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 | I expect a lot of the phishing sites also host malware. If they put mailware in the email, it's likely to be blocked. If they can trick you into going to their site, why not try to infect you while you're there? If they can install a keylogger on your …  |
| | Malwarebytes Anti Malware, mentioned in Step 4, is an excellent program - but you failed to mention another important tool from them, [Malwarebytes Chameleon](https://www.malwarebytes.org/chameleon/). When malware blocks you from installing or running Malwarebytes Anti Malware, this will install it under a random file name so malware can't recognize it.  |
| | Microsoft hasn't stopped supporting XP yet, that will happen April 8, 2014. Lack of support isn't an argument for leaving XP behind until then. If it does everything you need, why not hang on to it as long as you can? |
| | Any business with Internet-connected computers should expect to be attacked. That only 64% did was what shocked me.  |
 | Do you have security update 2823324 installed? It can cause Win 7 to fail to boot, and Microsoft recommends uninstalling it. I got bitten by it - by the time I heard about the problem, I'd already restarted my Win 7 laptop several times since the update installed, thought it … |
| | XP disk management won't align partitions properly for an SSD, and wrong alignment will hurt performance and reduce the life of your SSD. You need to use a third-party tool (or Win 7 or Vista, which do it automatically) to align partitions correctly. Some SSDs come with a bootable tools … |
 | @ johnny-mashal - Linux can be very easy to use if you get the right distro. Ever try Puppy? Does everything most computer users need without ever opening the console. Helpful wizards walk you through tasks. It's lightning fast, too. |
| | It is a well-known correlation, and it's usually attributed to schizophrenics trying to self-medicate. They use other drugs at higher rates as well. |
| | Do you mean MSI has stopped working? There's an app that might fix that,[Dial-a-fix](http://wiki.djlizard.net/Dial-a-fix). It's quick and easy to run, *but* you should follow the directions and run the recommended diagnostics first to rule out hardware problems and file system corruption - if there are problems like that, you could …  |
 | On the Chrome OS vs Chromium OS question: Chromium is open-source, Chrome will be Google's proprietary OS. Also, Chrome will run only on systems specifically designed for it. They share the same code base, so there's not a lot of difference between them; Chrome will be more polished, could have … |
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