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Let's Talk Computers® ranks as one of the longest running radio computer talk shows, distributing up-to-the minute computer information since 1989. Produced in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, at present, it is broadcast via radio in 7 states: Tennessee, Alabama, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Texas and New Mexico and on the world wide web via the Internet.
Interviews
October 22, 2011
To find more about "Why Always Connected -- Broadband Connections Need Maximum Protection and What We Can Do To Protect Ourselves and Our Computers," and to read the complete transcript of this interview click here.
August 13, 2011
Randy Abrams, Director of Technical Education with ESET, talks about "Why Keeping your Computer System Safe and Secure is not Just Virus Protection Anymore and why you need a Full-Service Security Program like ESET Smart Security to keep your System Secure.
To find more about "Full Service Security Program - ESET Smart Security," and to read the complete transcript of this interview click here.
June 18, 2011
Randy Abrams, Director of Technical Education with ESET, continues his conversation on how massive data breaches are affecting both businesses and consumers, alike and what we can do to protect ourself from any email scams.
To find more about "How Data Breaches are Affecting All of Us," and to read the complete transcript of this interview click here.
April 23, 2011
Randy Abrams, Director of Technical Education with ESET, talks about the Epsilon Data Breach, which can affect so many of us, whether be businesses or individuals, as well as how it happened and what companies can do to best prevent this from happening in the future.
To find more about "The Epsilon Data Breach," and to read the complete transcript of this interview click here.
March 12, 2011
Randy Abrams, Director of Technical Education with ESET, discusses how to remove malware and of the steps we might have taken to prevent this infection, in the first place.
To find more about "Malware Removal," and to read the complete transcript of this interview click here.
January 29, 2011
Randy Abrams, Director of Technical Education with ESET, talks about "How Business Computer Data Breaches Affect Everyone and how Businesses Could Have Prevented this breach in the First Place."
To find more about "Computer Data Breaches," and to read the complete transcript of this interview click here.
December 18, 2010
Randy Abrams, Director of Technical Education with ESET, talks about "How ESET Can Protect Us Against Holiday Malware Threats," and why we need to have robust, secure protection like ESET Smart Security installed to protect us from all these malware threats.
To find more about "Holiday Malware Prevention," and to read the complete transcript of this interview click here.
November 20, 2010
Randy Abrams, Director of Technical Education with ESET talks about "How does Malware in the Workplace Affect All of Us and so how can ESET Protect Us from Being Infected?" "Malware in the Workplace and How ESET Can Prevent Us From Being Infected"
To find more about "Malware in the Workplace," and to read the complete transcript of this interview click here.
October 9, 2010
Randy Abrams, Director of Technical Education with ESET talks about "Just How Dangerous are Root Kits and How Can ESET Prevent Them From Taking Over Our Computers?"
To find more about "How to Prevent Dangerous Root Kits," and to read the complete transcript of this interview click here.
August 28, 2010
Randy Abrams, Director of Technical Education with ESET talks about why just relying on your ISP to keep you safe from malware attacks may not be the best approach and why you actually need a dedicated security solution like ESET Smart Security to provide you with the Internet protection you require.
To find more about "Can Your ISP Keep You Safe?," and to read the complete transcript of this interview click here.
July 10, 2010
Randy Abrams, Director of Technical Education with ESET, talks about "Why Having a Third-Party Anti-Threat, Anti-Malware solution like ESET is an Absolute "must" to Keep our Computer System Safe, even with Windows 7.
To find more about "ESET – With Windows 7," and to read the complete transcript of this interview click here.
June 5, 2010
Randy Abrams, Director of Technical Education with ESET, talks about "Why BotNets are still on the Rise - Even After Major BotNet Sites have been Shut Down," and how we can be better protect our computer systems from these type of threats.
To find more about "Botnets Still on the Rise," and to read the complete transcript of this interview click here.
