WACUG: Spriggs' Web Sites January 2004

Lu Spriggs' January 2004 Web Sites

http://www.wjla.com/ ABC Channel7 site for all sorts of useful information. You could make this your home page!!
http://www.pwcgov.com/ Here is Prince William County's new web site with extensive information about the County.
http://www.find.pcworld.com/21382/ At this site you can download the Install program (regclean.exe). This will install the Microsoft program 'Regclean', intended for Windows 95/98. Regclean can sweep out defunct hardware and software settings that can clog up your registry. My thanks to Paul Howard for this tip.
http://faculty.washington.edu/jcramer/BBSound.html Remember the 'Big Bang' when the universe was created? This site is maintained by Professor Cramer at University of Washington, and gives Information about the 'Big Bang'. Dr. Cramer has even synthesized the sound of the BB. You can download an audio file to play on your computer!
http://pets.yahoo.com This site maintained by Purina has information about all types of pets. Or you can ask Purina any Pet question for their experts to answer.
http://companion.yahoo.com If you use USoft Internet Explorer, this program will serve as a web portal and will block all Pop-up Ads with the Yahoo! Companion Tool Bar. Will work only with Internet Explorer browser.
http://anti-phishing.org/ "Phishing" can be defined as the illegal solicitation of any confidential personal information for identity theft purposes. Never answer any request to update your personal info from any site. That is not a normal business request. Report the illegal 'phishing' attempt to the Federal Trade Commission send it to uce@ftc.org. Refer to the attached link for information. My thanks to my friend Jim Armstrong for this tip. He has been 'psished' at Amazon.com, and Earthlink.com.
http://www.pcdoctor.com/ Here is the technical support site, offering links to all major manufacturer sites. From memory, harddrives, motherboards to complete systems.
http://www.lindows.com/ Is there a new, non-Micro soft computer in your future? Open Source, Linux, code has a considerable cost advantage over Microsoft code. Visit this site for information about LindowsOS Desktop Linux applications.
http://www.spybot.info/ You can download Spybot-Search & Destroy (3.5 Mb.) It detects and will remove spyware, adware. internet dialers, etc. which can corrupt your machine. The download is free, but a donation is accepted to pay for the effort of keeping this program continually updated.

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