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Welcome to our new homepage!
If you’re a frequent visitor of Geeks to Go, you’ll notice we’ve freshened our homepage! It is powered by WordPress, with a number of plugins, modifications, and skinned to compliment the forums. We’ll likely provide all the details in a future post. We…
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Windows Home Server Beta/CTP Preview
Back in January, I posted a preview of Microsoft’s Windows Home Server, a product that should send shivers of delight down the spine of any home computing enthusiast. Windows Home Server, or WHS, is the product we’ve been waiting for quite a long time, and then…
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Thunderbird 2 release notes
What’s New in Thunderbird 2 * Message Tags: Create your own tags for organizing email. Messages can be assigned any number of tags. Tags can be combined with saved searches and mail views to make it easier to organize email. * Visual Theme: Thunderbird 2’s theme and…
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Web attackers get better at hiding
Increasingly the actual code, often JavaScript, used to attack PCs is hidden in Flash animations or scrambled so that anyone who examines the source of a page can’t easily identify it, said Jose Nazario, a senior software engineer at Arbor Networks, in a presentation at…
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Rootkits becoming increasingly complex
Rootkits–malicious software that operates in a stealth fashion by hiding its files, processes and registry keys–have grown over the past five years from 27 components to 2,400, according to McAfee’s Rootkits Part 2: A Technical Primer (PDF). “The trend…
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MySpace takes on Google News and Digg
MySpace is going into the news business with a service that will scour the internet for news stories and let users vote on which ones receive the most exposure. This approach blends elements of Google News and sites such as Digg and Netscape, which rely on readers to submit…
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Targeted e-mail attacks increasing
During March, MessageLabs intercepted 716 e-mail messages that were part of 249 targeted attacks aimed at 216 of its customers, the Gloucester, England-based provider of hosted e-mail filtering services said in a research report. Of the attacks, almost 200 consisted of a single…
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eBay Acquiring StumbleUpon
High-flying startup StumbleUpon has been rumored to be in acquisition discussions since at least last November. Recently we’ve heard that talks have heated up again, with Google, AOL and eBay as potential suitors. A source with knowledge of the deal now says the company has…
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Windows XP to be retired in 2008
Windows XP will stop being available on new PCs from the end of January 2008. Microsoft is keeping to a plan to stop selling the operating system even though surveys show a lukewarm response to Windows Vista among consumers. A poll by US market research firm Harris Interactive…
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Free Computer System Recovery Tools
Your data’s trapped on a dead computer. You lost your login password. You never wrote down the product key on a non-working Windows installation. Your Mac won’t start. Don’t pay the extortionists at the computer repair shop 800 bucks to get your data back or…