[Steamhead]

>.> <.< ... Guess I'm next!

Username: Steamhead
Real Name: Michael ... or Mad Mike ... whichever you prefer
Status: Visiting Consultant
Profession: High School Student ...
Location: Alabama
Age: 15
Interests: Computers! , Soccer Basketball Football etc.


I've been active here since about Aug. 2005 .. that's when Excal helped me clear out this nasty little thing I had, and I've been hooked ever since! I join Geek-U because I wanted to learn about this as much as I can, and all I can say is that I've still gots a long way to go !!

[MasterJ]

Username: MasterJ
Real name: Jeff
Age: 18
Status: Visiting Consultant
Profession: Student
Education: Senior in High School (Can't wait to graduate)
Interests: (Not in order mind you ) Malware removal, Church, Friends, Family, Can't wait for college next year, Learning as much as I can (malware and otherwise).
How I found G2G: Got infected with winfixer/vundo in August. Found GeeksToGo through google. After I got clean, I decided I wanted to help out. Now here I am.

If you want to chat sometime, shoot me a PM.

MasterJ

[andydf]

Figured it's about time I added myself to this thread

Username: andydf
Real name: you'll never guess
Age: 37
Status: Visiting Consultant
Profession: former steel fabricator turned draughtsman using tekla structures software.
Interests: Beer, Malware removal, wife, kids and more beer,
Location: Northampton UK

Andy

[Matt.F]

Username: Matt.F
Real name: Matt (go figure, eh)
Age: 21
Status: Visiting Consultant
Profession: Full-time student, but I work as an After Care Staff member at a local school (3rd & 4th graders mostl)
Education: Currently a Junior English-major with a Literature concentration
Interests: Computer, school, TV, my girlfriend Kristin, etc.
Location: Memphis, TN
How I found G2G: Saw it mentioned in another forum (non-tech), and checked it out. Decided I wanted to learn how to remove malware so I joined up with GeekU!

[computerwiz12890]

Username: computerwiz12890
Real name: Jeremy
Age: 18
Status: Trusted Tech
Profession: Full-time student, but I am self-employed. I fix computers, of course. From the day I started 1 year ago till today, I've had 57 customers.
Education: Graduated from High School. Moving on to Tech College.
Interests: Computers, Video Games, Robots, Sci-fi, Collectables (coins, cards, etc.), photography, animals, religion, programming, and did I mention computers?
Location: New Iberia, LA
How I found G2G: I was working on a computer that had the dreaded Winfixer. I could not solve it, no matter what I did. I did some research, and found GeeksToGo. It was love at first sight.

[sari]

I guess it's time for me to post here now

Username: Umm, it's over there at the left
Real Name: See above
Age: According to therock247uk, today is my 27th birthday, so I'll go with that
Status: For some reason, they thought I was capable, so I'm an admin and GeekU teacher
Profession: I am a domestic goddess. I also have a part-time job as the IT department for my husband's company, which means I'm server admin/desktop support/webmaster/hardware tech and anything else you could think of. It's a small company, which is why I can get away with working part-time.
Education: Master's Degree in Telecommunications Management
Interests: Well, computers, obviously. I also play bad golf, and spend much time transporting and watching my 2 daughters at their various activities (well, not always an interest, but certainly takes up much of my time!). I also really like music, especially listening to new bands, and my husband and I go to a lot of concerts. I love to cook, as well. I have a dachshund named Penny who is more demanding of my time than my daughters.
Location: Maryland
How I found G2G: I already belonged to several other forums, but a lot of my online friends had made Geeks to Go their home, so I settled in here as well. I'm an admin and/or helper at several other forums.

[SRX660]

OK, I'm SRX660.

How did i pick my name? It comes from my custom Yamaha motorcycle. A single cylinder sportbike made for just a few years.

Age: i'm going to be 58 this year

Occupation: I work in the Utilities dept of a city near Saint Petersburg, Fla. I have ended up being their computer tech for the Scada system that runs the waste water system and another scada system that runs the water system. I also seem to have the most experience at running water and wastewater systems with 18 years of operations. I also started a very small computer shop that specializes in hard to find new parts.
Status: a Trusted Tech
Hobbies: Older 70's Motorcycles, custom 3 wheeler motorcycles like the roth rubber ducky trike. Love doing home remodeling with a great interest in computer integration into the home.
Computer education: absolutely none, i am completely self taught by buying a bunch of old computers at a auction and trying every possible combination to make them work. This was getting so expensive i finally had to open a shop and start charging others for my experments. So far i'm barely breaking even but some people are liking my experments in desktop suitcase computers, and computers integrated into the house.

Like some others here i was roaming all over the net looking for more information and input on computers and i found this place. While there are a few other forums similar to this one, i was struck by the personality of this forum. So i figured that if i kept coming back here they would either have to ban me or invite me in. Guess i got lucky, EH!

I'm still learning and hope to never stop.

