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PODCAST

The Computer Exorcist Podcast

Marc-Anthony Arena

We're increasingly dependent on technology. Our business and personal lives rely on it, but as you've probably noticed, it's unreliable. They promise it'll get better, but it usually gets worse. Our computers are slow, so we end up squinting at smartphones. We live in constant fear that something's going to happen to our personal data. So we're scared into paying for fake protection that proves useless when disaster strikes.The jokers we pay to fix our stuff have no clue what

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134 How to Save the Chromebooks

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2026/03/23

This morning on CEP!Nepalese youth, sick of starving while their rulers flaunted their wealth, used social media to overthrow and rebuild their government.Chromebooks (those cheapie laptops your school district blew millions on) come with an expiration date. Surprise! If you keep using this past the date, you miiiight get viruses, or websites won't work anymore! At that point, they want you to throw them away, but I have found a solution that could save millions of dollars, computers, and

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133 Karl's Articles

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2026/03/09

This morning on CEP! I start going through articles, and then a surprise special guest stops by. We catch up on some articles:Not only are VPNs unnecessary for normal consumers, but they introduce tons of side effectsHundreds of HP printer models feature a critical-severity vulnerability... on top of the sanctioned malice from HP itself.Senior communities add local tech support as one of their perks, and people need itThe third generation of iPhone SE - the perfectly fine $399 alternative to the

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132 The February Scammer Medley Hour!

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2026/02/26

It's time to take a break from articles to have some fun! Most of y'all know the drill by now: We torment phone scammers and expose to you HOW they deceive, so you can WARN YOUR FRIENDS.A Paypal scammer tells me someone used my account to purchase cryptocurrency. He told me to connect to his "secure server", at which point he would jump into my computer and destroy it. They keep hanging up on me so i keep calling them back. At one point I told them i was attorney Denny Crane and had

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36:20

131 Unacceptable Misinformation!

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2026/02/13

Tonight on CEP!I dig up an old piece of fan mail from a guy who labels my book as "Unacceptable Misinformation" (yet hasn't read it)! He urges people to do updates, but is completely unaware of their downsides. I explain (yet again) how an update fixes one thing and breaks a few other things, slows your machine down massively, and can never, ever protect you against The New Threats, such as fear-based Support Scams.What IBM execs called their older employees, and what they love doing

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32:37

130 Fear as a Service

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2026/01/26

Today we go over some evil tech schemes from 2022 and give thanks that most of them fell apart, as all evil things eventually do.Yuval Noah Harari warns the next generation that evil organizations could use biometrics to monitor our minds - for years I've called this the Soviet's greatest dream.In very related news, Microsoft tried to turn kids into QR codes that require daily validation. They dangled fear in front of people in order to gain their trust - something I've termed Fear as a

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129 Eddie Munster and Ross Pierogi

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2026/01/08

Tonight on CEP! It's a New Year's Special Edition TaS Episode!Rather than the usual Foghorn Leghorn, I told all the scammers today I was Eddie Munster. Hilarity ensues, for us.I made the first (Medicare) scammer sigh right off the bat.The next one, a paypal impostor, says i can call him James. So i call him anything but. He tried telling me that "hack-kers from Michigan" took my bitcoins using "micro viruses", and other wild fake tech terms to dazzle me. He said they tried to

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33:27

128 Podcaster Socks

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2025/12/31

Tonight on CEP! It's a year-end roundup of article headlines!WSJ decided to allow Claude AI to run its office vending machine. Chaos ensued. They must not have read the article where Claude's own creators had the same results.Accounting firms buying virtual office buildings in the Metaverse... a place where people grope each other.Robot vacuums receive update attacks that cause them to get drunk and bump into your furniture... while toasters from the 1940s keep working.Is Ninite really the

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127 Warren Buff-It

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2025/12/11

Tonight on CEP! My special guest is Rochester's own Warren Buff-It! No, he's not the Oracle of Omaha, but he details cars for the stars. We discuss:Some of us aren't cut out for corporate, and that's okay!Starting a small business, being free to be who you were meant to be, planting seeds, and leaving a legacy.Chasing dollars versus being your passionPreserving your reputationTons of menus but nobody can figure out the heated seats or radiosSqueezing the balloonCarBravo, GM's

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33:38

126 "I found some beautiful tigers!"

