+ Investigators for the record industry multi-nationals (Universal, Mushroom, EMI, Sony, Warner and BMG) raided the offices of Kazaa in Australia. Investigators have federal court permission to fish through 12 premises for evidence that would indicate possible copyright infringement. - Sharman Networks, makers of Kazaa, has already been released from liability for what their users do with it’s software, in both the US and the Netherlands. - The laws that normally protect corporations are working against corporations.

+ Don’t forget to use Ad-aware. It will ’scan your memory, registry, hard, removable and optical drives for known datamining, aggressive advertising, and tracking components, Ad-aware will provide the user with the confidence to surf the Internet knowing that their privacy will remain intact. Let Ad-aware protect your privacy.’

+ Problems with XP suddenly slowing down to a crawl when browsing folders containing video files? While in the middle of the slow down open your task manager (right click your bottom toolbar). Click Task Manger. Click the System tab. Does the graph show 100% CPU usage? Click the Processes tab. Does explorer.exe show a large two digit number under the CPU column? Check the folder you were browsing when the slow down started. Is there an .avi file in there? If so, that’s your problem. You need to edit your registry to change how windows deals with .avi files. To do that go to Start >> Run >> type in ‘Regedit’ >> this is your registry editing tool. ~ Be careful using this program. ~ Browse to ‘HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREClassesCLSID{87D62D94-71B3-4b9a-9489-5FE6850D C73E}InProcServer32′ and delete the key. The problem is that XP reads entire files before allowing access to them. An improperly coded .avi file can’t be read and causes a CPU overload, slowing down the machine. Deleting the key prevents shmedia.dll from trying to read avi files. more via tweakxp.com