Computer Information Resources
- News & Reviews
- Windows Vista
- Recommended Reading & Listening
- Your Freedom & Free Alternatives
- Antivirus
- Spyware
- Firewall
- Security
- Backup & Data Recovery
- Software
- Internet, Browser & Email
- Hardware
- What Comes After the Windows Era?
- Bypassing Microsoft Vista's Memory Protection
- You'll get a new Windows Update, like it or not
- Septics question Microsoft move
- My Dear John Letter from MSN Music
- Office 2007 Fails the Test
- 'Genuine' Notifications Screw Up, Again
- Microsoft raises support fees for Windows, Office
- Ten Reasons To Dump Windows
- Microsoft tricks users into installing IE 7
- Vista's bad rep
- Everybody Hates Vista
- Vista - Arrogance & Stupidity
- Vista Security by the Numbers
- The Trouble with Vista
- DRM (Digital Rights Management) in Windows Vista
- Windows Vista's half-cocked firewall
- Vista Upgrade Edition is lame by design
- That $200 Windows XP service pack called Vista
- 25 Shortcomings Of Vista
- This Week In Tech With Leo Laport
- Security Now with Steve Gibson
- C|Net Security Bites
- Scot’s Newsletter - Windows, broadband, do-it-yourself networking, Microsoft, and the Internet.
- Support Alert Newsletter
- John C. Dvorak - Columns at PC Magazine
- Personal Spotlight - people in technology: Leo Laporte
- Why Linux?
- DRM - Digital Rights Management
- The office document scandal
- Support Freedom - The Hague Declaration
- Defective By Design - How your freedom is being taken away
- Microsoft's activation scheme is just plain stupid
- Electronic Frontier Foundation - Protecting your digital rights
- Why Switch to Linux?
- What is free software?
- Open Source Software: It's Not (Only) About the Money
- The Economics of Free Software
- Truth Happens - articles and videos on open source, intellectual property, transparency, and more
- Privacy Rights Clearinghouse
- Kaspersky Antivirus ***Recommended*** Review
- 2008 antivirus performance test scores
- Which anti-virus products are up to scratch on Windows Vista
- Free Virus Removers (not a substitute for antivirus)
- Virus Bulletin independent malware advice
- Netcraft Toolbar - Guard against phishing
- Tasklist.org - list of processes
- AdAware Spyware Removal
- Spybot Search & Destroy Spyware Removal
- HijackThis - if the above programs don't remove it
- Capsule Reviews Of Products
- Finding, Removing and Preventing Online Pests
- Prevent Spyware
- Preventing & Understanding Spyware
- Spyware Guide
- FTC Consumer Alert - Spyware
- ZoneAlarm A very popular firewall. Note on ZoneAlarm Checkup
- Why you need a firewall
- Test your firewall
- How firewalls work
- Cybercrime value tops $100 billion a year
- The DNS Bug: Why You Should Care - **The whole Internet is vulnerable!**
- CERT by Carnegie Mellon University
- SANS Top 20 Internet Security Attack Targets
- Are Your Passwords Still Secret?
- Windows security for computer illiterates
- The Dissection of a Rootkit
- bleeping computer Security news and information
- Linux Security: A Big Edge Over Windows
- Why Windows is a Security Nightmare
- What Differentiates Linux from Windows?
- Acronis True Image 11 A complete data protection suite. Download free trial.
- 2GB Totally Free Online Backup! Do It Now!!
- Data Recovery - Washington Post article
- Emergency Booting Windows PCs
- Windows Data Recovery
- Recover Email in Outlook Express
- What to do when the screen goes blank
- Open Office - High Quality Free Office Suite
- Free and open-source software
- The 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities
- Free Utilities
- Open Source Free Software
- Don't spread Internet Hoaxes! - Hoax Busters
- Migrating to Mozilla Firefox: the Pros, Cons & Installation
- Opera - Another good free browser
- Thunderbird An excellent email program
- Inbox Zero - Tips To Manage Your Email
- Anti-Spam Tips and Resources
- Internet Speed Survey and Resources speedmatters.org
- Test Your Connection
- Toms' Hardware Computer hardware reviews and information
- AnadTech Hardware analysis and news
- BIOS Central BIOS error codes and information
- The BIOS Companion
- StorageReview.com Hard Drive Information & Reviews
- Hardware Secrets Uncomplicating the complicated
- Linksysinfo.org Linksys Routers and networking information
- Hardware articles, guides & forums
- ResellerRatings.com- check vendor ratings
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