Geek To Guru Pete Ford

Email and Spam: How Email works and how to reduce your spam intake. MP3 Download Topics covered: How Email gets from A to B; How spammers use weaknesses in the Email protocols to send email without revealing their identity; The damage spam can do; 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! MP3 Download Topics covered: What Malware is; How Malware gets into your computer - email attachments, fake browser plugins and bad toolbars; Preventing Malware intrusions - antivirus programs and precautions you can take; Email scams (starring the famous Nigerian 419 scam); Cookies. External Links: Malware Defined The Nigerian 419 Scam (AKA Advance Fee Fraud) Browser Plugin: Flash Browser Plugin: Java Browser Plugin: Quicktime Browser Plugin: Adobe Reader Lavasoft.com - home of Ad-Aware

What the Internet and the World Wide Web are. MP3 Download Topics covered: The Internet as a collection of machines; The Internet as Servers and Clients; The World Wide Web; For New Users: where to begin. External Links: Google Altavista WebCrawler Lycos Yahoo Wikipedia The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) 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; RAM and ROM; Hard Disks; 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 forWhat I'll be covering, in general terms