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 Not really, but Gmail does offer a nice way to have as many temp accounts as you feel like creating. This is great for registering at sites that might end up spamming you.Let's say I have a Gmail account of username@gmail.com. Gmail lets you append a "+" at the end ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008 These days, a firewall, anti-virus software and anti-spyware programs are essential, but they might not be enough to protect you. Here are five things you can do for a little added security:Leave your computer on.This is a change from an earlier recommendation that you turn it off to save ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008 Yahoo is playing host to thousands of phishing sites and doesn't have sufficiently well-trained staff to address the problem of online fraud, according to a leading anti-spam and security organisation on Tuesday.Richard Cox, chief information officer of Spamhaus, told an audience of politicians, security experts and law enforcement officials that ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008 So says the Radicati Group, which Wednesday released preliminary results of a survey showing that it's bad behavior on the part of users -- us, in other words -- driving the spam and virus threat.And you thought it was spammers and hackers."Frankly, it surprised us that users ...
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