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No one wants to become a victim of identity theft. It is no exaggeration to say that your life can be ruined, temporarily at least, by the illegal use of your personal information. As the economy continues to deteriorate, it is inevitable that more and more people will turn to some sort of criminal activity, and one of the easiest ways to do this is to steal someone else's identity. If an identity thief gains access to your credit card numbers, social security number, or bank account number, he or she can use these apply for credit cards or loans in your name. Payday loans, charging exorbitant rates of interest, can be taken out in your name as well. While it is possible to straighten out this fraud, the time and money involved, not to mention the emotional stress attendant on attempting to reclaim your life.

Although LifeLock is considered a leader in the identity protection industry, Identity Guard Total Protection can also offer you a strong protection against identity theft. Undoubtedly one of the biggest benefits to Identity Guard Total Protection is the fact that the 3 main credit reporting bureaus will be monitored on a daily basis to see whether there has been any activity on your account. You will also have access, on an unlimited basis, to your credit scores, which is not offered with LifeLock.

Besides the usual features offered by LifeLock and most other identity protection companies, such as help with a stolen or lost wallet or purse, Identity Guard Total Protection has a high-tech program designed to provide security for your computer. All of us use the internet on an almost daily basis, and there are many illegal programs designed to steal information right from your computer, without your even being aware of it. Identity Guard Total Protection provides software that will protect your computer in several ways - Zone Alarm firewall is provided as a first line of defense, but you will also receive programs that will protect you from virus infiltration and spyware.

Keyloggers obtain names, addresses, credit card numbers, etc. by stealing these when you type them onto a website. This can happen with completely legitimate websites, the keyloggers are able to take this information as it travels between you and the site you are visiting. Identity Guard Total Protection will provide you with software to help prevent this from happening in the first place. Your keystrokes will be encrypted every time you use your computer.

Another nice feature of Identity Guard Total Protection is the Mobile Lockbox that comes with the subscription. This is a safe and secure spot to store your personal and financial data, and you can retrieve any of this information not only from your computer, but also from your mobile phone or PDA.

A difference between LifeLock and Identity Guard Total Protection is the difference in handling identity theft once it does occur. Although Identity Guard Total Protection is probably ahead of LifeLock in preventing and the fast detection of identity theft, LifeLock is superior in the way it handles the theft. Both services back up their guarantee with a $1,000,000 fund to provide investigators and lawyers, but Identity Guard Total Protection does not do the recovery work itself - that will be up to you. You will be reimburses by Identity Guard for your expenses. LifeLock does actively assist with the recovery of your identity. LifeLock, on the other hand, will do the actual hiring of professionals needed to recover your identity.

Both of these identity protection services have much to offer, and the cost of Identity Guard Total Protection, $17.99 per month, is not far from LifeLock Command Center, which costs $14.99 monthly. As both of these companies have much to offer, you will have to decide if the preventive measures employed by Identity Guard Total Protection will benefit you more than the assistance that will be provided by LifeLock in even of identity theft.

Greg McKeon is an expert on identity protection services after having been victimized in 2007. He is also a contributing writer for the consumer identity theft blog, IDProtectionGuide.net where you can read independent analysis of services including a detailed lifelock review.

The Deadly Possibility of Birth Control Patches

The availability of birth control has become one of the great revolutions of the 20th century, giving women a concrete way to prevent unwanted pregnancies. They are considered critical components of any reasonable attempt at birth control, even if they have possible side effects. Being products that rely on the manipulation and alteration of baseline hormone levels in the female body, birth control pills and patches can cause side effects that are unpleasant. However, there have been a multitude of supposedly anecdotal reports, all of which are known to be unconfirmed, that birth control patches can be lethal.

This idea stems from a chain message being spread via e-mail. The message speaks of a certain              Dr. Nicole Dishuk McKeon, who apparently died because of blood clots that were caused by her birth control patches. The story goes on to say that the hormones introduced or altered by the patches caused the lethal blood clots. The story does not directly specify which patch does this, but from the description, it was one that prevented a woman from having more than three menstrual periods within a year. Supposedly, there were multiple clots that were causing undue pressure on her brain, eventually killing her. The story explains that while surgery was used to remove the initial clots, the hormone tampering done by the patch kept the clots coming.

The story, for all the detail it contains, subtly lacks the most important details. Aside from claims in the message that birth control was involved, there are actually no indications that this is the case. In fact, the story itself is fairly neutral, providing no evidence on whether or not she was using patches. The story also conveniently omits her family's medical history and her own, so there is no indication of whether or not she was at any increased risk for strokes and blood clots. Even if she was using a patch, there is no evidence to suggest that it was an actual factor in her death beyond the speculation presented at the end of the message. For the most part, the people that did the investigating found that a Dr. Nicole McKeon did die, but medical history confidentiality laws prevented them from finding out more.

There may be some truth to the story, however. Just recently, a woman named Katherine Thoren was reported to have died due to blood clots that caused agonizing headaches. According to doctors, the blood clots were aggravated by the hormones in her body introduced by a birth control patch. They did not mention whether or not the clots were caused by the path themselves, but some experts have noted that this is likely not the case. Doctors, however, have admitted that Thoren is just another in a number of women who face an increased risk of death because of the hormones found in the patches. The blood clot should have been survivable under normal circumstances, doctors argue, but the hormones had effectively tripled the risk.

While the Food and Drug Administration proclaims the patches to be as safe as the pills, medical evidence and statistics show that the pills have not been known to increase fatality risks for blood clots. According to the most recent findings, only the patches have managed to have this effect. The pharmaceutical companies behind the patch, along with the FDA, believe that there is no evidence pointing to increased risk, but some doctors are shocked that the patches were ever approved. Nonfatal blood clots were reported to have increased because of the patches, with a risk of them becoming fatal if they occurred in the wrong part of the body, or at the wrong time.

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Are anyone out there Nancy McKeon fans?

Nancy McKeon is JO, the actress from facts of life? r

She was always my favorite. She went on to make some decent TV movies over the years, She was on a TV series not long ago. I can't remember the name.

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