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Submission + - Online buying not simple

Submitted by

A_Str8

on Monday December 18, 2006 @03:24PM

A_Str8 writes: "Online shopping is supposed to be easy and convenient — click a few times and wait for your tax-free merchandise to be delivered to your door. For someone like me, who works 9-5, it never seems that simple. All the major delivery companies deliver during normal working hours. More often than not, I either have to get my items deliverd to my job (which I'd rather not do) or find a way to get to the inconveniantly located ups/fedex warehouse. How do other people deal with recieving packages?"

Submission + - Thunderbird 2 beta 1 released

Submitted by Espinas217 on Monday December 18, 2006 @02:28PM

Espinas217 writes: Following the release of Firefox 2 now comes the release of Mozilla's Foundation email program Thunderbird 2 Beta 1 with some new features like Message Tags and Conversations (I think I saw those somewhere else). From the release notes: Thunderbird 2 Beta 1 is a developer preview release of our next generation Thunderbird email client and is being made available for testing purposes only. Thunderbird 2 Beta 1 is intended for our testing community.

Submission + - Good Anti-Virus app for friends/family?

Submitted by

CTachyon

on Monday December 18, 2006 @01:59PM

CTachyon writes: "A friend at work is having the usual Windows trouble with viruses and Trojans. She has an anti-virus program on there of some sort (unknown vintage, neither McAfee nor Symantec/Norton), and while it cleaned up a good chunk of the mess, there's still at least one more lurking on her system.

As one of the resident computer 'experts' at work, she came to me for advice. Unfortunately for her, I'm out of the Windows loop since I jumped ship to Linux years ago. While the proper thing for her to do at this point would be to back up her important data and reinstall from her recovery CD, I no longer have the patience for Windows to do that for anyone I'm not sleeping with, and it's a bit over her level of expertise to handle herself. That pretty much leaves trying another AV program.

Thus the problem. I'm out of the loop, so I don't know what's good and what's not. I did manage to instill in her a proper fear of Symantec/Norton, but I don't really know what I should recommend instead. If all else fails, I vaguely recall that AVG is decent, and it's little-f free (big plus for her). Do any of my fellow Slashdotters have some better advice for her?"

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