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May 2005
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It's Time to Update Your Internet Security Arsenal Every tool you need to secure your Windows PC is free on the Internet. Here's where they are. |
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July 27, 2006
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Kazaa Settles Up Kazaa agreed to pay a reported $100 million to the trade organizations representing the international music industry. |
PC Magazine
February 3, 2004
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IM and P2P Security The explosion of IM and P2P in the workplace can be a security nightmare. Here's how to keep your network--and your company--safe. |
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March 2, 2004
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P2P Problems Peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing networks are having more problems than just dramatic declines in download numbers. |
PC World
June 2004
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Bigger Threats, Better Defense Tests of 16 security tools, including firewalls, antivirus software, and anti-spyware programs, that aim to foil worms, viruses, spies, and hackers. |
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P2Ps Still Dominate Downloads While productive uses of P2P are possible, illegal music and movie and music downloads are still the most common uses of P2P applications. |
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January 3, 2002
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March 4, 2004
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Lindows Grabs BitTorrent By The Bit Figuring they can save money using peer-to-peer technology (P2P), alternative operating system developers Lindows is giving customers 50 percent discounts if they download using BitTorrent. |
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Tweak Windows XP SP2 Security to Your Advantage Fine-tune the settings in Microsoft's recently released Windows XP Service Pack 2. |
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How Hackers Hack The tricks hackers use, and what you can do to foil them... |
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Who Really Controls Your PC? Increasingly, a phantom army of marketers, hackers, and virus writers does... |
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November 14, 2002
Michelle Madigan |
Copyright Cops Target Workplace, Schools Music industry renews piracy fight with correspondence and courts, while colleges and companies consider their liability. |
PC Magazine
November 25, 2003 |
File Sharers, Beware With most popular file-sharing services, you could be sharing more than you think. We tell you how to stay safe. |
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August 3, 2004 |
Keep Your PC Safe Learn to wield your firewall, antivirus, and antispyware tools expertly; don't give up your PC without a fight. |
InternetNews
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Kazaa to Continue Court Fight Down Under The peer to peer file-swapping service Kazaa loses a major round in legality of business model in Australia. |
PC World
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Ultimate Network Security: How to Install a Firewall Everything you need to know about selecting and installing a firewall for your PC or network. |
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Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer ITunes demonstrates that to compete effectively against free p2p networks, online digital distribution must deliver experiences to consumers that cannot be easily matched by decentralized, self-sustained peer-to-peer networks. |
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June 2004
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Not-So-Good Fellas Keep the bad guys at bay with these steps to improve your company's computer security. You can also try out these resources and Web sites for secure computing. |
PC World
April 2001
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Is Your PC Safe From the Enemy Within? Does your firewall have a hole in it? New updates fix a potentially disastrous flaw... |
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June 2002
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Disasterware? Most shareware is great, but bad apps can hurt a PC. Here's what readers say -- and what to do... |
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May 14, 2005
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7 Myths About Network Security While hacker tools are growing more sophisticated and automated, many organizations have a false sense of security about their own data and networks. Take a look at these security myths to see if your data is as secure as you think it is. |
PC Magazine
July 16, 2003
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Free Music Services The threat of lawsuits is not turning users off from file sharing, however. In fact, it may be driving users to seek out anonymous services. |
PC World
November 2003
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The Great American Privacy Makeover An exclusive PC World survey reveals that even savvy Web users can do more to safeguard their privacy and data. Take the quiz and find out how vulnerable you are; then use our tips to improve your score. |
PC World
November 2003
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Privacy Watch: Make Sure Your Firewall Is Sturdy Test your firewall to find out if it has any holes -- and then plug them up. |
Wired
February 2003
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The Race to Kill Kazaa The servers are in Denmark. The software is in Estonia. The domain is registered Down Under, the corporation on a tiny island in the Pacific. The 60 million users are everywhere around the world. The next Napster? Think bigger. And pity the poor copyright cops trying to pull the plug. |
PC World
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Kazaa Download Offers Unexpected Feature Users may be surprised to learn that application includes software that turns your PC into part of a distributed supercomputer... |
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Windows: Security Is Suddenly Job One By attacking some of the worst security problems in Windows, Windows XP Service Pack 2 could save you a lot of trouble. Bite the bullet and install it -- the sooner the better. |
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PC Security in the Zone ZoneAlarm Pro 3 protects your PC from hackers and blocks ads, cookies, and spyware... |
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P2P Group Accuses Music Industry of Smut Smear File sharing trade association tells Congress facts don't support claims of rampant P2P pornography. |
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July 11, 2002
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P2P's Powerful Promise Systems management remains difficult, but the payoff is getting teraflop computing from a sea of commodity PCs. Just ask Entelos and Novartis. |
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Internet Tips: Lock Out Internet Pests, Lock In Network Security Enhance your wireless network's security; safely share files; block spam in Outlook cooperatively. |
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The parasite economy There's a new software business model in town -- symbiotic plug-ins that pay for the privilege of piggybacking on the hot download of the moment... |
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January 12, 2005
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The New Internet First came the Boom. Then came the Bust. And when the dust cleared, the Internet found itself in a bit of a rut. In the nineties, as countless users logged on to the Internet for the first time. |
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The Pirates Among Us The entertainment industry is battling the illegal distribution of copyrighted music and movie files -- and will stop at nothing to enlist your help. |
PC Magazine
October 1, 2004
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Personal Firewall--Don't Surf Without It To gauge the effectiveness of two popular firewall packages, we took the gloves off and attacked the firewall process using techniques available to a malicious program. McAfee Personal Firewall Plus 6.0... Norton Personal Firewall 2005... |
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Business Security Our buying guide sorts out the technologies and explains the best ways to protect yourself. |
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Not Just for Music Anymore Napster's revolution begins to sing a business melody... |
PC Magazine
February 2, 2005
Gottesman & Karagiannis |
A False Sense of Security Only 85 percent of the AOL/NCSA survey respondents were running antivirus software. Worse, while 71 percent of those people thought they were updating their protection at least weekly (including automatic updates), barely half of them actually were. |
PC Magazine
February 1, 2008
Matthew D. Sarrel |
Unified Threat Management A single interface to protect your network makes good sense. |
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Frank Thorsberg |
Does Your PC Harbor Zombies Waiting to Attack? Unprotected broadband connections can leave your PC open to raids by malicious hackers... |
The Motley Fool
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Why the Decline in Downloading? The Pew Internet Project's report on online file swapping doesn't tell the whole story. |
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The Morpheus Incident How corporate squabbles could stifle the Web... |
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August 5, 2002
Kim Zetter |
Trojan Horse Technology Exploits IE Researchers show a tool that could admit hackers by pretending to be a trusted Microsoft application. |
PC World
December 2005
Stuart J. Johnston |
Windows Bug Allows Repeat Invasions Microsoft recently released a Security Advisory for a Firewall quirk... Avoid a fake Google site... A problem with Windows updates... Fix Wi-Fi router problems... |
InternetNews
October 21, 2005
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P2P Outfit in False Ad Pinch The Federal Trade Commission won a temporary court order earlier this week to rein in the advertising practices of an Internet operation claiming "file-sharing is 100 percent legal." |
