The Weekly Geek

It took a while for me to confirm this, McAfee claims it will reimburse users whose computers had to be serviced due to a faulty update it issued last week that caused people’s computers to act all wacky. We had a few show up at our shop and it took some major surgery to get them [...]

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Well, it’s that time again. What time you ask? The time for more mal-ware, crap-ware, spy-ware, trojans et al.
In the last 3 weeks we have received more calls per day than we receive in a normal month from people who have pop-ups claiming they are infected or who actually clicked on the pop-up and became [...]

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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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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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