardware required

• Can be used in a Terminal

• Server or Citrix environment

• Ties in with Active Directory

Quick and easy silent deployment with no user prompts if desired

Then, out of no where everything goes black. No cursor no nothing.

Your computer has crashed.

You struggle to remember if and when you had saved the masterpiece you were working on. You pray autosave was autosaving. You have a feeling you won’t be able to recapture the magic if you had to recreate what you were working on.

Have no fear, you have options.

A lot of our customers find us in search engines by typing in something like Jersey City, NJ computer repair or computer repair companies in New Jersey. We find that many of these cases do not suffer from what we would describe as a broken computer. Instead they have experienced what I described above.

We know there is no worse feeling than when you lose files due to a crash. Luckily we are experts in data recovery.

Depending on the situation, sometimes all that is needed is a registry cleaner, or to look if your operating system stored a previous draft of your work.

If there is disk damage, you will most likely require expert help

Check out this article that goes through scenarios that pop up when PCs crash.

For whatever reason Internet security systems in New Jersey seem to consistently be flawed in that they lack the proper protection. Protection that is not expensive these days (you get what you pay for).

There are a gazillion products on the market that can effectiveley protect your data from hackers. With a little research, you can pick the one with the appropriate features for your specific needs. Considering the availablity and price of such software, AND the immense rick being taken by not addressingyour Internet security, it seems like a no brainer to go out and pick up a product for your personal or professional use.

No doing so could mean your paypal info, credit card info, home address and phone number even private personal material such as photos and videos could be compromised and put ito the wrong hands.

Instead of listing the pros and cons of individual spyware removers, HERE is a link that sums up the best products on the market.

If you are on the hunt for these so called “hot spots” there are some important considerations to take into account.

Check out the details here.

Some of this info has been covered in past posts, so for now I am just going to concentrate on what a registry cleaner can do to speed up your PC and when to use it.

The best instances to use a registry cleaner for your home computer is when you have little to no hard drive space remaining. This can be checked in Windows by going to My Computer and checking out the C drive. So if you do find yourself with very little space, definitely look into the registry option.

The first thing to do is to make sure whatever registry cleaner you are looking into is compatible with your operating system. Assuming it is, the next step is to research the software online to see what reviews you can find.

Also, make sure the cleaner has a comprehensive scan feature, as this is the most effective means of finding errors in your registry that are bogging down you PC. 99% of online registries offer a free trial where you can check out the comprehensive scan at no cost.

A nice little write up that goes into a bit more detail can be found here.

When working with Internet security problems on a regular basis, certain things pop up over and over again. he purpose of this post is to dole out some basic tips on what you can do to significantly improve your over all Internet security…whether you reside in NJ or not.

Below you will find a link to an excellent article detailing exactly what to do to make sure you keep your very valuable and important information safe. This applies to personal files such as photos, records, video etc. as well as general business information your company stores online.

To summarize the main takeaways..

1. Always be very cautions and conservative about what information you put online and who who give it to. Not all websites have secure ordering and not all emails can’t be hacked. So make sure you know where you are placing your data.

2. Email is a prime time method used by the less-than-ethical among us to try and steal info from you and or hack personal information. Don’t assume every hyperlink is ok to click on.

3. Keep current and update your anti-virus software regularly.

4. make sure you are using the security features that come pre-installed in your browser (I recommend FireFox).

5. Altho0ugh you may trust friends with your passwords…can you be sure they don’t have a virus themselves?

6. Regularly backup all your most essential data and keep it offline.

7. Get a plan in place  in case the worst happens. So many computer repairs in Jersey City and other NJ locations we have worked with could have been avoided were a proper plan in place to limit damage once a person or businesses Internet security is breached.

For more in depth info on these steps, check out this.

A subset of this category is laptops, which require a somewhat different set of skills to repair than are used with desktops. In order to help you out, I have posted a link to a great article to help people choose the perfect laptop for themselves….

Laptops are everywhere these days. Years ago a typical family would have one main computer, now it seems as though each family member wants their own individual laptop. Most people are not informed about what laptop makes the most sense for their particular needs. This leads to people purchasing expensive machines that either don’t do what they need, or do WAY more than they need.

This article does a tremendous job of explaining what everyone should be thinking about when it is time to buy a laptop.

Covered in the article are topics such as

-Size

-Hard Drive

-Ram

-CPU

-Cennections

-Battery

-Accessories

They author points out that buying a laptop is not your typical buying decision. He uses jeans as a metaphor, because you don’t get to try on a laptop in a dressing room to see if it fits before making a purchase.

This article will benefit anyone looking to get a laptop, no matter what purpose they intent to use it for.

Take care…

One of the best ways to seep up your PC is to defragment your hard drive. Fragmentation is a big, very common problem for computer owners and it only gets worse over time. Luckily defrag’ing your hard drive is not only very effective at getting your PC running faster, but it is also easy. Even better,, most PC’s and Mac’s come pre-installed with defragmenting ability.

I came this terrific article summarizing all the info you need to know regarding defragmenting a hard drive.

Topics covered include:

Why it is necessary to defragment hard drives regularly?

