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	<description>Ms. Ducktoes is on her way!  Saving computers everyday!</description>
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		<title>How to Remove Spyware and Viruses Manually with Process Explorer</title>
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Here&#8217;s a wonderful training video on how to use Process Explorer to remove viruses manually.  It&#8217;s more for computer technicians than regular computer users, but I&#8217;ve found it helpful in removing the more difficult viruses.
You&#8217;ll find out how to use the Process Explorer and other Sysinternals tools to identify malware infections, from standard spyware [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ducktoes.com/blog/uncategorized/how-to-remove-spyware-and-viruses-manually-with-process-explorer/</link>
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		<title>Start Backing Up Your Files</title>
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Most people love or need the data they store on their computers: their  photos, home videos, favorite music, business and accounting data, and documents of all kinds such as resumes, letters, journals and creative writing.  But, even with such precious data and files in limbo, most people don&#8217;t back up their files.
And many, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ducktoes.com/blog/back-up/start-backing-up-your-files/</link>
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		<title>Speed Up Windows 7 and Vista with this Free Tool</title>
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Here&#8217;s a tool Windows 7 and Vista users will like.  It&#8217;ll speed up their computers with a few tweaks:  Ultimate Windows Tweaker
It seemed to take a good 30 seconds to a minute of boot time off a couple of computers I tried it on.  Let me know what you think.  Click [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ducktoes.com/blog/free-utilities/speed-up-windows-7-and-vista-with-this-free-tool/</link>
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		<title>How to Stay Free with AVG</title>
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The last upgrade of AVG from 8.5 to 9 has many great changes while the best features remain unchanged.  The newest AVG scans much faster and uses less resources, while the residential shield (which catches malware before it has a chance to infest your computer) still works well or even better than before.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ducktoes.com/blog/anti-virus/avg-anti-virus/how-to-stay-free-with-avg/</link>
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		<title>Be Careful when Downloading AVG from Google</title>
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I like AVG&#8230;no bones about it.  And I recommend it to my clients because it&#8217;s easy to use and it&#8217;s reliable and now with version 9.0 it&#8217;s also faster again.  On the comparative tests at Virus.gr, AVG Free removed 97% of the viruses.  I have clients&#8211;with teenage sons&#8212; who used to hire [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ducktoes.com/blog/alerts/be-careful-when-downloading-avg-from-google/</link>
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		<title>AVG Faster Now: AVG Press Release</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The new AVG is out.  It&#8217;s faster and uses less resources which means it uses less of your computer&#8217;s limited processing power while protecting your computer.
Here&#8217;s the press release from October of this year from AVG Technologies describing the newest version of AVG:
&#8220;Amsterdam, October 5, 2009  &#8211; AVG Technologies, developers of the world’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ducktoes.com/blog/free-utilities/avg-faster-now-avg-press-release/</link>
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		<title>How to Fix Black Screen with White Cursor, Part 2</title>
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Often when a computer boots to a black screen with a white cursor it means your hard drive has too many errors to boot properly.  Your hard drive is just too error-stricken to get its act together.  You&#8217;ll need to help it.
If your computer does this and you have an XP Windows machine, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ducktoes.com/blog/troubleshooting/how-to-fix-black-screen-with-white-cursor-part-2/</link>
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		<title>Get Perpendicular Animation from Hitachi</title>
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Here&#8217;s an entertaining animation about perpendicular recording on hard drives.  It&#8217;s from Hitachi&#8217;s Global Storage Technology about Hitachi&#8217;s new hard drive technology.
http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/research/recording_head/pr/PerpendicularAnimation.html
And click here to see the Lab Rats video on perpendicular hard drives.  You have to download it in the different media types such as Quicktime and Real Player below the short [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ducktoes.com/blog/funny/get-perpendicular-animation-from-hitachi/</link>
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		<title>Check out this Wonderful Website: Virus.gr</title>
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I found a great site with all sorts of information about viruses and antiviruses called Virus.gr.  The website is from Greece and among many other valuable resources has free virus scans and comparative tests that rank antivirus programs.
Click here for a link to the free virus scans and programs.
According to Virus. gr, the best [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ducktoes.com/blog/free-utilities/check-out-this-wonderful-website-virus-gr/</link>
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		<title>How to Get Rid of Virut without Reformatting</title>
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Ms. Ducktoes did it!  I beat the dreaded Virut without reformatting. This is how I did it.

 The Dr. Web Cureit Live CD I spoke of in the last post didn&#8217;t work.  At the beginning of the scan, it stopped everytime. So instead:
I created an Ultimate Boot CD for Windows.  I downloaded [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ducktoes.com/blog/computer-repair-tools/how-to-get-rid-of-virut-without-reformatting/</link>
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		<title>Virus Alert:  P2Ps Spreading Dangerous Virus called Virut</title>
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The worst virus I&#8217;ve ever seen is now making its way through Bit Torrent and Limewire and other file sharing programs.  It&#8217;s called Virut.  And once you have it it&#8217;s pretty much game over and time for a clean install.  You&#8217;re done.  At least you&#8217;re operating system is kaput.  So [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ducktoes.com/blog/alerts/virus-alert-p2ps-spreading-virut/</link>
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		<title>More on Google Docs</title>
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Yesterday I mentioned Google Docs as a free alternative to Microsoft Office.
All you have to do is sign up for a free Gmail account and you also receive a calendar program and Google docs, among many other free programs.
With Google docs you can create and share your online documents, presentations, and spreadsheets.  You don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ducktoes.com/blog/e-mail/more-on-google-docs/</link>
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