For those with cable Internet providers like Comcast, Mediacom, Time Warner Cable, and others, there is a common cost savings method of buying your own cable modem. One of the most popular modems to buy is the ARRIS SURFboard 6141 cable modem. As it only costs $70 on Amazon.com, it can pay for itself in less than a year with a monthly rental of $5.99 or higher from the … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2016
Symantec Cloud portal suffers all-day outage
The portal to access and manage Symantec.cloud (the antivirus and other services hosted by Symantec in order to reduce the local infrastructure required) is suffering an outage that has been going on all day today. The company is not being very disclosing of the incident directly to customers or through social media channel despite being quite disruptive to their customers. The … [Read more...]
Car troubles? There’s an app for that!
This post brought to you by Urgent.ly. The content and opinions expressed below are that of 404 Tech Support. Have you ever wanted the convenience and peace of mind of a car service but did not want to pay the annual subscription for a service you may not even need? That's where Urgent.ly comes in. It's an on-demand roadside assistance service and you only pay when you use … [Read more...]
Protect your organization from ransomware by blocking macros in Office 2016 through Group Policy
Microsoft has updated the available Office 2016 Administrative Templates for Group Policy configuration. The updated admx files include new settings to block macros from running in Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, or PowerPoint presentations that originated from the Internet. Microsoft has provided this updated mitigation to provide control to a popular vector that malware, … [Read more...]
Grandkids equal free tech support
Ally Bank has a commercial out that passes the baton to the next generation. Grandkids = free tech support. These grandparents are more excited to get their tech fixed than to see their grandchildren. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL2wal9Wp-E Well, perhaps the "tech support" is not quite free. In the blog post accompanying the ad, Ally provided an invoice to request … [Read more...]