[H]ardNews 5th Edition

Spyware:

Anyone that works in Technology knows that Spyware can swamp your PC. The Big companies Dell, HP and a host of others that provide telephone support are very aware of the rising problem of spyware and its impact on their customers. I work in the telephone support side of a major company, and I can tell you that a large number of our calls deal directly with this issue.

Sometimes, the company that gets the complaint is rightly to blame. But with alarming frequency, officials at these and other technology companies say they are tracing customer problems back to one culprit: spyware.

Opera 7.60 Preview 2:

The second preview of Opera an alternate browser to EI is available for download. This is suspected to mean that the official release of 7.60 is well on its way. The current version 7.54 is available as the latest stable release.

Opera 7.60 Preview 2 for Windows is available for download.

Halloween Riot?:

It looks like police have their hands full this Halloween in Madison Wisconsin. I know our readers would never be involved in this kind of thing ;)

Madison police estimated the crowd peaked at around 75,000 shortly after midnight. A bit later, police said some people started throwing objects, taunting officers, lighting small fires and starting fights.

The Origin of All Hallow's Eve:

Here is a article giving some information on the origins of Halloween. I never knew the exactly where Halloween came from but I always loved the candy!

Halloween began as an old Celtic custom, over 2000 years ago.