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How’s my evening going?  Glad you care to know.<\/p>\n

Twenty-two adware busts and seven<\/strike> five viruses scrubbed from
\nthe coffers of this ill-behaving PC.  <\/p>\n

Gone from Ad-Aware
\n6.0<\/a> to Spybot
\nS&D 1.3<\/a> to AVG<\/a>. 
\nStill need a personal firewall from Sygate<\/a>. 
\nAnd my brother recommended www.helponthe.net<\/a>
\nrather than wailing at him through my cellphone about this fine tangle.<\/p>\n

But I still can’t get a handle on BackDoor.Agent.2.H.  Sneaky trojan
\nhorse, that one.  Two instances of it will have to sit stable for
\nnow.  Behave!  I teach in the morning, and I’m flat out of time for
\nbattling tech villains. Granted, I could have been more careful to see that everything was properly calibrated when the Road Runner folks departed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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