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Con men are nothing new. They’ve been nicking the tiles of our roofs since, well, since we started putting tiles on roofs. No matter how many people there are in the world, it seems to be a biological fact that a proportion of them will be inveterate scammers. But the Internet has given them the power and sophistication to pull the wool over people’s eyes in ever more dastardly ways. Over three million scams succeed each year in the UK alone, costing an estimated £3.3billion.

It's amazing how many people still don’t back up their computers. Your hard drive is likely to contain irreplaceable precious family photos, documents, music, videos and emails. Imagine them all now – gone forever. What would you lose? Let's clear up a few things: ALL HARD DRIVES ARE DESTINED TO FAIL. It’s just a matter of when. Some take many years, others fail much sooner, but it WILL happen. A backup is a DUPLICATE COPY of your data to a SEPARATE location (NOT copied to t

Almost everyone uses Microsoft Office software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc). If you pay an annual subscription to Microsoft 365 for your Office software (as most people do), then you also have other benefits included which you may not be aware of. One of these is OneDrive, which gives you 1TB of cloud storage through Microsoft (1TB is 1000GB). OneDrive works by installing a small application which creates a ‘OneDrive’ folder on your computer. Any files you store in here are