Saturday, March 8th, 2008
A new preview version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, with tabbed browsing, an integrated search box, and RSS support--all features long taken for granted by Firefox users--is now available. The Beta 2 preview of version 7 also sports a much more compact and streamlined interface than that of the current IE, ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
A Trojan horse has been sent to e-mail addresses disguised as a message from Helsinki, Finland, antivirus software vendor F-Secure, the company said in a statement.
F-Secure said that an unknown attacker sent out thousands of infected e-mail messages crafted so that they appear to be from a nonexistent F-Secure employee, ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Stop cleaning your glasses - you read that title right. There is a way now to surf the web with absolute, unbreakable safety. It is very simple to do.
A few months ago, VMware Inc. decided to release a free virtual machine player. What this program does is pretend to be ...
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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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