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Small business cyber attacks

I guess you could look at that title, laugh and say it will never happen to me, but occurances of it happening are now regulalry reported on business sites, via the FSB etc. The following article from The Guardian's Business section explains what is happening and ways to deal with allied with a few frigthening stories of what happens to businesses like ours (ie you and me..).

"For vehicle hire company, MNH Platinum, a click of an email link opened up a virus that encrypted over 12,000 files on its network. A ransom demand followed – the criminals would decrypt the company’s files in exchange for more than £3,000. Nearly three-quarters of small organisations reported a security breach in the last year. Have you been targeted by cyber criminals? Have you taken steps to protect your business? (click to read full story)

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    A good reminder Gary.

    I used to use AVG but it slowed my computer. 

    I moved over the Microsoft Security Essentials (I' not a fan of MS but I was persuaded by online reviews). I have to say I've been impressed and I've certainly not noticed any problems with speed.

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      Personally I'd recommend Microsoft Security Essentials be backed up by maleware bytes anti-malware which is free (for just a scanner and an anti-exploit guard that runs with your browser and helps to protect against erenous links etc. but that is all you need if also using MSE) or if you want some more secure protection NOD32 is quite highly regarded.

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