May 1, 2010
Randy Abrams, Director of Technical Education with ESET, talks about "Why Heuristics are a Vital Part of Stopping Malware in its Tracks."
To find more about "Heuristics Stops Malware," and to read the complete transcript of this interview click here.
March 27, 2010
Randy Abrams, Director of Technical Education with ESET, talks about "Why You need Anti-Malware Protection - Especially on the Go."
To find more about "Anti-Malware Protection on the Go," and to read the complete transcript of this interview click here.
February 27, 2010
Randy Abrams, Director of Technical Education with ESET, talks about the question we all ask, "Is Malware Smarter Than You Are?"
To find more about "Is Malware Smarter than You?," and to read the complete transcript of this interview click here.
January 16, 2010
Randy Abrams, Director of Technical Education with ESET, talks about "Why Education is the Key to Safe Web Surfing and how we can best Protect ourselves from Internet Threats."
To find more about "Why Education is The Key to Safe Web Surfing," and to read the complete transcript of this interview click here.
December 5, 2009
Randy Abrams, Director of Technical Education with ESET, talks about "Why Even Well-Known Websites Can Become Infected And How Consumers Can Stay Safe While On The Internet."
To find more about "Even Well-Known Websites Can Be Infected," and to read the complete transcript of this interview click here.
October 24, 2009
Randy Abrams, Director of Technical Education with ESET, talks about "Why An Advanced Heuristic Engine Is A Must to Stop Today's Malware Threats".
To find more about "Advanced Heuristic Engine," and to read the complete transcript of this interview click here.
August 29, 2009
Randy Abrams, Director of Technical Education with ESET talks about the importance of "defense in-depth" protection when using any wireless connection to the Internet.
To find more about "Patching and reliable anti-threat security," and to read the complete transcript of this interview click here.
July 25, 2009
Randy Abrams, Director of Technical Education with ESET, continues his interview on "The Unhealthy Attitudes Towards Anti-Threat Protection," discussing why taking the view, "Why Do I Need Anti-Threat Protection - No One Wants to Attack Me?" can be a very costly mistake.
To find more about "Unhealthy attitude pt 2," and to read the complete transcript of this interview click here.
June 6, 2009
Randy Abrams, Director of Technical Education with ESET, talks about the unhealthy attitudes that consumers and businesses alike have toward anti-threat protection and how they can be overcome through education.
To find more about "Unhealthy attitude," and to read the complete transcript of this interview click here.
May 2, 2009
Randy Abrams, Director of Technical Education with ESET talks about How to Prepare For The Next Conficker Worm and other malicious malware threats.
To find more about "How to prepare for the next conficker worm," and to read the complete transcript of this interview click here.
March 7, 2009
Randy Abrams, Director of Technical Education with ESET talks about how to recognize and combat the Conficker worm.
To find more about "How to combat the conficker worm," and to read the complete transcript of this interview click here.
January 24, 2009
Randy Abrams, Director of Technical Education with ESET talks about the "True Cost of Free Anti-Threat Software," and why we must rely on the proven experts in computer security.
To find more about "True cost of free anti-threat software," and to read the complete transcript of this interview click here.
December 6, 2008
Randy Abrams, Director of Technical Education with ESET talks about the importance of "defense in-depth" protection when using any wireless connection to the Internet.
To find more about "Protection with Wireless Connectivity," and to read the complete transcript of this interview click here.
October 18, 2008
Randy Abrams, Director of Technical Education at ESET, talks about the new phishing attacks that are now being received because of the bad economy and how you can best avoid them.
To find more about "Phishing Attacks – Bad Economy," and to read the complete transcript of this interview click here.
September 29, 2008
Randy Abrams, Director of Technical Education at ESET, talks about why relying on a virus or malware solution that reports "false positives" can actually be more destructive than the virus and malware you are trying to prevent.
To find more about "False Positives," and to read the complete transcript of this interview click here.
