Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Want to know what's going on in someone's mind? Look at the words they enter in their favorite search engine. Fortunately, that information is private, right? Maybe not.
If you use Google, for instance, and are not blocking cookies, the search engine likely has placed a cookie on your system that ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Peter Shinbach recently threw in the towel and shut down Bach Door, his online-communications blog.The public relations executive from Birmingham, Michigan, was fed up with so-called comment spam. Returning from a weeklong vacation, he found a slew of comments on his blog that had nothing to do with communications: They ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
1. Thou shalt not buy merchandise found in pop-up ads or spam.
2. Thou shalt not post thy email address, phone number, address or social security number to the internet, nor shalt thou post anyone else's.
3. Thou shalt not forget to update thy Windows every second Tuesday.
4. Thou shalt not connect ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
In the last newsletter, I suggested creating a limited user account on your computer and using that to surf the internet. As a limited user, it becomes very difficult for malware to attack the browser and install itself. As it turns out, there is an even simpler way to do ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Microsoft has signed up three companies to add phishing monitoring and detection technology to its antiphishing filter in the MSN Search Toolbar and the upcoming release of Internet Explorer 7, and its SmartScreen e-mail filter, the company says.
The software vendor has also released the final version of its phishing filter ...
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