"Google Apps Standard Edition makes it easy for your club, family, sports team or group to communicate and collaborate online - and it's free."

I often see business cards for smaller companies or side businesses that provide an e-mail address from a free service (Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail, etc).  With Google's offering of Google Apps, I hereby declare this to be no longer acceptable.

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It's unfortunate that PC security these days is more complex than it used to be.  Terms like spyware and malware have become common terms associated with anti-virus software. Sadly, most applications won't clean out every malicious file.

In the last year, there has been a wave of hoax anti-virus applications that look and act like actual anti-virus programs when, in fact, they themselves are the virus.  Some are rather simple to clean and mildly annoying, while others put up a good fight, disabling task manager and disallowing any software to run, claiming they're "infected."

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