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EMV / PCI and You

EMV (Europay, Mastercard, Visa) is the new standard in credit and debit cards containing the new “one transaction, one key number” microchip.

The new “chip” card has been in use in other parts of the world for several years now.  Starting October 1st 2015 in the US, all credit and debit card transactions should be conducted on the appropriate equipment. After October 1st, “the liability for card-…

Are You Ready For The Arrival Of Hurricane Joaquin This Weekend?

Hurricane Joaquin

The work week is almost over and you want to relax. Can you really relax when you are worrying about your servers, network, computers and data?

A storm of this size has the potential to bring not only wind and rain damage, but it can also bring a wide variety of power problems including outages and surges. The better prepared you are, the less you have to worry and the more you…

Welcome to our new Windows 10 Forum!

We would like to encourage everyone who has started using Windows 10 to post their comments and questions here, and we will do our best to provide our own insight on this latest version of the Windows operating system.

We look forward to hearing from you!

-The PJ Networks Team

Windows 10 Makes Its Debut! Is it Too Soon To Upgrade?

Microsoft released the official version of Windows 10 yesterday, and it is a free upgrade for computers running retail versions of Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 with a valid license.  For more details on whether or not a computer qualifies for the free upgrade, this article from PCWorld explains it in more detail: http://www.pcworld.com/Windows10-Upgrade

We can’t possibly cover everything about…

Today is the day! Final Updates For Server 2003 Are Released.

Well, this day has been coming for a while, and today it is official.  Microsoft is releasing its final round of security updates and patches for Server 2003 and officially retiring the operating system.  We won’t go into too much detail in this post, since we’ve already covered it in previous blogs.

As this article from SiliconANGLE states, there are some very legitimate reasons to be moving up…

By now, almost everyone is aware of Microsoft’s Windows XP’s official end-of-life, which took place last year.  This year, another popular Windows version is also going to have its support dropped.

Windows Server 2003is the “bigger brother” to Windows XP, and is designed to run on all kinds of servers, ranging from a simple file server for a small business to clusters of servers in a datacenter.…

Think you’re safe with your Lenovo ThinkPad? Think again!

You may have heard in the news recently that Lenovo was caught pre-installing software on their notebook computers that was supposed to be helping users with “discovering products similar to what they are viewing”, according to Lenovo’s web site.  What that actually means is that they were installing software from a company called Superfish that would display its preferred products in your…

HACKER ALERT! Don’t get locked out of your own computer

There is a malicious software called Kovter that has been floating around the Internet for several years now, locking people out of their computers, threatening them with warnings about turning them into the FBI for looking at online porn and demanding a $300 ransom in order to “unlock” the computer and simply make the problem go away.

Sound like some kind of far-fetched plot from a Sci-Fi…

Windows 10 Is Coming Next Year – Will It Be Worth The Wait?

 It’s no big secret that Windows 8 (or 8.1) hasn’t been the most popular operating system that Microsoft has ever released.  (That would be Windows 7, in case you were wondering).

Windows XP was around for a long time, and even after Windows Vista was released, Windows XP held onto the title of most popular version of Windows ever; Vista never took the top spot.  Well, it’s looking like the same…