January 2006 Newsletter
Taming the Wild West of the Internet
Europe Leads PC Technology Trends
Tracking Sony’s DRM Activity
Batteries Getting Hot–In a Bad Way
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December 2005 Newsletter
Rob Cheng’s Take on Sony’s Spyware
Nearly One-Third of Portables are Wide Screen
PC Pitstop Detects Sony Spyware
Sony Rootkit: Number 14 on the Top 25 Spyware
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November 2005 Newsletter
Five Things You Need to Know about Spyware
Antispyware pioneers on the decline
New Spyware Deep Scan available at PC Pitstop
State of Texas to Sony: “Stop Making Spyware”
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Survey Says: Gator Users Didn’t Know
Since September 2003, PC Pitstop has been conducting a survey of users who have Gator or GAIN (Gator Advertising Information Network) applications installed on their PC. Our goal was to determine how much permission had really been granted to “permission based marketing” companies by users who install applications such as Gator’s.
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October 2005 Newsletter
Gator and WhenU Users Still Unaware
Nearly 40% of PC’s can burn DVDs
Skype on the Rise
Recall: HP Notebook Batteries
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September 2005 Newsletter
Rob on Pod
Broadband Marches Ahead
Security Tip: Use a Blank Password
Help Wanted
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August 2005 Newsletter
PC Pitstop Optimize – Free Scan
“Take Us Off Your List!”
Google: Is Good Going Bad?
Performance Tip: Stay Cool for Speed
Summer Blockbusters in Spyware
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Gator’s Advertisers
Gator/Claria makes its money through advertising. In fact, in their SEC S1 filing (Note: 4 megabyte document!) they had revenues of over $100 million dollars! Many of those advertisers are not aware how users have been unwittingly drafted into Claria’s ad network via confusing tactics. The challenge for us is to get the message to these companies, and there is one group that can effectively deliver that message: customers and potential customers.
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July 2005 Newsletter
The Microsoft Brand and Spyware
More P2P and Spyware
MAX PC: CPU Overclocking
Performance Tip: Use It or Remove It
Top Dawg Challenge Winners
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June 2005 Newsletter
New Tests and Site Navigation
PC Pitstop Punts Popups
P2P and Spyware
Live Tech Support Available
No Relation to MyPCTuneup.com!
Performance Tip: Prune Your Prefetch
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