Linux Magazine: The Man Who Saved Everything

"Fat Guy is a Windows user, just like most people that use a PC. So, it came as something of a surprise when one day he called me asking for help. (It seems I'm the resident computer expert among my group of friends and family.) The conversation went something like this:

"'I'm sick of getting all these goddamn viruses and spyware! Can't you do something? This is a Pentium 4 that's only two years old, and it's going as slow as a 286 from all the crap that's clogging it up!'..."

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