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Worms: Prevented, not fried thank you.

January 19th, 2007 · Comments Off

Welcome back to all our readers. In this weeks exciting and fun-filled edition of The Weekly Geek we are going to continue on our quest to find out more about the malicious side of the internet and how to protect your computer. This week we are going to delve into “worms”. No, not night crawlers, [...]

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Tags: Internet · Malware · Security · Trojans · Virus · Worms

Choosing an Anti-Virus program

January 14th, 2005 · 1 Comment

Howdy and welcome to one and all to The Weekly Geek! In this fun filled edition, I want to cover a question that I frequently receive. “How do you choose which security products to use and recommend?” Well the answer is not simple. In this edition we will go over how I pick, choose and [...]

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Tags: Malware · Security · Software · Trojans · Virus

Microsoft Outlook Security

August 23rd, 2004 · Comments Off

Howdy one and all and welcome back to this weeks fun filled and exciting edition of The Weekly Geek. In this week’s low carb, low sugar and high energy article we are going to go over a few ways to secure Microsoft Outlook. In the last article we went over Outlook Express and its helpful [...]

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Tags: E-Mail Issues · Internet · Security · Software · Virus · Worms

Outlook Express Security

August 9th, 2004 · Comments Off

Setting Security settings in Outlook Express to Restricted and disabling Scripting services will do a lot to protect e-mail. To do this you will need to open Outlook Express (referred to as OE from here on) Go to the Menu bar across the top of the OE window and click on Tools Then click on [...]

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Tags: E-Mail Issues · Malware · Security · Virus

Outlook Express Preview Pane

May 25th, 2004 · Comments Off

Welcome back to another exciting and fun filled edition of The Weekly Geek! Over the next few weeks we are going to go over the basics of securing Microsoft Outlook Express to help reduce the chance of catching a virus, worm or other nasty thing. In all versions of Outlook Express (OE) comes with the [...]

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Tags: E-Mail Issues · Security · Trojans · Virus · Worms