Internet Safety Archives - Comstar, LLC

Offsite Backups: Does Your Small Business Do This?

Joseph Como — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 18:58:56 +0000

A day cannot go by without hearing about another new virus, malware, ransomware, cyber attack or some mischievous action that compromises business and personal systems. There are countless online reports that tally and analyze these data in a variety of manners. It can be truly mind boggling and scary to read about all the threats we need to constantly defend. ...

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Comstar’s Advanced Spam/Virus Filter

Robert Holdeman — Tue, 12 Jan 2016 19:00:13 +0000

In today’s virus-laden and prolific spamming environment, email filtering has become a necessity. A good, reliable, filtering system is needed to reduce the clutter so that you can spend your time reading the email you want, rather than the bulk that you do not. Comstar ‘s Advanced email filtering provides an individually configurable message center. This means that you can ...

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Online Contact Forms Can Spell L-E-A-D-S or S-P-A-M (or even S-C-A-M)

Robert Holdeman — Thu, 07 Jan 2016 23:54:15 +0000

One of the best means of getting leads from your website is an online form that can be completed by visitors who want to take you up on what your website offers or find out more about your business. As lead generation goes, those that come from a well-conceived online form are typically pretty solid, providing the information your sales ...

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Spam Is On the Rise! Or Is It Just Me?

Robert Holdeman — Wed, 02 Dec 2015 13:34:01 +0000

We’re all tired of opening our Inbox to find massive amounts of messages we did not ask for . Spammers are running rampant and threaten our very existence (or at least the first hour of our work day)! I mean, how many times can I hit the delete button before it breaks and I need to buy a new laptop? ...

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Just How Safe is My Critical Data?

Robert Holdeman — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 21:56:49 +0000

Sometimes you may have the need to transfer or store data off of your own network. Comstar’s data services make this easy. Data Backup There’s no question that a recent backup of important information is vital for both business and personal computers. Unfortunately, backing up is one of the first things we let slide only to find out how valuable ...

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Amazing so far! And it’s still advancing…

Joseph Como — Wed, 18 Nov 2015 20:53:13 +0000

As Comstar celebrates 20 years in business, I couldn’t help but to think how far technology has come in such a short amount of time. As I started my day at the office, I sat down, grabbed my coffee and reflected my first encounter with technology. Like many kids growing up in the early 1990’s, I was remembering the good ...

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Does it Make Sense to Host My Own Website?

Robert Holdeman — Wed, 21 Oct 2015 11:00:38 +0000

Upon deciding to build a website, your company’s first natural instinct may be to host the site internally. After all, you’ve got a computer and a broadband internet connection. That’s all you need right? Not quite. Do you have an on-site staff that is well educated in the areas of inter-networking, web server management, internet security? A staff that isn’t ...

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Comstar’s Hosting Environment

Robert Holdeman — Fri, 02 Oct 2015 20:22:04 +0000

In order for the world to see your website it has to be hosted on a computer that is always connected to the internet, available day and night. It is important for you to have a hosting provider that provides reliable, quality service. You can be assured that Comstar takes the necessary actions to provide excellence in your hosting experience. ...

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3 Ideas to stay safe and secure on the web.

Joseph Como — Mon, 17 Aug 2015 19:36:46 +0000

The internet can be an amazing place to discover our own world. Who would have had a thought 20-30 years ago we would be able to shop, bank, run a business and even find a Saturday night date…let alone thinking this all could be done from a phone. Crazy thought huh? With so much luxury and opportunity at our own ...

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Is it Time to Update/Upgrade Your Website Software?

Robert Holdeman — Fri, 26 Sep 2014 19:40:08 +0000

Software updates and upgrades have become commonplace and are typically no longer to be feared, as they once may have been. Most of us think of updates or upgrades in relation to the software that’s loaded on our pc, laptop, tablet, or smart phone. We may perform the update ourselves or sometimes we wake up to find that an automatic ...

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