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“Spybot Search and Destroy” is our favorite free program for ferreting out and removing spyware from your computer, and it just came out in a new version. Scans are much faster and the spies lurking in your machine are removed automatically, instead of having to be selected for removal individually. Spybot works with all Windows versions from Windows 95 on up to Vista. It also works with some versions of Linux.

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Every once in a while a Windows system will lock up, showing nothing but a blank blue screen and a small message box. This has come to be called “The Blue Screen of Death.” What causes it? Who knows? What can be done about it? Who knows? You can always reboot.

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We recently came across a web site named FaultWire.com, which attempts to explain what happened…

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