August 23, 2008
Randy Abrams, Director of Technical Education at ESET, talks about why teaching a College course on How to Write a Virus is Not a good Idea. In fact it is a very BAD idea.
To find more about "Class on – How to Write a Virus – Not a Good Idea," and to read the complete transcript of this interview click here.
July 19, 2008
Randy Abrams, Director of Technical Education at ESET, talks about the misconception that new browsers can keep you safe on the internet and why you still must have a rellable anti-threat solution.
To find more about "Why a Browser Will Not Make You Safe?," and to read the complete transcript of this interview click here.
May 31, 2008
Randy Abrams, Director of Technical Education at ESET, talks about what to do if you get an email from the IRS about your tax stimulus package.
To find more about "What to Do If You Get Email from the IRS?," and to read the complete transcript of this interview click here.
April 19, 2008
Randy Abrams, Director of Technical Education at ESET, talks about why having a reliable firewall is a "must," in order to provide that "first line of defense," to keep your computer safe from Internet threats.
To find more about "First line of defense – a reliable Firewall," and to read the complete transcript of this interview click here.
March 22, 2008
Randy Abrams, Director of Technical Education at ESET, talks about the "Potential Security Risk with Remote Workers," and what businesses can do to minimize that risk.
To find more about "Potential Security Risk with Remote Workers," and to read the complete transcript of this interview click here.
February 16, 2008
Randy Abrams, Director of Technical Education at ESET, talks about the ever-growing threat of identity theft and what we can do to prevent it.
To find more about "Real Cost of Identity Theft," and to read the complete transcript of this interview click here.
January 19, 2008
Randy Abrams, Director of Technical Education at ESET, talks about the newest outbreak of viruses that can seriously impact your computer system, and how the latest family of ESET Products, NOD32 and ESET Smart Security that stops them cold before they can do any damage.
To find more about "Stopping Viruses Cold," and to read the complete transcript of this interview click here.
December 22, 2007
Randy Abrams, Director, Technical Education with ESET, talks about how Version 3 of their award winning NOD32, provides you even more protection against Internet threats.
To find more about "NOD32, version 3.0," and to read the complete transcript of this interview click here.
November 24, 2007
Randy Abrams, Director, Technical Education of ESET, talks about their new ESET Smart Security Software, which gives you maximum protection against all kinds of threats against your computer.
To find more about "Smart Security Software," and to read the complete transcript of this interview click here.
November 3, 2007
Randy Abrams, Director of Technical Education with ESET, talks about the myth that "Viruses are dead." The reality is that once a known virus is trapped, it may still reappear in a new form that will cause additional mischief.
To find more about "Viruses are not Dead," and to read the complete transcript of this interview click here.
September 29, 2007
Randy Abrams, Director of Technical Education at ESET, talks about the damaging effects of cybercrime and how you can most effectively combat it.
To find more about "Cyber Crime - How Can we Combat it?," and to read the complete transcript of this interview click here.
August 25, 2007
Randy Abrams, Director of Technical Education at ESET, talks how unreliable anti-threat testing methods that some companies provide, can often give you a false sense of security.
To find more about "Bogus Anti-Threat Testing," and to read the complete transcript of this interview click here.
July 21, 2007
Randy Abrams, Director of Technical Education at ESET, talks the hidden dangers of opening an Ecard or an Egreeting, as well as the recent wave of Storm worm attacks that have used social engineering via ecards to trick users into running all kinds of malware and what we can do to protect ourselves from these Internet threats.
To find more about "Hidden Dangers of Ecards & Egreetings," and to read the complete transcript of this interview click here.
May 19, 2007
Mike Lowery, Senior Training Manager with ESET talks about the reality of "Suites vs. Best of Breed", when it comes to anti-threat software and how that affects your computer system.
To find more about "Suites vs. Best of Breed," and to read the complete transcript of this interview click here.
