The Older Geek

Everybody wants a piece of the pie, I always say– your pie! Whenever you download a new music player, for example, that new music player may (and often does) take over ALL media files associations on your computer. For example, perhaps all your media files (mp3, wav, etc) had once played in Windows Media Player [...]

You may have heard rumors circulating that the United States FBI will shut down the Internet on March 8, 2012. Is this true or false? Well, both. It depends. If your computer is infected with the trojan program DNSChanger, then you will experience an Internet “shut down.” If your computer is clean, you will not [...]

Just recently, two pals of mine had their blogs hacked. Apparently, the hackers gained access through the website themes. The themes were either coded poorly or contained loopholes though which hackers could gain access. It’s a very vulnerable feeling to have your blog hacked. All your precious posts and comments can be wiped out in [...]