Green Mouse

10/11/2025

Have you received two emails from Microsoft recently? Here's what they're all about...

Two emails from Microsoft about Personal and Family licensing

04/02/2025

Hey everyone, just to let you know - Green Mouse will be closed for Waitangi Day (obviously), but we will also be closed on Friday the 7th of Feb. We'll be open again on Monday the 10th.
Please call or email us to book a job and feel free to park in our driveway when you come in - parking is pretty tight on Dick Street these days.
07 827 7991 [email protected]

02/12/2024

Did you know that Green Mouse can access refurbished laptops? They're worth about half the price of new laptops and they're a great option for work or school. Here's a nice 14" model that would make a great Christmas gift...

We have a lovely little refurbished laptop available. Suitable for a work or school laptop

25/11/2024

People have been receiving ads and spam in the Notification Centre which seems much more legitimate than random emails and have thus been causing some concern. Don't worry, this can be turned off...

Microsoft ads are starting to pop up in the notification centre - here's how to turn them off

29/08/2024

WhatsApp Scam

Right - I've now had three people asking about this so I'm writing a post about it. WhatsApp Users - have you received a whole lot of messages from a Blockchain Group?
This is a scam. Somehow this Group has joined up a whole lot of unsuspecting WhatsApp users and has started bombarding them with messages. The other 'members' of this group are bots, not real people, certainly not people making $1000 a day on cryptocurrency. I imagine they hope to convince people to buy fake crypto - take their money and not provide any real crypto currency at all.
You can leave this group by going to Communities, selecting the group, then scrolling right to the bottom to leave. What I've also done is clicked on the main group member (a bot called Samantha) and blocked her.

27/08/2024

Here's another classic 'Microsoft' phishing email looking to steal your user login credentials and ultimately your money.

A Phishing scam claiming to come from Microsoft

05/08/2024

A reminder to check your computer's Bitlocker status again. It takes half a minute to ensure you're not locked out of retrieving your own data.

What Bitlocker does and why you should turn it off

31/07/2024

The Xero accounting package website is down - for anyone wondering why Xero is not working. You can check their status page if you like: https://status.xero.com/
Apparently they're working on it.

Welcome to Xero's home for real-time and historical data on system performance.

24/07/2024

Last Friday the world suffered the largest ever IT outage in the CrowdStrike incident. Scammers are already trying to exploit the uncertainty around this event. Here are the details.

A desciption of the CrowdStrike Outage and a scam warning

15/07/2024

Recently we've had some clients who want to change to a new email address. This can be a bit of a mission so I've written a guide for those brave enough to take this on:

How to change to a new email address