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5 Easy Ways to Save Money on IT Expenses

By GreenLoop

Call your ISP to make sure you’re getting the best pricing and speed. Have you been with the same Internet Service Provider (ISP) for more than 2 years?  If so, there’s a good chance you can reduce your monthly bill…

Cryptowall Ransomware—a New Kind of Threat

By GreenLoop

A Trojan is a type of virus that misrepresents itself as a document or a good program. Once you click on it, your computer is infected.  The most common way Trojans are delivered is via email is called cryptowall ransomware.…

What is an external security scan? Why should you care?

By GreenLoop

If your company has internet access, then you have what is called a public IP address. This address (a series of four numbers separated by a period i.e. – 123.456.789.111) is assigned to you by your ISP (Internet Service Provider). …

Community Outreach: Giving Back

By GreenLoop

GreenLoop isn’t only striving to create better technology environments for our clients; we also work to make a positive impact within our community outreach. It is our philosophy to give back when we can and always try to make a…

What Your Business Needs to Know About Windows 10

By GreenLoop

As many of our clients are probably already aware, Microsoft plans to release the latest version of the Windows operating system, Windows 10, on July 29, 2015 (no, you didn’t miss “Windows 9”; Microsoft decided to skip straight from Windows…

Is my data really backed up? How do I know? What can I do to find out?

By GreenLoop

Interesting Facts: Approximately 80% of small business owners think they have a good backup system in place when asked during GreenLoop’s initial consultation. Of this 80% who believe they have a good backup system in place: 22% have absolutely no…

Problem Steps Recorder – The Windows secret your helpdesk loves

By GreenLoop

You’ve tried clicking on every button, held down every key, but your application still won’t work. The same error screen keeps coming up, then another one, and they all look the same: “Windows error 0x8bla bla bla, bla”. It seems…

End of Server 2003 is rapidly approaching. Will you be ready?

By GreenLoop

Many people probably remember the media hype back in April surrounding Microsoft Windows XP reaching end of server 2003 and no longer being supported by Microsoft–hopefully you’ve upgraded all your desktop PCs to Windows 7 or 8 by now! Less…

10 Hidden IT Risks That Might Threaten Your Business

By GreenLoop

Your business depends on intelligence. But can you count on your technology? You may not be in the intelligence technology business but you must know this hidden IT risks, but it’s probably impossible to imagine your business without IT. Today,…