The Weekly Geek

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Apparently Insignia photo frames magically caught a virus. Since this appears to be an older virus I have a conspiracy theory that this was intentionally done. Not by Insignia but by someone. Anyway if you purchased a digital photo frame (Specifically the 10.4″ NS-DPF10A) when you connect the USB cable to your computer the virus [...]

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Howdy one and all and a great big welcome back to this weeks fun filled adventure of The Weekly Geek. Back in July I started on how to secure you computer (Basic Security Tips) and I have been working on Intermediate and Advanced tips ever since then, today I wanted to release a quick checklist. [...]

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