When is the best time to defrag your PC or Mac?

What are the best practices for going about the defrag process?

What to avoid when running defragmenting software.

You can find the article here.

Also within the article are the step by step instructions  to defragment a computer. Everyone loves step by step advice, and this is written in a way that is easily understanable.

Until next time…

Some of the main ideas hit upon here are guarding against theft by data encryption.

computer repair tips you need to know.

Risks of wireless connections to laptop users.

All in all I found this short article very informative and thought it would be a nice lesson for laptop owners. So take in the info here

* You can double-click a word to highlight it in any document, e-mail or Web page.

* When you get an e-mail message from eBay or your bank, claiming that you have an account problem or a question from a buyer, it’s probably a “phishing scam” intended to trick you into typing your password. Don’t click the link in the message. If in doubt, go into your browser and type “www.ebay.com” (or whatever) manually.

* Nobody, but nobody, is going to give you half of $80 million to help them liberate the funds of a deceased millionaire…from Nigeria or anywhere else.

* You can hide all windows, revealing only what’s on the computer desktop, with one keystroke: hit the Windows key and “D” simultaneously in Windows, or press F11 on Macs (on recent Mac laptops, Command+F3; Command is the key with the cloverleaf logo). That’s great when you want examine or delete something you’ve just downloaded to the desktop, for example. Press the keystroke again to return to what you were doing.

* You can enlarge the text on any Web page. In Windows, press Ctrl and the plus or minus keys (for bigger or smaller fonts); on the Mac, it’s the Command key and plus or minus.

* You can also enlarge the entire Web page or document by pressing the Control key as you turn the wheel on top of your mouse. On the Mac, this enlarges the entire screen image.

* The number of megapixels does not determine a camera’s picture quality; that’s a marketing myth. The sensor size is far more important. (Use Google to find it. For example, search for “sensor size Nikon D90.”)

* On most cellphones, press the Send key to open up a list of recent calls. Instead of manually dialing, you can return a call by highlighting one of these calls and pressing Send again.

* When someone sends you some shocking e-mail and suggests that you pass it on, don’t. At least not until you’ve first confirmed its truth at snopes.com, the Internet’s authority on e-mailed myths. This includes get-rich schemes, Microsoft/AOL cash giveaways, and–especially lately–nutty scare-tactic messages about our Presidential candidates.

* You can tap the Space bar to scroll down on a Web page one screenful. Add the Shift key to scroll back up.

* When you’re filling in the boxes on a Web page (like City, State, Zip), you can press the Tab key to jump from box to box, rather than clicking. Add the Shift key to jump through the boxes backwards.

* You can adjust the size and position of any window on your computer. Drag the top strip to move it; drag the lower-right corner (Mac) or any edge (Windows) to resize it.

* Forcing the camera’s flash to go off prevents silhouetted, too-dark faces when you’re outdoors.

* When you’re searching for something on the Web using, say, Google, put quotes around phrases that must be searched together. For example, if you put quotes around “electric curtains,” Google won’t waste your time finding one set of Web pages containing the word “electric” and another set containing the word “curtains.”

* You can use Google to do math for you. Just type the equation, like 23*7+15/3=, and hit Enter.

* Oh, yeah: on the computer, * means “times” and / means “divided by.”

* If you can’t find some obvious command, like Delete in a photo program, try clicking using the right-side mouse button. (On the Mac, you can Control-click instead.)

* Google is also a units-of-measurement and currency converter. Type “teaspoons in 1.3 gallons,” for example, or “euros in 17 dollars.” Click Search to see the answer.

* You can open the Start menu by tapping the key with the Windows logo on it.

* You can switch from one open program to the next by pressing Alt+Tab (Windows) or Command-Tab (Mac).

* You generally can’t send someone more than a couple of full-size digital photos as an e-mail attachment; those files are too big, and they’ll bounce back to you. (Instead, use iPhoto or Picasa–photo-organizing programs that can automatically scale down photos in the process of e-mailing them.)

* Whatever technology you buy today will be obsolete soon, but you can avoid heartache by learning the cycles. New iPods come out every September. New digital cameras come out in February and October.

* Just putting something into the Trash or the Recycle Bin doesn’t actually delete it. You then have to *empty* the Trash or Recycle Bin. (Once a year, I hear about somebody whose hard drive is full, despite having practically no files. It’s because over the years, they’ve put 79 gigabytes’ worth of stuff in the Recycle Bin and never emptied it.)

* You don’t have to type “http://www” into your Web browser. Just type the remainder: “nytimes.com” or “dilbert.com,” for example. (In the Safari browser, you can even leave off the “.com” part.)

* On the iPhone, hit the Space bar twice at the end of a sentence. You get a period, a space, and a capitalized letter at the beginning of the next word.

* Come up with an automated backup system for your computer. There’s no misery quite like the sick feeling of having lost chunks of your life because you didn’t have a safety copy. In windows vista you can back up all your programs and files to an external device by clicking on the start menu, all programs, accessories, system tools and choosing backup; Then follow the wizard instructions to backup your system.

What are your favorite basics-that-you-thought-everyone-knew? Send us your comments.