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Windows 7 Release Candidate has been available on bit torrents and to a small group of testers for several days now, but the official release and download from Microsoft was just made available today for widespread distribution.

You can find the full version in 32 bit or 64 bit here.

Now is a great opportunity for you to familiarize yourself with what looks to be an extremely potent and capable operating system. Be sure you read up on the system requirements before making the leap. Remember, this is not a full release and only serious techies should consider it for their fulltime OS. If you just want to see what all the hype is about, you may wish to consider running the OS in a "Virtual Machine". It's a great way to test out the new OS while leaving your existing system unchanged.

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Now that the news media and computer security firms have managed to stir the entire computing world into an almost out of control frenzy, what's really going on?  The dreaded Conficker evolution of April 1 was, for most US users, a big yawn right up there with the feared Y2K meltdown.  That is not to say you have nothing to fear and there is no danger of your computer becoming infected with this or some other form of malware.

There's good and bad to come from both the Conficker and Y2K hype.  On the upside, any news that heightens awareness among computer users of their computing environment and the potential dangers and methods used by the bad guys is a good thing.  The downside is, anytime an event is so overly hyped, it's easy to become complacent when nothing bad happens in our immediate little universe.

I've talked about dangers of fake Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware products in the past.  I mention this because it appears the underlying plan of Conficker's payload is to ultimately sucker you into the same kind of trap.  Security firm Trend Micro says some machines have recently been updated  with fake antivirus software in an apparent attempt by Conficker's authors to profit from their massive botnet.

Consider yourself warned, if you receive ANY messages on screen from anything other than your already installed security solution claiming your computer is infected, it could be Conficker, or any of the many other rogue programs out there designed to make your computing life hell while extorting your money.

If you suspect your computer may be infected, don't wait and wonder, contact the St. George PC Doctor today.

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See this link for a great collection of Conficker detection and removal tools.

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