Geek To Guru

Email and Spam: How Email works and how to reduce your spam intake.MP3 DownloadTopics 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 DownloadTopics 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 DefinedThe Nigerian 419 Scam (AKA Advance Fee Fraud)Browser Plugin: FlashBrowser Plugin: JavaBrowser Plugin: QuicktimeBrowser Plugin: Adobe ReaderLavasoft.com - home of Ad-Aware

What the Internet and the World Wide Web are.MP3 DownloadTopics 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:GoogleAltavistaWebCrawlerLycosYahooWikipediaThe 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.mp3Topics covered:CPU;RAM and ROM;Hard Disks;OS Resource Management and User Interface.Next episode due approx. Feb 11.

Introducing Geek To GuruMP3 download: http://www.archive.org/download/PeteFordGeekToGuruEpisode0/Ep0.mp3Topics covered:Who this podcast is forWhat I'll be covering, in general terms