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How to Get Best Wifi Performance Placement of your wifi router largely affects the connection No matter which provider you choose to go with, there are several things you can do at home to keep your connection running smoothly. Specifically, where you place your wifi router has a big impact on the quality of your wifi connection. WHERE TO PUT YOUR ROUTER We recommend to keep the wifi router standing upright and off of the floor, such as on a shelf or table, keeping it off of other equipment to reduce interference and in the center of the house. WHERE NOT TO PUT YOUR ROUTER One should never place their router near. Other wireless devices Microwaves Television Bluetooth devices The corner of a basement or far-off corner Baby monitors Cordless phones Inside or behind cabinets and furniture Anything that could block modem vents Metal building materials Concrete building materials Glass building materials Depending on the layout of your home, it may be difficult to avoid every single one of...

71M Compromised Email Accounts Listed Online, How to Check Yours Find out if your email address is one of the nearly 71 million in the recent Naz.API data breach dump.  https://haveibeenpwned.com/ 

 What ??? Like Rick of Pawn Star says, you don't know what comes in through the door, We too are always challenged with what comes through the door. Laptop been through the accident came in for data recovery. Lucky for the customer, we could successfully recover the data from this crushed piece of once a laptop. These kinds of accidents can really save one's skin if proper data backup strategy is implemented. We are here to help for any such situations and to guide you to establish Bullet Proof Backup.

New Warning from FBI FBI warns of search engine ads pushing malware, phishing. The FBI warns that threat actors are using search engine advertisements to promote websites distributing ransomware or stealing login credentials for financial institutions and crypto exchanges. In today's public service announcement, the federal law enforcement agency said threat actors purchase advertisements that impersonate legitimate businesses or services. These ads appear at the top of search result pages and link to sites that look identical to the impersonated company's website. "When a user searches for that business or service, these advertisements appear at the very top of search results with minimum distinction between an advertisement and an actual search result," warns the FBI. "These advertisements link to a webpage that looks identical to the impersonated business's official webpage." When searching for software, the FBI says advertisements will link to websit...

Scammers try it on me So this morning my Gmail inbox had a genuine email from PayPal that said someone has requested money as attached. Since it was from PayPal, Gmail spam filters didn't block it and as you can see it's legit email. The sender, reason & the content of it were suspicious. So be careful with this new kind of campaign from the scammers who are always trying new tactics to scam the innocents.

What to do with old functioning hardware ? In todays world we see many products which are being phased out/discontinued/declared vintage for reasons best we all know - Corporate Greed. Be it Apple, Microsoft, Intel and so on, they all discontinue old models and release new one with the new Operating System which would work only with the new hardware. Has anyone ever thought of environmental impact of making old hardware useless ? We at CompuGuru have always worked with clear objective of salvaging any old piece of hardware and stopping it from going to landfill. So what we do to use such discontinued hardware?? Well there are other people who think alike and develop workarounds to these situations and we are happy to join hands with them. We provide various services to breath life in to such old hardware, bringing them up to date with the latest Operating Systems be it old Mac or PC. What we offer is upgrading them saving all your data & making them at par with the latest models fo...

We are honored to be voted a 2023 @Nextdoor Neighborhood Fave. Thank you to our neighbors! We are honored to be voted a 2023 @Nextdoor Neighborhood Fave. This award means so much for our business and helps us continue to grow in our community!