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<div style="margin-left: 40px;"> <img style="width: 88px; height: 31px;" alt="Clif Notes Newsletter" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v88/clif_notes/cnnl88x31.png" align="middle"> <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">October 24,
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<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: arial;"><br>Reviews<br>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"> <img alt="Grahics" src="http://img29.photobucket.com/albums/v88/clif_notes/graphics.gif" align="middle" border="0" height="32" width="32"> <strong>HoverSnap</strong> - screen capture
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<td><font face="Arial" size="2">HoverSnap is a really nice screen capture utility.
No install needed, just unzip it and start it up. Once HoverSnap is set up and
running you can take very fast screen shots without even typing in a file name.
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<a href="http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm">Website</a> - Quote
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<i>HoverSnap is a a free handy snapshot tool with jpg, png, bmp and gif
support.HoverSnap can take snapshots of the full screen, active window or a
selected area. It can even capture layered windows (alphablended ones under 2K /
XP). You can even FTP upload your screenshots !</font></i></td></tr></tbody>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"> <img alt="Security" src="http://img29.photobucket.com/albums/v88/clif_notes/security.gif" align="middle" border="0" height="32" width="32"> <strong>A</strong>²<strong> Free</strong> - kills
trojans, dialers, worms, and spyware </font></div></td></tr>
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<td><font face="Arial" size="2">If you ever need maximum strength scanning, look no
further than a-squared free. Currently it has 27,000 signatures that it scans
for.
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<a href="http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/">Website</a> - <a href="http://download3.emsisoft.com/a2freesetup.exe">Download</a> - Quote from
the website
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a² is a complementary product to antivirus software. It provides specialist
protection against harmful software. Antivirus software is not enough! a²
provides protection against Trojans, Dialers and Spyware. a² fills the gaps that
malware writers exploit.</font></td></tr></tbody>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><img alt="Editors" src="http://img29.photobucket.com/albums/v88/clif_notes/doc.gif" align="middle" border="0" height="32" width="32"> <strong>HTMLGate FREE</strong> - all in one html
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">An A+ web publishing tool. I find it to be extremely powerful and full featured despite it's comparatively small download
size. The Fastedit mode is perfect for html newbies and the CodeEdit mode is
full of time saving short cuts for more experienced users. I've personally
corresponded with the author and he is very receptive to any suggestions or bug
reports. All things considered this is one of those programs that I have trouble
believing is free. I hope it stays free a while longer
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><a href="http://www.tucows.com/preview/379892">Website</a> - Quote from
the website </font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">The most efficient and powerful web-editor, whether you're an experienced
web professional or just a novice starting with your first web site, it is the
complete set of features and tools you need to design, build and publish web
sites in less time and with great results!</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"> </font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">The FastEdit (WYSIWYG) takes you one further step into better design and
the W3's HTML Tidy helps you to easily check and reformat your web-documents
after the W3 standard. </font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"> </font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Other features includes FTP, ToDo Manager, HTML compressor, image effects,
image converters, GIF animator, GIF SizeOptimizer and many other exciting
features and tools.</font></div></td></tr></tbody>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"> <img alt="Internet" src="http://img29.photobucket.com/albums/v88/clif_notes/internet.gif" align="middle" border="0" height="32" width="32"> <strong>K-Meleon</strong> - small safe alternative to
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<td><font face="Arial" size="2">For those of you who don't like taking risks with
internet security, here is yet another alternative to Internet Explorer. I
checked the security at scanit.be and it passed 33 out of 34 tests. The one it
failed wasn't a big concern. I tried it out and it works fine at most websites
including Yahoo mail and Hotmail.
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<a href="http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/">Website</a> - <a href="http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php?id=Download">Download</a>
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K-Meleon is an extremely fast, customizable, lightweight web browser for the
win32 (Windows) platform based on the Gecko layout engine (the rendering engine
of Mozilla). K-Meleon is free, open source software released under the GNU
General Public License.</font></td></tr></tbody>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"> <img alt="Security" src="http://img29.photobucket.com/albums/v88/clif_notes/security.gif" align="middle" border="0" height="32" width="32"> <strong>Panda Quick Remove</strong> - get rid of
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Got an itch? Do you think you might be infected?
