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Last week some kind of virus or Trojan horse or some damned fucking thing disabled my computer at home (the one I'm using right now). All I know is that I was at work when it happened, and my wife was on the computer. I, of course, I'm not the type of guy... ...full story at Kyklops

from Kyklops on Mon, Nov 02 2009

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