Saturday, March 8th, 2008
If the antivirus software installed on your mail server is set up to bounce emails with viruses attached, please turn that feature off. Unless you've been in a cave for the past week, you know that tens of millions -possibly hundreds of millions- of emails carrying the sobig.f virus have ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Developed when the Internet was used almost exclusively by academics, the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, or SMTP, assumes that you are who you say you are.
SMTP makes that assumption because it doesn't suspect that you're sending a Trojan horse virus, that you're making fraudulent pleas for money from the relations ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Author: Mark Horrell @ www.markhorrell.com
The Google Dance is the name given to the behaviour observed by the Google search engine during the monthly period when it updates its index.
Because the traffic to Google is vast, numbering hundreds of millions of queries a day to some 3 ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Unsolicited e-mails now infuriatingly clutter many inboxes, just as paper junk mail buried many a front door map. But is smart technology set to save us from spam? To us humans, spam is very easy to spot.
Unfortunately to your computer one e-mail message looks very like another. ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
"Pop-up and pop-under ads open a new window when people visit many popular Web sites, often littering the computer desktop with multiple browser screens. Advertisers hope people will visit the promoted Web page by clicking anywhere on the window, although many simply close it by selecting the "X" box in ...
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