The US Government uses Norton. I was required to install that on every system that an Air Force contracted company worked with. They would also set up a local update for every week and it was fuly tested before it was released into the local servers. If one of the programs had problems with Norton, the whole company wouldn't be impacted suddenly. In any case, Fidelity Investments also had a special custom made virus scanner program (F Prot) that was updated every week and and sometimes even more often. If you use Windows XP, be sure to download the latest SP3. I don't use Internet Explorer 7, as I feel that version 6 is just fine. Here, I hate I.E. and actually use one of the older Netscape versions, which seem to hate a few web sites. Trojans are a bit less damaging today, if you keep up on Java Script, malware updates and the MS web site for the latest OS software patches. I avoid Vista like a plague! Many newer systems today can't even go back to XP due to the lack of support for older XP drivers and the like. When Vista arrived, it took about 4-6 months for some hardware companies (printers, video boards, etc.) to come out with proper drivers. Usually if you have a choice to 'save to disk' or run after download, you choose save to disk. Create a folder for these downloads and then scan that folder to see if the files that were downloaded are valid and have no traces of possible viruses. Believe it or not, the MAC was the first home computer to get viruses. PC problems came later, but have been much worse in recent years. Luckily, some ISP companies offer free antivirus software, like McAfee. Interesting to note, McAfee, for sveral years, has been owned by Symantec who also make Norton. Maybe someday things will settle down, but you always have to be careful, especially if you see an unfamiliar popup telling you that you have a virus and to 'click here' to find out more info. Thats a sure sign of a mean virus being allowed ont your system. Its always a good idea to make a full back up once each week, and to have at least two backups dating back more than 2 weeks. Today, a terabyte hard drive is less than $100, so many backups can be sent to a huge drive like that.

My favorite sweet potato pie of all time... From The Huffington Post/LIZ SMITH/11/20/2012 "So, once again, we will reprint an alternative, the famous Pink Teacup café's recipe for a dessert that looks just about the same as pumpkin. At the Teacup, they always offered sweet potato pie and here is the recipe:" 2 lbs. yams ý cup of butter 1 teaspoon cinnamon ü teaspoon ginger ý teaspoon salt ü teaspoon nutmeg 2 tablespoons white sugar 1 cup brown sugar 3 large eggs, separated ý cup orange juice 1 tablespoon grated orange rind ý cup of evaporated milk Peel and boil yams until mashable. Add butter, spices, salt, sugar to hot yams. Beat until light and smooth. Beat egg yolks until light and add to mixture. Stir in orange juice, orange rind and milk. Beat egg whites until stiff and fold in. Pour mixture into unbaked pie shell. Preheat oven to 350 and bake 35 minutes or until the pie puffs up and is firm in the middle. Cool on a rack. Add whipped cream. "Then, dig in, pilgrims! You'll have something that resembles pumpkin pie but is a thousand times better tasting and easy to make once you assemble the ingredients. Is it fattening? Sure, but Thanksgiving only comes once a year." "I have been giving this recipe annually for 50 years. People stop me on the streets of New York and ask me for it or about it. So, consider this a public service. And I've given you a few days time to work on this dessert, which is really easy to concoct even if you are not a chef." I never did make it to the Pink Tea Cup before it closed...wish I had.

From the videos, it appears that yuca is the same as yucca. I love yucca, but I had not seen it spelled yuca, and so that threw me off. There are some definite health benefits from yucca root - one of which is that it will alleviate pain from tendinitis, although only temporarily. This is an old Native American remedy, and I noticed it when I was eating yucca root at a Brazilian restaurant in Culver City. Pills made from yucca root do not work, but fresh yucca does. I'm still confused as to whether yuca and yucca are the same or not.

Duplicate post. Replies are in the other thread. (I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often on this new system.)