Tech News: TalkTalk customers have been sent an email to pre-warn them about an ongoing scam. It has emerged that TalkTalk’s data servers have been hacked and data has been stolen including customer’s details. The scam is a typical telephone scam with fraudsters claiming to be calling from TalkTalk and …
Lenovo Release Superfish Patch
The Superfish app was pre-installed on some of Lenovo’s laptop computers. The app supposedly offered shopping tips but has since been categorized as adware, with multiple security flaws. If you have the Superfish program installed on your computer, it is recommended that you remove this. Lenovo have released a patch to …
New Service – Ticket Printing. Airline, Train, Theatre tickets.
The service is a basic ticket printing service that we often get asked for. 1. Simply book your tickets online on your phone, iPad, laptop, etc. 2. Forward the confirmation email to us. 3. Call into the shop and collect your tickets that we will print out for you. …
Windows 10 Free Upgrade
Computroon Tech News: Windows 10 Free Upgrade Microsoft last week announce more details relating to the license and upgrade terms of the forthcoming Windows 10 operating system. Users running Windows 7 & Windows 8.1 will be able to upgrade to Windows 10 without incurring any upgrade license cost as long as …
Bullguard Price Increase
At Computroon we have sold Bullguard Internet Security at the same price for quite a few years now. We have stuck with the price of £25 for the full 1 year license that covers 3 PCs. Over the past few years as the cost price has risen we have stuck with …
Multi-Buy Of The Week – 8GB PenDrives 3for2
Multi-buy deal of the week in the shop and online. On from 31st jan – 7th Feb. Here’s the link to the details. Different offers will appear every week.
Computroon Website Over The Past 16 Years
Computroon Website Over The Past 16 Years The website for the shop has been upgraded again. Here we take a look back at some previous layouts over the years. When viewing these it reminds me how important it is to keep reinventing the site to keep in-line with current trends …
Computroon Website Upgrade is LIVE!
Since 1999 our website has seen many different transformations. The latest version of our site went live tonight (Monday 27th Jan). So after quite a few late nights (weeks) working on the code and testing the new site on a secure server, I finally decided to publish tonight. There will be …
New Malware Alert – BoBrowser
The BoBrowser piece of Malware has spread quite rapidly over the last few weeks. This is classed as Adware and works by hijacking your internet browser and delivering endless adverts to you. The difference between this and the typical Block & Surf & 24/7 Help types of adware, this seems …
Shop News: New Website Not Far Away
Shop News: Our Blog posts have been fairly quiet over the last few weeks as I have been busy redeveloping the main shopping site for Computroon. A long overdue website refresh is on the way so I have been working on the code for the new site which is almost …