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Posted by: ator1940 (Thursday 12 November 2009, 3:57 AM)

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I never thought of it like this before, and I guess that explains all the viruses, trojans, adware, and malware over running the world's computer systems. Sure is a good thing we have someone like Mr. Schmidt to set us straight, because all this time I had it backward. Fancy that.

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