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Overture and Gator

Several companies that have contacted PC Pitstop are puzzled how they could be associated with Gator when they honestly don’t believe their company does business with Gator Corporation. Our first thought was that there was simply someone else in the organization responsible for advertising through the Gator Advertising Information Network (GAIN), or perhaps that a third-party ad agency they hired was responsible for placing Gator advertising. (For example, adware has caused concern for companies such as Toyota.) However, we have found another way that many companies may unwittingly be advertising on Gator through its partnership with Overture and the Search Scout feature.

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Why Defragment Your Hard Drive?

When you first loaded files onto your new hard disk, they weren’t fragmented. Each whole file followed the last in consecutive disk clusters, lowest to highest. Your disk performance was never better.

When you began using those files — changing them, adding and deleting records and files — they were broken into smaller and smaller pieces scattered around the disk. That’s because your system writes each new record into the first empty slot it finds on the disk, even if it’s nowhere near the rest of the file.

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July 2003 Newsletter

Security Alert: What’s Running When You Power Up?
Updated Disk Health Now Provides Detailed Analysis
Anti-Spam Tip: Eliminate Annoying Messenger Popups
Spyware and Adware Gets Court’s Blessing
Expert Tip: Make Windows Tell You Everything
PC Pitstop Cures Cancer and Finds Alien Life
Performance Tip: Max Out Your Disk Speed

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