This free download can fix the most common infections.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><a href="http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/utilities/">Website</a> - <a href="http://updates.pandasoftware.com/pq/gen/badtrans/pqremove.com">Download</a>
- Quote from the website </font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">The sophisticated techniques used by today's worms go way beyond just
infecting files. They can corrupt operating system components, change system
settings and can even leave your computer out of action.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Panda QuickRemover is a tool aimed to complement our antivirus solutions,
and is designed specifically to help restore your computer from all the possible
effects of a virus.</font></div></td></tr></tbody>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"> <img alt="System" src="http://img29.photobucket.com/albums/v88/clif_notes/system.gif" align="middle" border="0" height="32" width="32"> <strong>Registrar Lite</strong> - registry
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">An excellent registry tool. If you like to get your
hands dirty with a little registry hacking, this editor has the features you
will need. I really like the ability to copy a registry key from a text file or
web page, and paste it into Registrar Lite to help me find the key in my
registry.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><a href="http://www.resplendence.com/reglite">Website</a> - <a href="http://www.resplendence.com/download/reglite.exe">Download</a> - Quote
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Registrar Lite is a powerful and flexible freeware registry editor. It
offers an explorer style interface which supports the clipboard and allows you
to drag and drop registry keys and values. </font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">It offers background search and replace, a bookmark editor which allows you
to add descriptions to registry keys as well as advanced registry value data
editors which support all existing registry data
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><img alt="Crappy" src="http://img29.photobucket.com/albums/v88/clif_notes/toilet.gif" align="middle" border="0" hspace="0"><strong>Viewpoint Toolbar v2.0</strong> - searching the
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">I thought that this toolbar looked really cool and
thought I'd give it a try. While preparing to install it I was stopped dead in
my tracks by this message in the EULA (end user license agreement).</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"> <em>the Viewpoint Toolbar sends a request to
Viewpoint’s servers or the servers of Viewpoint’s licensors. This request
includes the keyword query, time of day, browser type, default language setting,
IP address, an anonymous unique ID, and a code which identifies the distribution
source of the Viewpoint Toolbar used by you to conduct your search. We use this
information in order to properly process your search request.</em></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">By most definitions, this is spyware. I'm not
saying it's bad. I'm just saying it spies on you and I don't want anyone
tracking my visits around the web. So this is one toolbar that ends up in the
toilet as far as I'm concerned.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><a href="http://dw.com.com/redir?pid=10311523&merid=6256643&mfgid=6256643&lop=dir&edId=3&siteId=4&oId=3000-2379_4-10311523&ontId=2379&destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.viewpoint.com%2Fpub%2Findex.html">Website</a>
- <a href="http://www.download.com/Viewpoint-Toolbar/3000-2379-10311523.html?tag=lst-0-3">Download</a>
<font color="#ff0000"><- not recommended</font> - Quote from the website </font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">The Viewpoint Toolbar 2.0.0.35 features graphically enhanced search
technology and makes searching the Internet more fun, visual, and productive.
With substantially improved speed and performance, this application also is
packed with new features. You can now receive real-time thumbnail previews and
text in the results tray, block annoying pop-ups with advanced Pop-Up Slammer
technology, share favorite visual bookmarks with friends, and personalize the
look and feel with skins. You also can highlight and right-click to search
directly from the Web page, get comparative results when searching with other
providers, and enjoy image and multi-media search. You'll always receive
accurate and relevant results provided by Yahoo search. The Viewpoint Toolbar is
free and installs easily.</font></div></td></tr></tbody>
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<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Tips</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></span></span></div><br>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"> <img alt="Help" src="http://img29.photobucket.com/albums/v88/clif_notes/help.gif" align="middle" border="0" height="32" width="32"> <strong>Calendar of Updates</strong> - what programs
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<td><font face="Arial" size="2">Here's a one stop shopping place for finding out if
any of your security programs can be updated. It's a little difficult to find
stuff at first, but I found if you click on the "week view" tab it's a little
easier.
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<a href="http://www.dozleng.com/updates/index.php?act=calendar">Website</a> -
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Calendar of Updates (COU) is still well under a year old, yet has grown very
quickly in terms, not only, of membership (and visiting guests), but also in
content. Our initial goal was to provide am easy, user friendly site for users
to be able to stay on top of their security updates. From that base, we began
offering many additional pieces of information, including:<br>Breaking Security
News<br>Links to many of the major help forums<br>Links to tutorials on many of
the major security related products<br>Tips of the Day<br>Interesting Sites of
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"> <img alt="Help" src="http://img29.photobucket.com/albums/v88/clif_notes/help.gif" align="middle" border="0" height="32" width="32"> <strong>HiJackThis Tutorial</strong> - from
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<td><font face="Arial" size="2">For some of us, the program HiJackThis was a little
bewildering the first time we used it. This is the one of the better tutorials
I've seen for using HJT to solve problems with malware infections.
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<a href="http://www.download.com/How-to-Use-HijackThis/1200-2023_4-5120495.html?tag=txt">Website</a>
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Sometimes, despite your best efforts, insidious adware burrows into your
computer and won't come out. It can hijack your home page, add an unwanted
toolbar to your browser, pop up ads, or even track your every movement for
commercial gain. You should always try running standard adware-removal programs
such as Ad-aware and Spybot - Search & Destroy first, but when they can't
keep the nasties at bay, HijackThis digs deep.</font></td></tr></tbody>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"> <img alt="Website" src="http://img29.photobucket.com/albums/v88/clif_notes/website.gif" align="middle" border="0" hspace="0"> <strong>Unwantedlinks.com</strong> - a great source
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<td><font face="Arial" size="2">I happened across this website during a Google
search.
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</font><a href="http://www.unwantedlinks.com/index.html"><font face="Arial" size="2">Website</font></a><font size="2"><font face="Arial"> - Quote from the website
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</font><font face="Arial">Unwanted Links is devoted to raising consumer awareness
about consumer privacy and the problems of spyware and adware programs. We have
nothing to sell, we only wish to provide web surfers with information about the
various spyware programs that might be affecting their privacy & putting
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"> <img alt="Website" src="http://img29.photobucket.com/albums/v88/clif_notes/website.gif" align="middle" border="0" hspace="0"> <strong>cgi.hauntedhouse.com</strong> - a scary place
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<td><font face="Arial" size="2">You'll probably stay here awhile looking around.
It's really cool.
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<a href="http://hauntedhouse.com/">Website</a> - Quote from the website
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Thanks for visiting the All New HauntedHouse.com web site. Our goal is to turn
HauntedHouse.com into the world's largest Haunt-related internet portal and
offer our visitors a positive research, educational and/or shopping
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"> <img alt="Website" src="http://img29.photobucket.com/albums/v88/clif_notes/website.gif" align="middle" border="0" hspace="0"> <strong>Florida Voting Machine</strong> -
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<td><font face="Arial" size="2">I saw this joke at work. I apologize to any
Floridians, but it's just so funny.
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<a href="http://www.wc3sear.ch/misc/Voting_Machine.wmv">Download</a> (this is a
Windows Media Player Video file and it's quite large)
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