March 31, 2007
Randy Abrams, Director of Technical Education from ESET, discusses why, even with your new computer system that has Vista Operating System on it, you still need an additional full protection anti-threat system such as NOD32 to keep your computer safe.
To find more about "NOD32," and to read the complete transcript of this interview click here.
January 27, 2007
Randy Abrams, Director of Technical Education at ESET talks about why you still need the protection of an anti-threat software such as NOD32 when running Microsoft Vista.
To find more about "NOD32," and to read the complete transcript of this interview click here.
November 18, 2006
Andrew Lee, Chief Research Officer from ESET discusses root kits and how they impact our computer system. Andrew states that, "Trojans, viruses and any files that were collected by a key logger can all hide under a rootkit." Now NOD32 even removes active rootkits in the latest release.
To find more about "NOD32," and to read the complete transcript of this interview click here.
September 23, 2006
Scott Brown, Information Security Analyst from Colby-Sawyer College, talks about unique challenges that educators and students face in educational environments and what benefits his campus has realized after switching from a more popular antivirus to ESETs NOD32.
To find more about "NOD32," and to read the complete transcript of this interview click here.
July 29, 2006
Rick Moy, VP of Marketing from ESET talks about the Harris Interactive Survey that concludes that "the majority of U.S. adult computer users are unprotected from malware" and what ESET has done to solve this problem.
To find more about "Harris Interactive Survey," and to read the complete transcript of this interview click here.
June 24, 2006
Randy Abrams, Director of Technical Education at ESET, talks about why, with all the many types of internet threats, it is so important to have an extremely fast scanning engine that also has low resource utilization to keep your computer safe. The NOD32 High Performance-Scanning Engine has proven to be unique is this category.
To find more about "NOD32," and to read the complete transcript of this interview click here.
May 20, 2006
Andrew Lee, ESET CTO, talks about the newest and possibly the most dangerous threat to affect us while we are on the Internet, called "Root kits" and how we can avoid them.
To find more about "Root Kits – A Growing Threat to Your Computer System," and to read the complete transcript of this interview click here.
April 22, 2006
Andrew Lee, ESET LLC CTO, discusses NOD32s proactive approach to preventing the latest phishing attacks, including emails claiming to be from your bank or the IRS.
To find more about "Dont Get Caught up in the Latest IRS Scams," and to read the complete transcript of this interview click here.
March 25, 2006
Andrew Lee, CTO of ESET LLC explains how retrospective tests identify and measure heuristic capabilities of various antivirus products. Proactive detection of malware is essential in todays environment of evolving and accelerating threats - what do these tests measure, and why they are so important.
To find more about "Understanding Proactive Antivirus Tests," and to read the complete transcript of this interview click here.
February 18, 2006
Andrew Lee, CTO of ESET talks about the newest threats to hit the Internet and gives us invaluable tips and techniques, which allow us to safely surf the Internet without fear of malicious threats and identity theft. Andrew says, "Get smart. The biggest weapon that you have against malware is your own knowledge."
To find more about "Virus and Threat Education," and to read the complete transcript of this interview click here.
January 7, 2006
Randy Abrams, Director of Technical Education addresses how to make sure that your company is protected from Viruses, Spyware, Malware, Identity Theft, as well as other Internet pests in the coming year.
To find more about "Business Protection with NOD32," and to read the complete transcript of this interview click here.
December 17, 2005
Andrew Lee, CTO and Richard Marko, NOD32 Chief Developer from ESET discuss their recent presentation they recently gave at AVAR (Association of Anti Virus Asia Researchers) Confierence in China. Listen to the experts discuss "The Secret Life of Malware - What's Really Out There?".
November 12, 2005
Andrew Lee, CTO talks about how you, as a concerned user can do your part to help eliminate virus threats. NOD32's "ThreatSense" (TM) early warning system helps us to achieve this goal, thereby creating "good internet citizens" of us all.
