Link: CounterSpy.

I hate malaware, spyware, dirty-underwear. For the first two I found an excellent program that is cheap and works. CounterSpy rocks, I just loaded it, and found oodles of spyware I couldn’t find before with my Norton Anti-Spy and Yahoo Anti-Spy toolbar. The Yahoo Anti-Spy toolbar is better, in my opinion, than Norton’s. So if you need a free solution, use Yahoo’s. But Counterspy, at $20, really is significantly better. My PC was crawling…now it’s happy

Oh the last one, I found that a good douse of bleach works great – or a scrub board near a local stream

08/31/11  CounterSpy was discontinued in March 2011 see announcement here

   Well as fingers went to keys and my VoIP article was coming to life, (amidst cussing, coffee drinking, my cats coming in the office then out of the office, and a house full of teenagers savaging for food and “something to do ’cause we’re so bored”), what should show up in my RSS feed but this wonderful article by Jeff Bertolucci of PC World entitled, “Net Phones Grow Up” I really can’t replicate the wonderful lab that PC World has  – the budget for testing at Beck’s Cafe is pretty much limited to tasting the latest grind from Costa Rica, not testing the latest technology – but, I can add my personal experience with VoIP.

My rationale for using VoIP was to make business calls less expensive and, I admit, the cool factor was just “there” for me. The wonderful thought of being tres chic with my VoIP phone, bypassing the standard system, was alluring. Too bad the hype hasn’t lived up to the facts. Still, VoIP phones, when they’ve worked for me, have saved me alot of money. More on the “when they’ve worked comment” later in this post.

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