Inetum Computing Inc.
PO Box 452 Salmon Arm, BC, Canada

If you look closely at this story, Tim Horton's Point of Sale terminals are running Windows XP. Windows XP support was officially dropped by Microsoft on April 8, 2014. Why is ANY retailer using Windows XP after it is no longer supported? I guess I will only use CASH at Tim Horton's until they upgrade to a secure Point of Sale. I would strongly suggest any consumer use "cash only" if a retailer is using Windows XP to process payments.

I used to recommend Avast Free for home users for antivirus protection. Recently I have found that the free products available (AVG Free, Avast Free, Avira Free, etc) are now so overloaded with advertising, they seriously impair computer performance. Second issue are the free products often lag 24 to 48 hours in their virus protection. Inetum Computing mostly deals with corporate networks and therefore we implement paid, subscription-based antivirus products. However, many of... our corporate clients also have home computers. Since these computers are typically are not used for commercial purposes, free antivirus applications used to be the norm. But given the reasons above, I can no longer recommend any free antivirus products for home or personal use. For most corporate clients, I recommend using ESET security products (https://www.eset.com/ca/home/for-windows/). The ESET product line, based on NOD32, are small, fast Antivirus & Internet Security applications, which seem to have minimal impact on overall computer performance. For most Home or Personal use, I would recommend ESET NOD32. If you want a little bit more protection, you could go with next level up ESET Internet Security. I know both products are drastically reduced this week. You can get 3 years protection with ESET Internet Security for $59 CAD, which works out to $20 a year (Cheap!). I rarely endorse products online, but at that price, I am posting this on Facebook instead of mass emailing clients. Please feel free to email or message me if you need help securing your home computer.

Microsoft Edge Browser - Windows 10 With many people upgrading to Windows 10, or purchasing new computers with Windows 10 pre-installed, I have heard many complaints from clients about Microsoft's new web browser, Edge. Seems the problems with Edge is it's more secure than old Internet Explorer. While security is important, many sites that use Microsoft's ActiveX or Java will fail to work with Microsoft Edge. It is possible to reconfigure Edge to work with ActiveX websites bu...t there is a much easier solution. Internet Explorer still exists in Windows 10 and it will work with your older websites that still use ActiveX. Unfortunately, Microsoft has made finding Internet Explorer in Windows 10 a little tricky. If you click on the Cortana Search field, just to the right of the Start button, and type "Internet Explorer", it will show as a Desktop app. Right-click on this and you can choose "Pin to Taskbar". Now the old familiar Internet Explorer icon will appear somewhere to the right of your Start button. Click on this new icon and Internet Explorer 11 will open. I know, not very exciting but if you have a website that relies on ActiveX, this is one way to get Windows 10 to co-operate. Of course, if you just hate Edge and don't want to make the switch to Chrome or Firefox, use this method to revert back to Internet Explorer 11. I included a couple images to help show the process.