May 2020 - Green Mouse

Scam Posing as Covid-19 Report

27 May 2020 Gina Whytein: Online Safety, Public Notices

Microsoft has released a warning about a new scam playing on the huge public interest in the Covid-19 pandemic. The emails purport to contain a Covid-19 report from the World Health Organisation, and have Excel links to what they claim are statistics but are really a backdoor to opening NetSupport Manager, which is a remote [...]

Is Your Business Lockdown Ready?

19 May 2020 Gina Whytein: Services

It certainly seems like New Zealand is on track to beat Covid-19. I think we're all, rightly, patting ourselves on the back for the work and restraint that our 'team of 5 million' have put in. It would have become very clear during lock-down that some businesses were well prepared to deal with the sudden [...]

Thank You Discount

13 May 2020 Gina Whytein: Services, Specials

Here at Green Mouse we'd like to give a big shout out to the Cambridge Community who have stuck with us through lock down. Our wonderful clients have continued to call on us for computing issues and they've paid their bills for previous work even though money will have been tighter than usual for most [...]

Totally Locally – Cambridge Directory

12 May 2020 Gina Whytein: Public Notices

The Cambridge Chamber of Commerce has built an excellent online business directory for Cambridge to encourage us all to support local businesses. Check it out here. These businesses are those which are 'offering virtual services' during Alert Levels 3 and 2. The idea is to help kick-start the local economic recovery and maintain our precious small [...]

Alert Level 2

12 May 2020 Gina Whytein: Public Notices, Services

I think we were all fairly relieved yesterday to hear that the move to Alert Level 2 has been approved and scheduled by the Government. For anyone who missed that, the plan is that we will officially move to Level 2 at midnight on Wednesday, so from Thursday we can go out in public, go [...]

Video Conferencing: Zoom vs Teams

06 May 2020 Gina Whytein: New Technology, Online Safety

Hands up of you've used a video conferencing application during lockdown. I think many of us will have tried this out recently, whether it's been for work meetings or catching up with family and friends. So which video conferencing app is best? A lot of people have been using Zoom, but if you already have Microsoft [...]