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How Swine Flu Spreads

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When you get the flu, viruses turn your cells into tiny factories that help spread the disease. In this animation, NPR's Robert Krulwich and medical animator David Bolinsky explain how a flu virus can trick a single cell into making a million more viruses.

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SnowBird File Explorer

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Windows Explorer is the default file explorer in Windows and often does a pretty good job.  It lets you look over the entire file system, see files and details about the files, and for some types even gives you a preview of what's inside.  It is, however, not very fast, and can also have stability issues. SnowBird is a free, lightweight, portable program that will allow you to quickly browse the files on your system.  It doesn't have all the features of Windows Explorer, but it has all the basics and does them very quickly.  Even network drives and Internet drives are quickly explored with this program.  Also, since it's independant of Windows, unlike Explorer, if it crashes (which I have yet to see), it won't take down your desktop with it.  You can also run it from a flash drive so you can use it on machines where you may not have access to run Windows Explorer, or where a virus or spyware has prevented explorer from running. Overall, a VERY useful and fast little program. SnowBird

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Easy Linux Install From Windows

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Today I used WUBI to install the Ubuntu Linux onto my work machine.  WUBI runs from INSIDE Windows itself, and easily installs the OS and includes a boot-menu that allows you to choose which OS you want to use.  If you decide you don't like it, uninstall it like you would with any other Windows Program. I decided to install it for the better performance, virus immunity (at least from Windows based viruses, which are 99% of them), and ability to more easily recover data from dying hard drives. I also installed WINE which allows me to run some Windows programs from within Linux, so that I can have those must-have programs. All-in-all so far, working very well.

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Scan For and Remove Viruses From Your Comptuer Outside of Windows

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Viruses and Spyware can become a pain on many computers.  Many viruses are difficult to remove while actually inside of Windows using your normal Anti-Virus. In steps the Dr Web  LiveCD.  It's a linux BootCD that will boot and run an antivirus program off a CD without loading Windows. Simply download the CD Image from http://www.freedrweb.com/livecd Then use the burn image function of your CD burning software or (preferred method) by using IMGBurn Once the CD is created, simply boot your computer off the CD and click Start on the scanner. This is a VERY effective anti-virus and requires very little computer knowledge.

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Remove Old Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware Software

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Often whenan anti-virus program expires, or fails to stop an infection, you will need to remove it to install a newer version.  Many people at this time run into the problem of their old software being corrupt and not removing.  Some anti-virus vendors supply useful "removal tools" for their software, but are often very difficult to find and sometimes require calling the company and waiting on hold. If you REALLY need to remove an anti-virus or anti-Spyware software off your machine for whatever reason, it just got a little easier. AppRemover is an all-in-one  removal program that lets you easily remove old, corrupt,  or broken Anti-Virus/Anti-Spyware programs.  It will also let you remove Symantec Anti-Virus from machines without having to dig and find what password you used during the install. AppRemover

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