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Webroot’s Spy Sweeper® Enterprise 3.0 Named Best Anti-Spyware – 2006
If you don’t regularly sweep for spyware, you should. According to a decent article on Wikipedia, “Spyware is computer software that collects personal information about users without their informed consent. The term, coined in 1995 but not widely used for another five years, is often used interchangeably with adware and malware (software designed to infiltrate…
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15 Ways to Leave Your Computer
The horror stories from Microsoft’s new operating system, Vista, just keep coming in. This one is just weird. Microsoft now gives you 15 — count ’em — 15 different ways to leave your computer. For all you Paul Simon fans, there’s got to be a song in there somewhere. From an article by Joel Spolsky:…
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BeLarc Advisor – Free Personal PC Audit
Have you ever forgotten licensing information for a piece of software, or stumbled when you had to call tech. support for an item on you PC? There is a free utility from BeLarc that builds a detailed profile of your installed software and hardware, missing Microsoft hotfixes, anti-virus status, CIS (Center for Internet Security) benchmarks,…