The Weekly Geek

Here is another short list of weekly “to do” items.
Run a full anti-virus, anti-malware, anti-spyware scan(s) – Those bad guys are constantly getting in. For details on programs and more, just search this site under the categories.
Perform a full backup -  You can and will live without those pictures, videos and old tax forms, but [...]

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My father is from Oregon and I lived briefly in the beautiful state of Washington. Rumors and legends of a creature commonly known as Bigfoot exist. Local towns and national media have all used these rumors and at times have created hype about the creature, yet all these years later he, she or it still [...]

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Howdy and welcome to a Christmas edition of The Weekly Geek.
I want to help clear up some misconception that I and my colleagues in the Computer Security field have created. Recently the free program Ad-Aware which had been a great tool for cleaning up spyware, malware and crapware seems to have becomes a cookie cleaning [...]

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Welcome back to another fun and exciting adventure with The Weekly Geek.
Deep in the jungles of your computer case resides the ancient temple of “hard drive” where the sacred and rarely backup treasure of “all my personal data” resides. While the special guards of the “lazy boy recliner” snooze at their post, the sneaky Professor [...]

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Just a quick “blog” to let you all know to watch out for a fake program called AV 2009 that is popping up and appears to be a Windows Security warning. It is a fake and clicking on it installs several pieces of fraud-ware, mal-ware and crap-ware.
This particular program and attempt to get on your [...]

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