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I’ve been trying out chat applications that work on my home network for a couple of years now. This one is the best I’ve found so far. It has tons of features and it even has a battleship game you can play over a network. I also had fun grabbing remote screenshots from my wife’s [...]

A subscriber to my newsletter recently asked a good question …
Letter from Eddie in Australia:
Hi Clif,
I have read a lot about “Registry Cleaners” and how they can clean up 1000s of unwanted registry entries. Are these programs safe for the “ordinary” person to use, and can you cause any damage to your computer?.
Kindest regards,
Eddie
My response:
Hi [...]

This is ironic. I’ve been waiting for someone to call me a hypocrite, but so far, nobody seems to notice just how foolish I am.
In my last blog article here, I wrote a little about the “sponsored” links at Download.com and how Download.com is actually making money by sending folks off to these sponsored websites that are [...]

One of my old internet pals, Steven Burn, wrote me about finding malware in Kiwi Alpha, which is a peer to peer file sharing client. He found it at Download.com. He knows I’ve had bad experiences at Download.com in the past.
Steven sent me a link to a thread at SpywareWarrior’s forums where he had posted his analysis [...]

What will you do? You’ve just re-installed Windows 98 on an old PC. Maybe you should get it updated at Microsoft? If you do, be prepared to spend several hours there.
Autopatcher for Windows 98se to the rescue!
I recently tried it. It took about 50 minutes, and it’s just chock-full of goodies to keep a new [...]