Sirius Stuff

I was really pleased with myself. Not only have I been running AdAware and SpyBot - S&D on a regular basis but now I’d added Microsoft’s real-time anti-spyware to the mix in addition to running Norton. I’m locked down, right? So I downloaded a home page editor that looked good and […]

Well, Microsoft had decided to do something about the bad publicity that they’re getting over peoples’ computers being hijacked by various things that IE downloads. So they’ve released their own anti-spyware program.
As usual, it’s got a gotcha: it not only requires you to let it look around by running an ActiveX control but you […]

Two programs that every Windows user needs on their machine:
Lavasoft’s AdAware Free for personal use and I’ve found it a little more updated on bad things people are trying to put on my computer.
Spybot - Search and Destroy Totally free and very good.
I like to run AdAware once every two weeks […]

The week outside MyPages started with an article in the paper about LiveJournalLiveJournal, based here in Portland, being sold to Six Degrees. Because we consider user involvement so important for MyPages, I’m very interested in hearing what happens with any community-based website. Whether the community is online, as with LiveJournal, or more local […]