Mwest

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Name: Miles West
Date registered: March 1, 2011
URL: http://www.ageektogo.net

Latest posts

  1. 9 Major Ways Criminals Use Facebook — May 17, 2012
  2. Lambast Comcast… No Internet! — April 23, 2012
  3. New Year, New Entity Designation (A Quickie Notice) — April 19, 2012
  4. Online Pedophiles Use New Trick to Hide Child Porn — March 29, 2012
  5. Managing Myrtle Beach Golf Packages — February 29, 2012

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May 17

9 Major Ways Criminals Use Facebook

1. Hacking Accounts Once hacked, an account can be commandeered and used as a platform to deliver spam, or — more commonly — sold. Clandestine hacker forums are crawling with ads offering Facebook account IDs and passwords in exchange for money. In the cyber world, information is a valuable thing. 2. Commandeering Accounts A more direct form …

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Apr 23

Lambast Comcast… No Internet!

Internet down. Place call to Comcast. National call center says their program for scheduling techs is ALSO down. Thank technology for wireless tethering!

Apr 19

New Year, New Entity Designation (A Quickie Notice)

As of today A Geek To Go! L.L.C. is now A Geek To Go! Inc. We will always continue to serve our loyal customers, contractors and subcontractors as before, but the branding has changed slightly. Since our inception in 2006, every year we have proven our company standards as a major increase past the following …

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Mar 29

Online Pedophiles Use New Trick to Hide Child Porn

Pedophiles bent on hosting and spreading images of child pornography on the Web are using a new trick to make their offensive websites appear legitimate, depending on how they’re accessed. The online criminals are able to rig their sites, which host images and videos of child sexual abuse, to load “legal adult content” when the …

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Feb 29

Managing Myrtle Beach Golf Packages

Wednesday morning we received an urgent call on the Geek To Go! hotline from Kay Harris, President of Myrtle Beach Golf Packages. It was the third and last call Ms. Harris would make, inquiring about mystery messages popping up on her computer. As a courtesy we logged into her computer and explained to her that …

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Feb 16

Wrapped Up in Security with Sevya

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Joan Rasch, owner of Sevya in Charleston, SC has grown exponentially since its inception eight years ago. Fair Trade suppliers of 100% silk scarves from India, Sevya called on A Geek To Go! to troubleshoot infections on one of their main computers, in this case, a Windows PC running Vista. A Geek To Go! was …

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Jan 17

Nuevo Business in Costa?

Had the good fortune to meet Christian & Magdalene of CR-IT, the first internet / repair shop in Uvita, Costa Rica & the team has the monopoly on the area. They are very interested in partnering with A Geek To Go! for our Managed Services Program to bring online security remote management for this area. …

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Dec 14

Banking Trojan Poses as Microsoft Anti-Malware Tool

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  A new and nasty banking Trojan is wreaking havoc on Windows systems by removing built-in security software and clearing a path for crooks to silently steal victims’ banking credentials. The Trojan affects “ntldr,” the default boot loader on Windows machines, explained Kaspersky Lab expert Fabio Assolini. Identified as Trojan-Downloader.Win32.VB.aoff, the Trojan originated in Brazil, …

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Dec 08

New December Internet Scams Use Phony Adobe Updates and Amazon Gift Cards to Lure Victims

If you received an email that appeared to be from Amazon and contained a holiday gift card someone had sent you, what would you do? There’s a very real possibility you’d take the bait and open the “gift,” which is the driving force behind a phishing campaign spotted by researchers at the security firm AppRiver. …

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Nov 08

I.T. Phone Home! New exploits Using Old hardware…

By Ed Bott | November 4, 2011, 4:47am PDT ZD.net Summary: Online con artists are targeting PC users worldwide in a brazen scam. It starts with a phone call from a “tech support specialist” who warns that your computer is infected with a virus. To fix things, all you have to do is give the …

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