My Most Unsuccessful Virus Cleanup *** This event took place in 2002. The customer called me and stated that his son had been playing games online and now the computer is all sorts of messed up, he thinks it is a virus **** I arrived to find the client’s family computer in very rough shape.… Continue reading My Most Unsuccessful Virus Cleanup
Category: Technology
The First Computer Virus
The First Computer Virus The first computer viruses were not what they are today, they were mostly made as practical jokes to play on co-workers or designed to find idle computer processes or to see how far someone could push their coding skills. The first real computer virus in the wild was called “Brain” and… Continue reading The First Computer Virus
My Most Difficult Virus Cleanup
My Most Difficult Virus Cleanup *** This event occurred in 2007, the client called me stating he had a virus. His computer was operating using Windows XP. I’m recalling the events based on my screenshots and notes. *** One of my clients called me and stated that his computer was throwing up ads all over… Continue reading My Most Difficult Virus Cleanup
The Dark Web
The Dark Web This story seems to just keep happening, every so often another Dark Web marketplace is taken down. Police in US, Europe arrest 150 suspects in global dark web sting But what is the Dark Web and what is a marketplace and why are they being taken down? The Dark Web The dark… Continue reading The Dark Web
The Early Days Of The Internet
The Early Days of the Internet The earliest nodes that formed the internet were in the 1960s and were for the time-sharing of computer resources for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and were part of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). This gave birth to ARPANET which were interconnected networks between the Network Measurement… Continue reading The Early Days Of The Internet
Check Your Photos
This is the third post in my Sharing Too Much Online series, this is on Checking Your Photos So many people don’t check the background or foreground of a photo before they post it. I mean there are hundreds of humorous photos online of people who are honestly embarrassed because they didn’t check the photo… Continue reading Check Your Photos
Remove Yourself Online – Part 4
Remove Yourself Online – Part 4 First, there isn’t a way to make yourself completely disappear, as what goes online, stays online. But you can clean up what is online about you to some extent. This will be a multi-part post starting with people searching websites xlek Visit https://www.xlek.com/optout.php Fill out the form (use a… Continue reading Remove Yourself Online – Part 4
Virtual Private Network – VPN
Virtual Private Network – VPN I have done a bunch of research on this topic and of course like any subject, this is just my observations and thoughts on this subject. I’m a self-proclaimed conspiracy theorist so that surely helps to drive my need for privacy, but all that is for another post in the… Continue reading Virtual Private Network – VPN
EXIF Data – Are Your Sharing Too Much?
EXIF Data – Are Your Sharing Too Much? EXIF Data. EXIF stands for ‘Exchangeable Image File Format’ and refers to the basic metadata that is generated and stored by your camera whenever you take a photo. You can’t see it, but it is there It’s called “metadata” – or data about data, for cameras, it is… Continue reading EXIF Data – Are Your Sharing Too Much?
Remove Yourself Online – Social Media
Remove Yourself Online – Social Media Remove Yourself Online – Social Media First, there isn’t a way to make yourself completely disappear, as what goes online, stays online. But you can clean up what is online about you to some extent. This will be a multi-part post, I’m not going to move to Social Media… Continue reading Remove Yourself Online – Social Media
