Category Archives: Our Blog

It looks like those pesky phishing people are at it again – this time with an email good enough to nearly fool me!
I’ve had several people contact me today about an email apparently from PayPal concerning an order from Dell.  Everything about the email looks legitimate and all the links appear to go to PayPal [...]

In this newsletter:
1. DRG is 5 years old
2. Business Continuity
3. Social media and business
4. Don’t forget our blog
5. Linux in the classroom
DRG is 5 years old!
Since Paul first setup DRG Technology from his spare room in 2005, DRG has gone from strength to strength. With over 800 clients [...]

Disasters are in the news again – floods in Southland, volcanic eruptions in Iceland, earthquakes in Chile!  Is your business ready for a disaster?
Now is the time to be thinking about your business continuity.
What is Business Continuity? It is the planning for how your business will survive a disaster.  And a disaster doesn’t [...]

Linux, the free operating system for PC’s, has come along way since its first appearance in the early 90’s.  Created by Linus Torvalds in 1991 as a free alternative to UNIX, it is now widely used in numerous systems from servers to netbooks.   Various versions (distros) have been created over the years – Red Hat, [...]

BNI Millennium and SANZ are again hosting our annual golf tournament – this time to support two local Hospices : North Shore and Warkworth.

Last year, we raised over $8000. This year, with your support, we hope to do even better.

Date Sunday 2nd May
Venue Warkworth Golf Course
Time 12:00 pm shotgun start
Greenfee $50 per person

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IT Technical Consultant needed

Can you demonstrate 3 years of IT experience?
Server/Network experience?
Flexible can-do attitude?
Committed to providing excellent customer service?

PROVE IT!

See our jobs page for more details.

Hackers have flooded the internet with virus-tainted spam that targets Facebook’s estimated 400 million users in an effort to steal banking passwords and gather other sensitive information, tells NZ’s stuff.co.nz.
The email, also sent to DRG Technology, will advise you that your password has been reset, and that the recipient needs to click on the attachment [...]

This week I received a nice email from the IRD, telling me I had a refund due to me.  In fact I was expecting a refund, although a lot smaller than this email told me I was getting, so, rather than just deleting the email as junk, I read it.

Sure enough my first thought was [...]

Another warning about PC Live Care – it now comes with tech support!
According to the web site www.itworldcanada.com PC Live Care now has online support designed to convince victims that the product is legitimate. The agent answers message by instant message. Symantec Corp. warns support staff try to persuade users to buy products for up [...]

We are starting to see a number of infections of PC Live Care. This virus follows on from Anti-virus 2010, Anti-virus 2009, Anti-virus Vista and a few other similar ones. It will place a number of files on your PC that look live viruses and then it will pop up with security alerts [...]