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Summary: Could the mass media hype about computer viruses actually make the problem worse? If you believe what you hear in the media, there are an awful lot of viruses going around. No, I’m not talking about the make-you-sick kind of virus, though they get plenty of airtime, too. I’m talking about the kind of virus that enters via your internet connection rather than your nasal passages. What the mainstream media often don’t tell you–at least, in most radio and television newscasts and in the crucial headlines and opening paragraphs of newspaper articles– is...

Whether you have learned your lesson from a past experience with a nasty computer virus or have been pressing your luck by surfing the web and downloading various files or opening those email messages sent to you by people you dont know without any real understanding of just how vulnerable you really are each time you log onto your computer you now have the opportunity to discover what steps you can take to avoid such an annoying and many times destructive infestation. Listed below are some of the guidelines you can follow in order to keep those nasty viruses from making a mess out of y...

In recent days, I was one of the unfortunate persons to receive the “Mydoom” worm emails. Not just one, but at least forty appeared in my popserver mailbox. As frustrating as it was deleting all of these nasty little boogers, I realized that some of these “worm” emails even came from persons I knew – or so I thought I knew. The problem with the “Mydoom” email worm is that it specifically targets email addresses with the following extensions: * .htm * .sht * .php * .asp * .dbx * .tbb * .adb * .pl * .wab * .txt Furthermore, it sends “get”...