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Consider my septuagenarian father-in-law Exhibit A in the battle against spyware- the malicious software that operates on a computer without the user's informed consent. This past holiday season, I emailed him a link to the Apple Store, so that he could buy his beloved son an iTunes...
Spyware usually gets onto a user's computer by hiding behind other software downloaded from the Internet. "The first ones we saw were attached to end-user license agreements,"says David Perry of Trend Micro, a computer security services provider with a presence in 26 countries. "You were unwittingly agreeing...
Of course the best cure, in computing as in health, is prevention-stopping the stuff from ever being installed on your system. The National Cyber Security Alliance recommends that all computer users have a secure firewall, anti-virus and anti-spyware protection. And yet an alliance study, conducted last December...
And to Google's credit, there are companies that have made far worse bargains in China and haven't got half the public spanking for it. In December the Chinese government took offense at the contents of a blog hosted by Microsoft's MSN service. Microsoft promptly clamped it shut...
You've seen this movie a dozen times. In Firewall, of course, it's 2006, and it is not cumbersome old cash the bad guys are looking for. They want electronic transfers. This means that their banker-victim is not a middle manager but Jack Stanfield (Harrison Ford), the top...