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How Not To Get Hooked By A Phishing Scam

First of all, for those of you unfamiliar with the term, "Phishing" is a high-tech scam that uses spam or pop-up messages to deceive you into disclosing your credit card numbers, bank account information, Social Security number, passwords, or other ...

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What is a security certificate

I'll bet one time or another you've surfed the web and suddenly found a pop-up window in front of you, demanding your approval for a security certificate. I occasionally see these on shopping sites, usually the smaller, less-well-funded com...

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How Safe Is Your DATA

What would you do if you switched your computer ontomorrow morning, only to see an error message and to findthat some of your important files had become corrupted? Youmay no longer be able to open some files - or, even worse,files might have gone mis...

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Fighting SPAM!

Junk email is estimated to have grown about 42% during 2001,with the seemingly non-stop invasion of X-rated email, scamoffers from Nigeria, drugs and other such unwanted intrusions.Analysts predict that the volume of email on the Internet, most of it...

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Spam Poison Pill

A common way for spammers to create their vast lists of email addresses isto cull web pages for "mailto:" tags. There are many different programs,available for small to huge costs, which will do this automatically, easilyand efficiently.I monitor my ...

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Spam Spasms & Spamocidal Mania

Below is a letter I wrote to the following organizations:S.H.U. (Spam-Haters Unanimous)N.A.A.P.W.H.S. (National Association for the Advancement ofPeople Who Hate Spam)P.W.H.P.W.D.H.S. (People Who Hate People Who Don't HateSpam)P.F.W.S.H.I.A.L.C....

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Migrate to ASP.NET

If your business develops solutions in ASP, you could significantly cut your development time and improve the quality, security and performance of your applications by migrating to.NET. This article outlines some of the main benefits of this new tech...

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Speak Freely - Voice-Over-IP Taking Root

Years ago, I tried to convince my parents, who lived about three hours away from me, to install a program called PGPfone on their computer so they could call me online for free (as a bonus, it was encrypted, so nobody could eavesdrop on their lecturi...

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Spyware 101: Understanding and Fighting Spyware

Spyware 101: Understanding and Fighting SpywareDoug Partridge © 2005In a short amount of time, Spyware has gone from relative obscurity to an almost daily mention. In fact, recent estimates put the number of Spyware infections at 80-90% of all c...

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The Internet - Life Without It

The Internet - Life Without It by: John Sheridan For seven days this month, my Internet connection ceased to be; apparently (according to the engineer) because the cable-modem box thingy gave up the ghost. Seven whole days with no link to the ou...

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