October 22, 2005
CTO Andrew Lee discusses the common misconception - that simply using the Linux operating system in our home or office protects us from the adverse affects of malware, such as viruses, worms and spyware. Learn how you can better defend against these significant threats to both your computer system and to your important data.
September 17, 2005
Andrew Lee, CTO gives us vital information on how to safely donate to the victims of Katrina disaster and to the rebuilding efforts. From the moment Katrina hit, the scammers went into overdrive with new ways to create chaos and scams, rather than help for the victims. Andrew's excellent tips include special sites that give us the necessary information so that we can better inform ourselves as to what results we can expect from our contribution.
September 10, 2005
Andrew Lee, CTO and Randy Abrams, Director of Technical Education, discuss new threats such as the variants of the recent Zotob worms and why it pays to have "0-Day proactive protection" on your system.
August 6, 2005
Andrew Lee, CTO of Eset speaks straight from the 2005 Black Hat Briefings in Las Vegas, about the implications of the changing world of security. Lee said that one theme of the conference is that "No matter how sophisticated the threats are, businesses need to regain control over their own systems." He also discusses how Eset has gotten ahead of the game with their new version of NOD32 for 64-bit systems.
July 2, 2005
CTO Andrew Lee discusses "Day in the life of a Virus Administrator - New Virus Threats". "Timing is everything", says Lee, whether a threat to your network is malware, spyware, a virus or phshing, they are still threats to nod32. Nod32 gives you "0-Day proactive protection" in order to reduce threats so that you can relax and go about your business.
April 9, 2005
ESET is a global security software solution company that provides next generation virus protection. The award-winning anti-virus software system, NOD32 from ESET, provides enterprise customers with the highest return on investment (ROI) in the industry as a result of increased user compliance, decreased downtime, and higher productivity. At times, it seems as if you are in a running battle for control of your computer. CTO Andrew Lee discusses the increasing viciousness and proliferation of virus attacks on your computer.
March 12, 2005
CTO Andrew Lee discusses Eset's new NOD32 Remote Administrator which enables an administrator to manage large installations of NOD32 antivirus system in large corporate networks. The Remote Administrator provides centralized antivirus management with remote installation of NOD32 client antivirus systems enabling a fast antivirus protection rollout, which automatically searches for unprotected computers in your network. With extensive monitoring and reporting tools and multiple remote installation options, the Remote Administrator deploys NOD32 antivirus quickly and reliably, making management much simpler.
October 23, 2004
Eset is a global security software solution company that provides next generation virus protection. Eset's award-winning anti-virus software system, NOD32, assures maximum network performance, advanced heuristic detection, and free worldwide support. NOD32 provides enterprise customers with the highest return on investment (ROI) in the industry as a result of increased user compliance, decreased downtime, and higher productivity. NOD32 holds more Virus Bulletin 100% Awards than any other anti-virus product available, consistently detecting all known viruses "in the wild" without false positives. Senior Security Architect Kirk Parker discusses the rise of viruses and the heuristic anti-virus programs such as Eset's NOD 32 to combat these viruses.
January 10, 2004
Eset is a privately held software development and research company focused on developing innovative anti-virus software systems. Eset's NOD32 anti-virus program has evolved from a commitment in the development process to be consistently rated as one of the best anti-virus products. In fact, NOD32 holds more Virus Bulletin 100% Awards than any other product available and is the only product not have missed any In the Wild virus for more than 5 years. CEO and President Anton Zajac gives an overview of viruses over the past year and discusses their heuristic technology that recognizes and neutralizes most new viruses before the bulletins are even released for them.
February 23, 2002
Established in 1999, ESET is a software and consulting company focusing in the area of computer security with special emphasis on anti-virus protection, prevention and education. Key to their product line is the NOD32 antivirus program available for multiple platforms. Larry McJannet and Dr. Anton Zajac discuss this award winning with unprecedented detection efficiency and the highest hard disk scanning rates.
