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Design software maker Autodesk Inc. on Thursday raised its profit and sales guidance for the first and second quarters and full year of fiscal 2009. First-quarter earnings-per-share are expected to be between 37 cents and 38 cents. Previous guidance called for earnings between 35 cents and 37 cents per share.The company now expects revenue of between $590 million and $595 million, up from previous guidance of $575 million to $585 million.Forbes.com

In today’s news, Intel has released a new sibling of the 45nm family of Core 2 Quad processors: the Q9300 “Yorkfield” processor, which comes in at 2.5 GHz with a 1333 MHzfront side bus. The new chip breaks down like this: You get a faster front side bus, lower operating temperatures, and new SSE4.1 instruction sets. On the other hand, the L2 cache has been halved (6MB vs. the 12MB of higher-end quad-core CPUs). The gentlemen over at the End User blog, a new Amazon.com gadgets blog by its employees, report that testing proves that the smaller L2 cache still doesn’t hold the Q9300 back from beating its predecessor, the 65nm 2.4 GHz Q6600.ZDNET

Spyware is among the most prevalent PC annoyances I am aware of. It threats our online privacy, not only by monitoring our activity; but also by potentially collecting personal information such as passwords and transmitting them to unauthorized 3rd parties.Read the rest of this entry.

1.Adware
2.Trend Micro HijackThis
3.SpywareTerminator
4.SpywareBlaster
5.Spybot - Search & Destroy 1.5