Geek To Guru: Recent Episodes
Pete Ford
Email and Spam: How Email works and how to reduce your spam intake.
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Topics covered:
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How Email gets from A to B;
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How spammers use weaknesses in the Email protocols to send email without revealing their identity;
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The damage spam can do;
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Reducing the amount of spam you receive.
Malware: Viruses, Trojans and other very bad things, and how to protect yourself and your computer. New and Improved Sound Quality! Enriched with Vitamin B12!
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Topics covered:
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What Malware is;
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How Malware gets into your computer - email attachments, fake browser plugins and bad toolbars;
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Preventing Malware intrusions - antivirus programs and precautions you can take;
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Email scams (starring the famous Nigerian 419 scam);
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Cookies.
External Links:
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Malware Defined
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The Nigerian 419 Scam (AKA Advance Fee Fraud)
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Browser Plugin: Flash
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Browser Plugin: Java
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Browser Plugin: Quicktime
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Browser Plugin: Adobe Reader
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Lavasoft.com - home of Ad-Aware
What the Internet and the World Wide Web are.
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Topics covered:
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The Internet as a collection of machines;
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The Internet as Servers and Clients;
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The World Wide Web;
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For New Users: where to begin.
External Links:
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Google
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Altavista
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WebCrawler
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Lycos
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Yahoo
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Wikipedia
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The Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
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WebMD
A high-level overview of the major parts of a computer and the basic functions of Operating Systems.
Apologies for the appalling sound quality. I'm working on it and hope to have this fixed before posting Episode 2.
MP3: http://www.archive.org/download/PeteFordGeekToGuruEpisode1/Ep1.mp3
Topics covered:
* CPU;
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RAM and ROM;
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Hard Disks;
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OS Resource Management and User Interface.
Next episode due approx. Feb 11.
Introducing Geek To Guru
MP3 download: http://www.archive.org/download/PeteFordGeekToGuruEpisode0/Ep0.mp3
Topics covered:
- Who this podcast is for
- What I'll be covering, in general terms