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Featured in this NerdCast we have the RemoteNerd team within Nerds On Site. Chris Polis talks to us about what they are all about. Also joining us is Patrick Browne, Dennis Houseknecht, and David R as the host.

Good News:

• David Redekop - Fantastic NerdFest
• Chris Polis - Great Remote job done last night with the Remote Nerd Team
• Dennis Houseknecht - Glad to be at the NerdFest
• Patrick Browne - Happy to have meetings with the Nerds even that is virtually

News and Discussion:

Patrick Brow1ne

• Microsoft’s New FREE virus scanner in public beta... At least if you are in the right country... In Australia I got this message “This beta is available only to customers in the United States, Israel (English only), People's Republic of China (Simplified Chinese only) and Brazil (Brazilian Portuguese only).”

• Book Review – Free eBook download - The Way Out! - Steer Clear of the Recession and Drive Toward Success and Prosperity. Many great articles in this eBook, I’ll review just BNI’s Dr. Ivan Misner’s - Networking Mixers: Break the Ice, Build Your Contacts, and Grow Your Business.

Dennis Houseknecht - security-related topics for today:-

• We often talk about the risks of social networking sites in terms of Malware infections and phishing attacks, but here is another concern and a reason that EVERY company should have a written policy regarding employees and social networking sites

• There is a new version of the Sophos anti-rootkit. This and rootkit revealer from Winternals and Blacklight from F-Secure are good tools for detecting the really stealthy malware infections.

• Banking goes modern, but will this bring more opportunities to hackers?

• Scareware is BIG BUSINESS

• Finally, a very disturbing article about a “professional thieving” botnet with some interesting advice in the next-to-last paragraph.

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