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2025/12/01

Tonight on CEP! Another Torment-a-Scammer Medley!One scammer noticed my number and hung up immediately. Another hung up when she heard Foghorn. I have a feeling they're on to me and have me flagged in the Secret Scammer Database.Apple impostor calls me up and says I have a problem with Apple Pay... It was a CLASSIC support scam where they told me to download "security softwares", which is actually a fully legal remote support tool that allows them to take over a victim's PC. I took

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125 The 10,000 Download Celebration

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2025/11/18

Dr. Mike joins us for the ten thousand download celebration!The industry is realizing what Marc's been saying for years: Storing your passwords in your browser is an excellent way to hand them to bad guys.Microsoft was apparently nostalgic for Y2K: This week's Outlook flaw was a Y2K22 bug that couldn't handle emails dated 2022!MS Word spellchecker now attempts to make your writing more woke. Politics aside, why would we let the most incompetent organization ever dictate how we

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124 Teaching Kids AI, Pt.2

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2025/11/08

The fascinating insightful Kenley C. Vogt returns to finish up our discussion on computer history and why he wrote a book to teach kids the fundamentals of AI usage.How cable companies added up old analog channels to bring you a fast Internet connectionMultiplexing: How fiber optic companies pass multiple signals through the same piece of glassWhy PC salesmen are so arrogant (Like economics, the industry is all man-made and arbitrary!)How these power-hungry AI data centers will eventually

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123 Teaching Kids AI, Pt.1

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2025/10/30

Tonight on CEP! The fascinating insightful Kenley C. Vogt joins us to talk tech ethics, computer history, and his career as a network engineer:How TV repair guys would deliberately fry tubes just to confirm their claim that you needed a new one.How TV salespeople would deliberately lower the focus on a TV, just to sell you a pricier model.How two 1952 IBM computers played checkers against each other... and learned from their mistakes.Self-healing networks, a 1986 AT&T StarLAN running at 1

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122 News Flashes

The Computer Exorcist Podcast ·

2025/10/22

Today we continue our new format of blazin' through articles. For each news flash, I give my insightful commentary:"New World" is a fake online world people use to escape their depressing lives. It's being overrun by AI bots, so people in third-world countries are finding it harder to make a living on it.Tesla is the first foreign automaker in China that didn't have to partner with a local company. In return, China hopes to learn from them, as they did with Apple.Rather than make

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121 "And you deliver the food, right?"

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2025/10/12

Tonight on CEP, we torment more scammers!First one was a "card accident" scammer. i told him my arms fell off, and when he asked for details, i told him I couldn't remember.Next one was a guy claiming to be Geek Squad, then later on claims to be PayPal, then later on Norton.Then we have a Medicare scammer trying to sign me up for food cards. I ask him what kind of food I can buy with the card, tell him all my favorite foods, and then I start ordering food and ask if he'll deliver it

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120 The New Format

The Computer Exorcist Podcast ·

2025/10/01

Today starts Marc's new format of reading headlines of tech articles and summarizing them more quickly so we can breeze through the backlog:We discuss flaws in battery packs that cause EVs to set on fire, and the goal of making designs (and people) that are more tolerant to faultsApple shocks the world by throwing us a bone, allowing us to repair screens on our own iPhones... buy why is it pointless and also what's the ulterior motive?Apple's "mea culpa", offering MacBook Pros

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119 Epic Prescription Scam Call

The Computer Exorcist Podcast ·

2025/09/25

It's another Torment-a-Scammer episode!One Medicare scammer lady calls me claiming to be "Allied Health" but I mis-hear it as "Airline Health". I tell them my doctor is Guido Sarducci, and when they ask for my Medicare card, I read the backs of all the cards I have in my drawer.Next, I call a Support Scammer and claim there are North Korean cookies in my computer. I then ponder what North Korean cookies would taste like. First he claims to be Amazon, then he claims to be

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28:57

118 The 9000 Download Celebration

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2025/09/15

Today we celebrate 9000 downloads! Marc goes over some topics including:What to do if your hard drive dies and you have no backupWhat software to use for podcast interviewsThe spirit of peaceful debate and the message of peaceThe world's first known AI-fueled killing - how AI egged on a paranoid man"Everybody Hertz" - how power plant generators are designed to go offline to protect themselves, but it can cause a chain reaction that spreads to other power plants.How Covid affected church

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117 Drivers License in your PHONE???

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2025/09/04

Tonight on CEP!A Ransomware organization masquerading as a cybersecurity firm!NY State offering a Drivers License app on your Phone??? Really? As if smartphones were reliable???Facebook to drop their facial recognition system... now that they've got what they wanted.A company equating itself with simplicity, then offering "further intricate refinement".iPhones that stay trackable even when they're powered off. Good if you want to find it, but bad if someone wants to find you.FSF

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116 CAN Buses and Irrelevance

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2025/08/25

Tonight on CEP!Marc recounts a harrowing tale and thanks those who saved him from it.Ever wish you could scrub your social media posts without completely deleting your account? There's finally a tool for that, and it's brilliant.There's yet another form of car theft made easy thanks to the wonders of car electronics. We were told that electronic FEEEATURES were a convenience, but really they're a massive security hole. Marc explains how it works in Plain English.We then talk about

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115 Another Convert to the Cause

The Computer Exorcist Podcast ·

2025/08/11

Tonight on CEP! It's another Torment a Scammer episode!I start breaking character and telling scammers to do something better with their lives. One guy told me he has hopes and dreams, so I turned him on to my Become an Exorcist site. Plot twist ensues.A diabetic "PARMAcy" scammer calls me up - I throw her a curveball about my glasses, and she doesn't notice it at all.A loan shark scammer calls me up and tries to lend me $100k - I promise to spend it only on my favorite food...Phone

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