Windows Defender

Show 098 - Mac Users have enough problems already.mp3

Our hosts try to keep the anti-mac sentiment at bay. Shaun joins us, and we talk a little bit about Malware and how to prevent it.

Show 098 - Mac Users have enough problems already
Wednesday April 14th, 2010

I am your host Bryan I'm cooking meat lots of meat Hineser
With me tonight is Mike leaky spigot Scott
And Shawn I'm no distinguished gentleman Smith-Ford


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In our Segmentish type thing we'll be talking about some Malware removal tips.

What's Going on?
Bryan -
- Get a new battery
- Cooking Art's meat
- Working over time
- Did my duty as an American

Mike S -
- I just realized I never published Show 097!
- Brewed a Bavarian HefeWeizen today
- Had my keg fixed
- Inherited a lot of Cub Scout stuff, including a Pinewood Derby Track

Shawn- proving that applied physics can destroy paper in yet another way


Computer History
- April 14, 1995 - Chinese Government Works to Purge Its Agencies of Illegal Software
- April 15, 1977 - First West Coast Computer Faire Begins
- April 16, 1959 - "LISP" Language Unveiled
- April 18, 1986 - IBM First to Use Megabit Chip

The computer history segment is brought to you by The Computer history Museum, where computing history lives. Visit them at  computerhistory.org .

Fake Commercial
Old Rebellion Ale - Thanks to Sci Fi Surplus!

New and Interesting
Everyone misses Mike T
7,500 shoppers unknowingly sold their souls -
Bryan & Shawn
Why Responsible Vulnerability Disclosure Is Painful and Inefficient - Bryan
Astronauts remove ammonia tank on space station - Bryan
Carnivorous Robots Eat Meat For Power -Shawn
EATR Robot NOT Designed To Eat Dead Bodies, Or, How A Company Backpedals -Shawn

Podcast or Podcast Novel Promo

Electricity - Podiobooks - Author's Website
Dead Hunt - Podiobooks - Author's Website - Kenn on Twitter

The Segmentish Type Thing

Malware Removal Tips

Show 036: Uh.......Starcraft?

I'm Mike, and I'm Art, and your listening to the Two Guys Tech Podcast. Each week we talk about various geek and tech topics.

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What's been going on?
From the site:
- Wallpaper Post about StarCraft brings up that Starcraft 2 is going to be released in 2009, in 3 installments. You won't need all 3 to play all 3 races.
- Get your Windows Defender Updates manually, it helps fix errors like "The Program can't download definition updates. Error Found 0x80240022"
- Free Holiday Music from Amazon
- Mention the noise.
Steve Martin Christmas - 5 Christmas Wishes
Art likes Walking around in women's underwear. Carol of the Bartendender's

Computer History
- December 17th, 1920 - APL Co-Inventor Iverson is Born
- December 20th, 1943 - Norman Bel Geddes to Design ASSC Machine Cover
- Decemerb 21st, 1968 - Integrated Circuits Used in Moonshot
- December 23rd, 1947 - Bardeen and Brattain Demontrate the transistor to the Bell Labs Brass

News
- Spam Volume is back to 63% of it's volume - ComputerWorld
- Yes, Mike forgot again. Patch Tuesday was the 9th. Microsoft issues biggest patch cycle in 5 years. ComputerWorld.
- Pownce is unplugged on the 15th.
- The site "I Want Sandy" gets turned off on the 19th, along with stikkit. Both sites / services were part of Values of n, which is closing their doors. The intellectual property behind both services was purchased by Twitter.
- Dell tripling it's charges for "downgrading" from Vista to XP Pro. - PCWorld

Darik's Booot and nuke - DBAN
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Mike's been playing with Play On. Art thinks Mike should look at XBMC.

Christmas Special Links
Track Santa on Christmas Eve with Norad and Google Maps - Here's some more links on Mike's Blog, and how it all started.
Free holiday music from Two Guys Tech.

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How to Manually Download Updated Definitions for Windows Defender

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I ran into an issue where Windows Defender couldn't download updates, when I would try, I would receive the error:

"The Program can't download definition updates. Error Found 0x80240022"

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