We all know of the dangers of the internet, especially if you’re a Windows user.  Viruses and spyware lerk in every corner watching and waiting to eat and destroy our data.  Luckily there are software and services to protect us!  The bad part about this, is the leading companies feel the need to charge us to stay safe on the internet!  Why?!  You would think, something so drastically essential to our every day use of the computer and the internet would be free, right?  Well, there are some free alternatives out there, you just have to find them.  In this post I’ll list some info on free anti-virus and anti-spyware alternatives to big name, and sometimes expensive, protection.

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We all know the more memory, the faster CPU, the better motherboard, and the bigger hard drive you have will definately help boost the performance of any PC.  Now with Vista out and running, the standard ammount of RAM is 2Gigs…but unfortunately, not all of us can afford that.  Some of us even have decent hardware already, yet we tend to deal with and dread the slow performance of our PC’s, but why?

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