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Hard Drive Quarterly Report

Consumer backup provider Backblaze has released their quarterly hard drive performance report. This report is always notable because it is the largest ongoing study across a variety of non-enterprise hard drives. In other words: it measures what matters. The #1 ...

855-785-2511 Scam

This afternoon one of our technicians was chatting with a legitimate support rep from a well-known vendor. The support rep correctly said that he could not help with the issue over web chat but to call 855-785-2511. When our technician ...

Apple 13-inch MacBook Pro (non Touch Bar) Battery Replacement Program

Apple just announced a battery replacement program for certain 13 inch MacBook Pro's (non touch bar) manufactured between October 2016 and October 2017. From Apple: Apple has determined that, in a limited number of 13-inch MacBook Pro (non Touch Bar) ...

Techs: Mac "Critical Error" Loop

We recently came across this error, "A critical software update is required for your Mac." Attempting to install this update would result in another error, "A critical software update is required for your Mac, but an error was encountered while ...

CCleaner Distributing Malware

Summary On Monday, September 18th, Cisco's Talos reported that the popular computer cleaning utility, CCleaner, was found to distributing Malware for about the last month. For a period of time, the legitimate signed version of CCleaner 5.33 being distributed by Avast also ...