Our Chicago IT Managed Services team received a call late last night from a CPA working late (it's tax season).  The new malware infection was called "Smart Fortress 2012."  When the computer first boots up, the Internet works, but shortly thereafter, the Internet on the infected computer disables itself, and you are not allowed to open any tasks on the computer that are executables (exe files).

Although it doesn't happen too often, sometimes your iPhone/iPad can get sluggish.  Perhaps it's due to the new multitasking capabilities.  Our Managed Services clients have asked some of our Chicago IT Consultants to help.

Here is what you can do to free up some memory if your Apple device gets slow.

Apple users with the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S may have experienced an issue after upgrading to iOS 5.0.1.  User contacts are no longer linking up with the phone numbers!  Most of the users affected were on Verizon Wireless.