[silencedmessage]

Username: SilencedMessage
Real name: Leo
Age: 17
Status: Trusted Helper (malware)
Profession: Cook
Education: Graduating from High-School
Interests: Computers, Cooking, Music.. anything to do with music
Location: Greater Boston Area, MA, USA
How I found G2G: I was infected with a few things, and got great help. I searched around and found out about GeekU, then decided to join up.

[thenotch]

Username: thenotch
Real name: Nick
Age: 40
Status: Trusted Tech Staff
Profession: System Admin/IT Coordinator

Interests: US Civil War History, Playing Guitar, Bible Study, Web Design/Development
About Me: I am married, have two kids (12 and 5 with one on the way), US Army veteran (1985-1996), VFW Member, and Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War member. I play guitar in a local Christian blues/rock band as well as at my church, Mid-Rivers Baptist and have been playing guitar since I was 16.
Location: St Charles, MO (St Louis suburb)
How I found G2G: I seriously do not remember...
Computer education: I was a Computerized Tactical Satellite operator in the Army in 1985 when the computer as on the back of a deuce and a half. We had a IBM XT in the command center (it had two 5 1/4" floppies drives, 64KB of memory and a green monochrome monitor) and I got real interested in it and started learning as much as I could. I eventually took some computer classes from Central Texas College. The rest of my knowledge is self learned over the years and while I was at my last job for the Army I got A+, Network+ and LPIC-1 certified.

[logreeval]

Username: logreeval
Real name: Logan
Status: Visiting Consultant
Profession: Student
Education: 9th Grade
Other Forums: registered at 247fixes, BestTechie, Spyware Terminator, http://logreeval.bb2.org/
Interests: Computers , Bowling, Basketball, Watching Family Guy
How I found G2G:Searching around for Anti-Spyware/Virus help.

[jurgenv]

Username: jurgenv
Real name: Jürgen
Age: 17
Location: Belgium
Status: Visiting Consultant
Profession: Full-time Student

Other Forums: registered at BestTechie, Trusted Advisor @ Spyware info, Slyware Senior @ TomCoyote, HJT Team @ Bleepingcomputer, security helper @ Bluemedicine, Qualified helper @ Nucia (formely ASO), 1st responder @ Castelcops, malware research,...
Interests: Computers; soccer, music
How I found G2G: I saw this site on google.

I started this at me 15th age and still killing scum.

[BMThor]

Username: BMThor
Real name: Alex
Age: 45
Location: Belgium
Status: Visiting Consultant
Profession: IT Manager
Education: Paramedic/ICT Management/PC Tech
Other Forums: registered at SpywareInfo, TomCoyote, BleepingComputer, CastleCops, Malware Research, Malware Removal, Security Cadets, Bluemedicine.be, Nucia.nl, Hijackthis.nl, OnlinHelpDesk.be, ...
Interests: Computers, fishing.
How I found G2G: While looking for special fixes.

[Technical_1]

Username: Technical_1
Real name: Scott
Age: 36
Location: North Carolina, USA
Status: Visiting Consultant
Profession: Consumer Video Equipment Repair Engineer (TV Repairman)
Education: Associates Degree in Applied Sciences
Other Forums: ThatComputerGuy (Home Forum), CastleCops, Bleeping Computer, D-A-L.
Interests: Computers, Pretty much anything Outdoors, WoodWorking
How I found G2G: I was training at another site and was introduced to GeekU by Trevuren.

[1101doc]

Username: 1101doc

Real Name: DocCrain

Status: Trusted Tech

Profession: Retired Doctor of Chiropractic (Tour Guide in the sumer: http://www.mackinaci...dhikebike.com/)

Location: SATX winter, Mackinac Island MI summer

Age: 60

Education: BA. MDiv. DC.

Interests: Computers, Digital Photography, Chess, Bicycling, Hiking, Reading (fiction mostly-some history), Poetry, Spiritual Adventures

I just celebrated my one year anniversary with my first computer, a Dell Lattitude C600 laptop. It was given to me as a gift by friends. I had about three months with my computer before I ever got online, so I explored it. Extensively. Got into trouble. Got out. Learned. Learned so much more once I got online. Played. Tweaked. OverTweaked. Tweaked out. Got myself in bigger trouble. Got out. Learned. Mostly the hard way, which is good. I will never make some of those mistakes again. Now, if I can help others avoid some of the pain, I am glad to do so. I also participate at Annoyances, 5 Star, and Tech Support Guy, with occaisional postings at many others where I am registered. I am 1101doc everywhere but Annoyances, where I am DocCrain. You will often see me refer to http://doc1101.vox.com/ where I have posted the essentials of what I have learned so far.

How I found G2G: Sorry, don't remember. Osmosis?

[Jayzeee]

Username: Jayzeee

Real name: James

Status: Trusted helper, Malware Staff

Profession: Technical Operator for television studios

Other Forums: Registered at several, but only really active here.

Location: West Midlands, UK

Age: 27

Interests: Music, I play drums in a Rock/Funk band. I also like to play football from time to time.

How I found G2G: Like many others, looking for help. I was highly impressed with the help I recieved and decided to to join GeekU so I could help others.