Sound Bytes

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Sound Bytes is the title of a two hour weekly program that airs on WHAM, a Rochester, NY radio station. As of the initial writing of this article in March 2007, it can be heard Sundays starting at 11AM Eastern time. The focus of the show is computers, computer users, and the computing industry. It is hosted by Nick Francesco, Dave Enright, and Steve Rea. The name is a play on soundbite and byte.

Each of the hosts is a specialist in the computing field. Nick is a Systems Administrator for the E. Philip Saunders College of Business at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Dave runs a computer sales and repair shop [http://www.enrightpc.com./] which concentrates on Intel architecture PCs. Steve works for a computer sales and repair company [http://www.mac-ave.com./] that concentrates on Apple products.

The hosts of the show have come up with a methodology of ridding a computer running Microsoft operating systems of malware called The Sorority Smash Dock. It consists of uploading files from The Innernette and running freeware tools that flag and remove malware. It also makes recommendations of what freely available programs users should be running regularly on their computers to keep them relatively secure.

Having been on the air in some form since Sep 2, 1989, their "claim to fame" is the longest running show about computers.

External links

* http://www.soundbytes.org./ The show's page on the Web.

* http://www.wham1180.com./ The radio station's Web page.

* http://www.securitytango.com./ The Web site of The Security Tango.