Yahoo I have just added Yahoo to my list as my favorite search engine - besides providing relevant search results, they consistently rank the pages of my sites much higher on their lists than google's messed up ranking formula'. I'm often in the top 10 - depending on the search sting used! I also find that little 'open result in new window' link to be very convenient.

Americans for Legal Immigration - an absolute MUST site to visit to keep up to date on what ILLEGALs and their supporters are up to.

Privacy.net will tell you all sorts of stuff about you and your computer, starting with you IP number. You may be surprised at what a trail you probably leave.

Gibson Research is a very informative site about spyware and other things.

Here's one for all of you BonziBuddies out there, so that you can learn about all of those resource-sucking, spyware monsters that you have unknowingly befriended and infected your computer with. Educate yourselves.

PC Magazine rates BonziBuddy as a 'Moderate' nuisance/danger level of spyware. It gathers information on browsing habits - and ofcourse, phones home with this info. The talking purple gorilla recommends sites similiar to ones the user is browsing. The application slows some computer systems and can cause the dreaded blue screen of death. It can be intentionally downloaded, or silently installed with other software.

Lavasoft is another spyware site.

Central Command for a free online virus scan.

Housecall Antivirus's Free online virus scan.

W3schools a great, free online educational reference concerning web sites and how to code them.

CodeGuru is a great site with a wealth of information, especially about Visual C++ and Visual Basic.

AdAware - a free program to help you rid your computer of ad tracking maleware.

SpyBot S&D - SpyBot Search & Destroy is a freeware utility to search for and help you destroy/uninstall spyware that you have probably unknowingly loaded your computer with.

Web Attack has great freeware. Click on 'Freeware' at the top menu. Nothing that I have downloaded has had any spyware embedded in it, unlike so many free downloads that pay for themselves by selling space in the program to trojan spyware.

Pricelessware has a plethora of freeware to download. Their written policy is to assure you that none of their downloads contain any sort of spyware, adware, backdoors, trojans, ad-trojan worms, browser hijackers, or any of the other malware out there.

Cheapbytes sells Linux CDs at very affordable prices, so that you do not have to tie up your dial-up connection for 48 straight hours downloading 600 mega byte linux files. However, I must admit that lately I have found the Linux CDs I want cheaper on Ebay.

Whois is a place where you can look up and see who owns the IP numbers of all of those hack attempts that your firewall is blocking. If you're not running a correctly configured firewall, well, enjoy your trojans and backdoors.

USPS Zip Code Lookup - Nope - this is not a 'favorite', just a very useful site when you gotta have that zip.

www.mortgage-calc.com - Nope - this is not a 'favorite' either, just an interesting site with numerous financial calculators.

Ellis Island Records - Did your family come here thru Ellis Island - the legal way? If so, try to look them up.

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