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This is a test

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

Just testing out adding a chat room. So does it work???

Create a Meebo Chat Room

My Brush With Spyware

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

“The ancestor of every action is a thought.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

Last week, my computer came to a complete standstill. It was brutal. I watched as the life was slowly sucked out of it with no explanation whatsoever. Then little by little, within a few hours I couldn’t even open a single program. It was kaput. I panicked and put in a 911 call to Mr. Red Hot Copy, my husband, John.  Now John isn’t about to let me get away lecture -free. He explains to me that I need to get rid of all the spyware from my system. Spyware?! I didn’t ask for any spyware. How could I have such a thing? Well, it turned out my system was loaded with it. We hired a computer geek (I mean this affectionately) to come out and operate. Boy did I get a lesson about computer maintenance. Here’s what I found out.
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