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  1. #1
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    After getting a computer virus a few weeks ago (the 1st time in the 4 years that I've had this computer), I don't think I would trust anything like this. So my answer is a big NO!
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    The clock of life is wound but once and no man has the power
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    I have found that is very safe. I have never 'caught' anything from them. I have from a few other sites, I have some software that lets me trace those things. I just wanted to know what other people do with their spare time - that is if there is any because being on PT can take up most of it

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    Once I spoke the language of the flowers,

    Once I understood each word the caterpillar said,

    Once I smiled in secret at the gossip of the starlings,

    And shared a conversation with the housefly

    in my bed.

    Once I heard and answered all the questions

    of the crickets,

    And joined the crying of each falling dying

    flake of snow,

    Once I spoke the language of the flowers. . . .

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  3. #3
    I used BOINC at one time, but I only did a little more than nothing with SETI@Home. On a slightly related note, I used Folding@Home far more, and I'm on the Ubuntu F@H team.

    In other news, I very highly doubt you could catch anything from a distributed computing program, unless the upstream computers are infected, but that is also extremely unlikely, as (I think) they all run Linux or some form of Unix.


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