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Peer-to-peer file-sharing programs appear to be a godsend: they allow you to swap digital files with others who have the same file-sharing software. Thousands of people use peer-to-peer (often called P2P) programs to exchange music, videos, movies, games, and software. But P2P programs are seemingly synonymous with trouble.  |
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Most e-mail programs allow you to ask for Read Receipts when sending e-mail messages. However, two popular
Macintosh programs, Mail.app by Apple and Microsoft's Entourage, make no provision for sending or responding to
Read Receipt requests. For information on popular e-mail software programs that do have Read Receipt capabilities,
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Your browser may have a button on its toolbar called "AutoComplete." (It's called "AutoFill" on a Macintosh.) AutoComplete is a useful yet underutilized feature
which is available on most browsers. Its purpose is to save you time when filling out online forms when placing orders with online merchants. Rather than filling out
an order form each time you make an online purchase, browsers provide a place to store this information to then use as needed when placing an order. Here's how
to set up AutoComplete on your browser:  |
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If, as author Philip K. Dick wondered, robots dream of electronic sheep, their collectivist cyber-equivalents, botnets
live for the fleece. Used to enable or commit several types of fraud, including click fraud against PPC providers
such as Google, Yahoo and the host of smaller pay-per-click programs, botnets are proliferating across the
Internet at an alarming rate. The only thing matching the increase in criminal use of botnets is the increasing
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(The worm only infects Windows-based systems - not Macintosh, Unix, or Linux systems.) Also known as the W32/Sober.o@MM worm, this new variant of the Sober worm was first discovered on April 19, 2005, and includes a tricky Trojan horse feature. The text of the deceptive e-mail message promises the recipient a benefit if he/she opens the accompanying attachment but something quite different occurs when the attachment is opened.
Below is the exact text of an actual W32.Sober.N@mm e-mail worm currently circulating the Web:
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