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Happy Geek Pride Day! Posted: 25 May 2011 07:26 AM PDT   Are you proud to be a geek? Well then celebrate Geek Pride Day today on 25 May and join geeks across the world. Geek Pride Day is an initiative to promote geek culture across the world. Wikipedia has more details about the Geek Pride day and highlights the responsibilities of geeks Be a geek, no matter what. Try to be nerdier than anyone else. If there is a discussion about something geeky, you must give your opinion. To save and protect all geeky material. Do everything you can to show off geeky stuff as a “museum of geekiness.” Don’t be a generalized geek. You must specialize in something. Attend every nerdy movie on opening night and buy every geeky book before anyone else. Wait in line on every opening night. If you can go in costume or at least with a related T-shirt, all the better. Don't waste your time on anything not related to geekdom. Try to take over the world! Take the quick test and find if you are a geek, nerd or dork. Check your geek code and did you know Paris Hilton is a geek too. Are you a geek? Original article: Happy Geek Pride Day! published at Quick Online Tips on 25/05/2011 under Events. Copyright 2011. QuickOnlineTips Network. All Rights Reserved.

Remove Mac Malware: MacDefender, MacProtector, MacSecurity Posted: 24 May 2011 10:52 PM PDT   Apple Mac computers are being actively infected with malware called MacDefender, MacProtector, MacSecurity and users must remove them as soon as possible  as it is part of a phishing attempt to grab your credit card details. Typically the phishing scam targets Mac users by redirecting to fake websites, which tell them that their computer is infected with a virus and offers Mac Defender (or MacProtector, MacSecurity) “anti-virus” software to remove the virus. Apple will release a Mac OS X software update that will automatically find and remove Mac Defender malware and its known variants… but right now you need to protect and clean your Mac. Remove MacDefender, MacProtector, MacSecurity Apple gives detailed steps for removal. If such a malware security software attempts to install or is auto-installed - Quit Safari or any other browser > or Force Quit. Cancel the installation process Never enter your administrator password Delete the installer (Downloads folder > Drag installer to Trash > Empty Trash) To remove the malware Go to Applications > Utilities > Activity Monitor > All Processes > Quit Process – MacDefender, MacSecurity or MacProtector (this step will also help you find if your Mac is already infected) Applications > Drag installer to Trash Open System Preferences > Accounts > Login Items > Remove app Mac computers were very popular due to the fact that common Windows viruses did not affect Macs. But of late more malware are being created targeting Mac computers, so no wonder so many antivirus software are being developed for the Mac OS X. Original article: Remove Mac Malware: MacDefender, MacProtector, MacSecurity published at Quick Online Tips on 25/05/2011 under Apple Computers Security. Copyright 2011. QuickOnlineTips Network. All Rights Reserved.

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