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• The Right Way To Save A Life, Including Your Own, According to Dr. Heimlich and the Red Cross
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• Ingredients in our personal care products, cosmetics, foods, water and air are also dangerous to our health. How to be a safe shopper.
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• What You Need to Know About Asbestos - Contaminated Vermiculite
• Have chronic, searing, debilitating muscle pain? If caused by trigger points, you can relieve it yourself and avoid unnecessary surgery. Learn more.

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• What you need to do to keep your child safe at MySpace.com and other Web hangouts.
• Too smart for the dangers at MySpace? Think again!
• Beware the CyberLover [Bot] That Steals Personal Data in Chat Rooms and Social Networks Through Social Engineering
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• Virtually Worry-Free Computing - Sufficiently Secure and Private Web Surfing
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• How to avoid becoming a victim of or recover from America's credit card debt crisis and recent fee deregulation.
• Parent! Seriously consider moving your preteen or earliteen from MySpace or another Web hangout to imbee or YoKidsYo. Here's why.
• Thinking of buying Windows Vista or a Windows Vista PC? Before you do, seriously consider this first.
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• Does the Bible say God will torture bad people in hell for eternity?
• Was Jesus just a man who married Mary Magdalene? Has the church been hiding information from us for years about Jesus? Don't decide too quickly. Examine the evidence first.
• Think conclusive cases can't be made for the Bible and Jesus as the God/Man Messiah? You'd be surprised. The overwhelming mountain of factual, historical evidence is too compelling, too convincing to be ignored.
• Investigate the Reliability of the Bible
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• If God exists, why is there evil in the world?
• If you're angry at God or see Him in a negative way, discover the good news about God's character and gifts of peace, joy, meaning and eternal life.
• Examine false assumptions about God and Christianity, and why they make us so miserable and unhappy.
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• ''We are living in very interesting times. Too many people are confused about what the Bible says about the future, and a lot of that has to do with confusion about Israel.'' Learn more.
• If an angel or a loved one who has died appears or speaks to you, don't automatically assume it's a good angel or your loved one. Here's why.
• Don't automatically assume the entertainment industry is harmless. Listen to ''Escape From the Black Hole'' or get the DVD.
• Don't automatically assume the growing fascination with Harry Potter, witches, wicca and the occult is harmless either. Explore these controversial topics.
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Security and Privacy Guide

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• Step 1: Operating System
  • Option 3 - Switch to Alternative OS

Option 4 - Run Two or More Operating Systems

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Don't like Windows' security and privacy issues and would like to switch to a more secure operating system, but keep using Windows because there aren't any alternatives to your favorite Windows-based games or office software, or you don't like the ones that are available?

Let Windows and an alternative operating system coexist on your computer's hard drive(s) with one of the following two options. Then use Windows to play your games and / or use your office software, and an alternative operating system when online (strongly recommended).

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• Use Windows when offline and a GNU/Linux Live CD when online.
• Set up a virtual PC on a clean-installed and secured PC or Mac.
• Set up a dual boot system by installing Windows and an alternative operating system on separate partitions or hard drives.

Option 5 - Get a More Secure Version of Windows

A New Security Feature for Windows XP

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ATTENTION: Some CPUs (chips) now have a new security technology AMD calls NX (No eXecute) bit or Enhanced Virus Protection (EVP) and Intel calls Execute Disable Bit or XD Bit. It prevents viruses, trojans and worms that take advantage of buffer overflow from doing their malicious deeds and damaging your system.

CPUs That Have NX or XD Bit:

• Intel Pentium 4 3X1, 3X6, 5X1, 5X6, 6XX (including 3.73GHz Extreme Edition), 8XX (all 3X1 to 8XX chips have 32-bit and 64-bit support through EM64T - Extended Memory 64-bit Technology), 3XXJ, 5XXJ and 7XXJ
• Intel Pentium M 730, 740, 750, 760 and 770 (have 32-bit support)
• Intel 64-bit Xeon (have 32-bit and 64-bit support through EM64T)
• Intel Itanium and Itanium 2 (both have 32-bit - only efficient if it has IA-32 Execution Layer or IA32EL - and 64-bit support)
• All Future Intel CPUs
• AMD Athlon 64 and Athlon 64 FX (both have 32-bit and 64-bit support)
• AMD Sempron for Socket 754 (have 32-bit support - BX chips also have 64-bit support - How to Identify 64-bit Sempron CPUs)
• AMD Opteron Single-core (90 nm version) and Dual-core for Socket 939 / Socket 940 (both have 32-bit and 64-bit support)
• All Future AMD CPUs
• Transmeta Efficeon

The latest versions of Windows, GNU/Linux, Mac OS and BSD now have a security feature that supports NX bit. It's called either Data Execution Prevention (DEP) in Windows Vista and Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (SP2); No eXecute or NX in GNU/Linux, Mac OS and NetBSD; Exec Shield in Red Hat Linux; W^X in OpenBSD or PaX in GNU/Linux for chips that don't have NX bit).

For Windows Users: Unless you already have a computer with a CPU that has NX bit, if you want to take advantage of the protection that it provides, and be able to continue using your 32-bit Windows operating system and software, you'll need to either:

1. upgrade your computer's CPU, or main chip, and BIOS if your computer's motherboard allows for it
2. upgrade your motherboard and CPU if it doesn't, or
3. buy a new computer that has a CPU with NX or XD bit.

WARNING: If you buy a computer with a chip other than one that has NX bit to support Vista's or SP2's DEP technology, you won't be protected from some of the most damaging viruses, trojans and worms that are aimed at Windows and its related software programs.

Here are some articles about the new technology and the chips that support it: skip

• NX bit
• PaX and GNU/Linux Distributions That Use It
• EM64T
• Your CPU's Hidden Weapon
• CPU-Based Security: The NX Bit
• 'No Execute' Flag Waves Off Buffer Attacks
• Windows XP Pro Data Protection Features
• Data Protection The AMD Way
• Intel Catches Up With Its 64-bit Competitors

Security and Privacy Guide

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  • Upgrading Windows

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