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Bugs and Fixes: How to Spot Virus Hoaxes a Mile Off Bogus warnings can hurt more than real viruses. Here's how to detect them. |
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Send This Column to 1,000 Friends... Our Net Debunking Unit sorts through four common email hoaxes stuffing your inbox. |
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Copy This Article & Win Quick Cash! Is Bill Gates offering big bucks to track your email? On the trail of the most forwarded hoax in Internet history. |
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The World's Worst Viruses Check out our list of nasty computer viruses -- and find out how to save your PC from infection. |
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February 13, 2002
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October 1, 2001
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January 28, 2002
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The Mind Games Cybercrooks Play Hackers are exploiting psychological vulnerabilities to gain access to your data. |
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Toss That IRS Email, Please! Phony notes from a bogus taxman could leave you poorer. With third parties representing the IRS in some collection matters, there is little doubt that there will be rogue emails trying to fleece consumers. |
Salon.com
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September 15, 2004
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Norton vs. McAfee: Top Antivirus Apps Square Off The best antivirus apps distinguish themselves by adding features outside the ordinary, features that give them additional power against attack by viruses, worms, or Trojans. |
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Yahoo, Microsoft Ally to Tackle Lottery Scams With the threat of online scams rising as economic woes worsen, Yahoo and Microsoft look to clamp down on e-mail lottery hoaxes. |
AskMen.com
August 1, 2001
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Keep Your Computer Virus-Free Call the doctor and head for the hospital: you've just been infected by a computer virus that's erasing your entire hard drive, as you speak. It's time to protect yourself before this happens, and take the necessary steps to make your computer virus-free... |
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Investment Advice for Deposed Despots Email scams from fake foreign officials are still a potent Internet problem. Here are some tips to help you avoid being a victim of these Nigerian 4-1-9 scams. |
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April 2004
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Computer Virus Protection Simply having virus protection software on your institution's computer system doesn't guarantee safety and security. Instead, protection and prevention is a team effort between the users and the anti-virus software. Includes a list of useful websites. |
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January 2002
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Green Eggs & Scam Small businesses that may not have protective procedures are popular targets for fraud. A description of 17 business scams--from telephone trickery to Web wrongdoing--to avoid at all costs. |
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