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As far as I know, it wasn't there at first, he forgot to write that.

Funny how when there is a critical zero day exploit which can do remote code execution and install malware and all kinds of crazy stuff, it takes Microsoft a month until the next "patch Tuesday" to fix it. But when there is a vulnerability in the Windows DRM that allowed people to circumvent the copy-protection there is a patch within 3 days.

Yes, I think so. You can surf to http://www.ipchicken.com/ to see what IP address that your surfing is getting proxied through. If you use Torpark, it should be different than your real IP address.

Yes, of course its no silver bullet. It can help you with your anonymity but it wont guarantee your anonymity. Public Wi-Fi networks can be good sometimes though. Yes it does matter even if you aren't looking certain stuff up. Or maybe you would like the goverment to have remote access to your computer and be able to access all your files and see what you do? "Why not? If you aren't doing anything bad, you got nothing to worry about", or? I would always want privacy, even if I was only looking up a recipe on how to make pasta sauce.

This is why CCleaner should have file hashes on the website.

Good old capitalist milking money.

I think that Symantec is pissed because Microsoft don't make a way to allow them to replace the Windows Security Center with their own thing or something like that. I wont be using Vista either though. You need a state-of-the-art graphics card with huge amounts of RAM and much processor power just to run the graphical user interface. You thought WGA and Active Registration in XP was a itch with a b? Wait until Vista. Vista with its new DRM will perform useless operating such as encryption video in its PVP (Protected Video Path) system, because they want make it more difficult to rip videos and stuff. So basically it does nothing good for you, and waste your CPU cycles. Hollywood got their will through here. The security in Vista will be better though. Normally users wont run with full administration privileges, something thats been the norm in the Unix-world for about uhm 35 years?

Keep in mind that you should always do backup of important data, because you never know when something unexpected happens.

You can try your best to prevent them from getting their hands on chemicals by keeping them in a secure placed locked away, and by informing them of the dangerous. But you can never make sure they wont get their hands on them. Kids even sniff gas from lighters, anyone can get their hands on a lighter today.

Torpark is Firefox Portable with Tor onion routing. It chains your data through multiple Tor servers which make it more anonymous because the target webserver which you contact won't see your IP address. However, your surfing will be slower. Now while speaking of anonymity, there is a LiveCD distribution based on the OpenBSD operating system called Anonymous.OS by kaos.theory security research. OpenBSD is well known for its extreme stance on computer security.

Yeah. Operating system report 1 kilobyte to be 1024 bytes. But the disk manufacturers consider 1 kilobyte to be 1000 bytes. The word "kilo" means thousand.

I wouldn't know since I don't use Outlook Express. But I don't recall hearing about other people complaining about Outlook Explorer and CCleaner. I thought you should know that Outlook Express is by many considered to be very insecure. It is often described as one of the main ways that Internet worms propagate. By exploiting bugs in the parsing of e-mail headers, it is even possible for you to get infected with viruses, worms and malware without even opening the e-mail. You might be interested in Mozilla Thunderbird.

1) No there is no such feature in CCleaner. However Windows has a built-in feature for "Scheduled Tasks", you can find it in the Windows Control Panel. 2) I have noticed this too. I am not why it behaves that way. 3) CCleaner cleans files for the current logged in user only.

What Woody said.

Yeah, WYSIWYG is for suckers! Real men use text editors.

If you thinking about the optical processor mentioned by Humpty, then probably none. Probably wouldn't even need a heatsink. The upcoming Intel Core 2 Quadro, which is a normal silicon processor like every other day, have a TDP that is twice as high as the Core 2 Duo (Conroe). The upcoming AMD K8L, I have no idea, but probably cooler than Core 2 Duo. The Cell processor seems pretty interesting. Worth to mention is that it is not x86 architecture though but it seems it have some performance. The processors today used in consumer computers, Intel Pentium 4, Intel Core Duo, AMD Athlon 64, etc are all based on the x86 architecture which is about 20 years old. And we will continue use the x86 architecture for many years to come, because switching to another architecture is a pain, because it breaks compatibility. Apple have been using the PowerPC (PPC) architecture for theri Mac computers for a long time, but recently they have switched over to the x86 architecture.

1. Goto "My Computer". 2. Right click on D: and select Properties. 3. Select the "Tools" tab. 4. Click the "Check Now" button. Maybe that helps.

Often the registry entries point to something invalid or that once existed but does not exist anymore or something, so it gets removed when you fix it. CCleaner offers you to make a backup of the registry entries that it deletes prior to deleting them. Usually it is safe, but just in case something goes wrong, it offers you a registry backup so you can revert the settings.

On Norton Antivirus, not only do you need a CD-key, but you also need todo some "active registration" thing. Freeware alternatives to commercial antivirus software are often much better, such as AVG Free. Though, NOD32 is commercial and supposedly pretty damn good. Norton is not good though, and Panda isn't very cool either.

Yes, sometimes it can be better, sometimes it can be worse. Generally speaking, I prioritize free software / open source software. My opinion is that it usually is better. Open source developers make software because that is what they love todo. Commercial software developers make software to get their paycheck. I also feel much more safe and secure with open source software. In open source software, spyware/adware/malware/etc is pretty much non-existant, you're more likely to win the lottery 10 times.

Webmasters who have websites that don't valid as valid HTML/XHTML and CSS should be hanged. Same for news sites that don't provide RSS feeds. Have a website? Validate it! * HTML/XHTML - http://validator.w3.org/ * CSS - http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

I have no such problem. Firefox is fast for me. You can try download latest Firefox maybe it works better than whatever version you used back then, also in a couple of weeks or a month, I think that Firefox 2.0 will be released. Maybe that will work better for you. Until then you can atleast try Opera, it is standard-compliant (unlike IE) and more secure than IE.

The clicking Clean after Analyze is a security feature so that after you analyze it, you can inspect what to be deleted before you confirm the cleaning.

An issue is a problem. When you use the Issue scanner, CCleaner scans your Windows registry for issues (problems) such as broken file assiocations, and other stuff. If it finds any problem, it offers to fix this problem.

No. CCleaner cleans unnecessary temporary files and such. These are normally placed on the system drive. Your other drives probably doesn't have anything that can be cleaned.