Category Archive for ‘Desktop Tips’

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What You Need to Know About Ransomware

If you have never heard of or experienced ransomware? If not, you can consider yourself very lucky. In this age of growing cyber crimes and online terrorism are on the rise. It is important that everyone know what ransomware is and how to fight it. Our nation’s critical infrastructure, including… read more →

Choose which IMAP account folders to appear in Outlook

ProTip: It is best practice to regularly check your junk email folders to ensure no safe emails have been improperly labeled as junk. It is best to check this folder once a day and delete the contents of the folder weekly or bi-weekly. When using an IMAP email account, an… read more →

Understanding Phishing

Report Phishing or Spoof email If you receive a suspicious email FORWARD it to support@globalit.com. Our security experts will be able to look at the email to determine if it is a fake. There are some hints about identifying scam email below but it is often very difficult to tell for… read more →

Global IT Webmail – User Access Instructions

1. First, open your favorite internet browser for this write up I will be using Fire Fox 2. Navigate to this page, https://globalit.com/web-mail and enter the e-mail address provided to you by the Global IT support team 3. Now you will see a page with a log in box like… read more →

Protecting Against Common Computer Threats

There are two types of common threats most non technical staff will encounter. “Phishing” for information “Viruses” never friendly What to do Phishing Develop a healthy skepticism when reading any email that asks for sensitive information and take a couple of simple steps to protect you. Familiar alarmist messages from… read more →

Windows Keyboard Shortcuts

Windows System Key Combinations Have you ever wondered how you could save time doing tasks on your computer? Keyboard shortcuts are a good way to save time and work more efficiently. The shortcuts below are provided by Global IT’s Internet support team. We hope you find them helpful. F1: Help… read more →

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