Oct 3, 2001 | security, software
Last year’s version of Norton Antivirus was a fine piece of work – easy to use, easy to keep updated, and way ahead of the mish-mash of products put out by Mcafee. But it had a couple of problems: its method of scanning e-mail was clumsy and frequently...
Sep 27, 2001 | news, Politics, security
One of the pieces of legislation being reviewed to deal with terrorism would permit Internet surveillance without a court order. The scope of that surveillance was debated at a Congressional committee meeting on Tuesday. The bill’s advocates argue that...
Sep 14, 2001 | mail, news, security
The World Trade Center disaster has already generated a tremendous amount of e-mail spam and chain letters. As this article points out, you can count on a lot of hoaxes to be disseminated by e-mail in the next few weeks. Exercise a high degree of caution before you...
Sep 9, 2001 | IE, security
Internet security is the buzzword of the moment. There’s a lot of paranoia about privacy these days. Some of it is justified. For what it’s worth, I tend to think that cookies do not currently deserve much paranoia. There are hypothetical ways in which...
