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Video nasty, adware nastier say experts of Guardian.co.uk ad
News Steven Cox, principal security consultant at CA, said too few end users read the terms and conditions when signing up for such adware and expressed concerns that many may be children, despite being presented with a tick-box which asks users to... [14 Aug 2006]
Avoid Vista until 2008, business users told
News Small organisations may find Microsoft's disk encryption and device management good enough out of the box but large enterprises will need more management features, leaving room for third parties, he said: "Companies that can focus on manageability... [08 May 2006]
Gmail to thwart phishing with a big red box
News When a Gmail user opens a suspected phishing message, the software displays a large red dialogue box stating: "Warning: This message may not be from whom it claims to be. The company's help pages say that "the more spam you mark, the better our... [05 Apr 2005]
If you thought pop-ups couldn't get any more annoying...
News Advertisers hope people will visit the promoted web page by clicking anywhere on the window, although many simply close it by selecting the 'X' box in the top-right corner. Pop-up ads, already the bane of millions of web surfers, are set to become... [23 Dec 2002]
Spam doesn't kill appetite for email
News Those people were also the most likely to check their in-box several times an hour, and many said they spend two hours a day dealing with email. By Lisa M. Bowman Spam hasn't killed enthusiasm for email among US workers, according to a new study on... [09 Dec 2002]
AOL blocks Messenger spam
News The text-only messages pop up in a dialog box on top of any other window being used at the time. In a move quickly discovered by spammers, the AOL Time Warner subsidiary made a few technical changes last week to stop a relatively new type of... [26 Nov 2002]
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