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1• How to detect and remove spyware

By Andy Walker. Arm yourself with the knowledge and the tools to protect yourself from spyware's malicious work.

2• Stand up against hijackers

By Andy Walker. Finding that your home page has been hijacked is frustrating.

3• Back Orifice Trojan horse explained

By Andy Walker. True to the historical version, a Trojan horse can attack your computer without your realizing anything's going wrong.

4•  How to remove unwanted pop-up ads

By Andy Walker. Stop spying software from installing without permission.

5• How to clean out Internet files

By Andy Walker. Cookies aren't just delicious snacks anymore.

6• Linus Torvalds' double life

By Andy Walker. Andy Walker catches up with Linux Torvalds in 2000 and talks to him about the operating system that changed his life and the computing world.

7• Lost your Windows XP password?

By Chris Ricci. New developments help ease the pain of the loss that used to be almost irreparable.

8• How to remove spyware

By Andy Walker. Has your computer started running slowly or just plain acting strange? You may have spyware.

9• Avira AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic AntiVirus

By Ted Gallardo. It is straightforward and easy-to-use and navigate, but it does tend to get lost from time to time.

10• More RAM can stop that grinding sound

By Jason Kerluck. Computer running slow? You can't get rid of any of the applications you've got installed because you need them all? Get yourself (and your computer) a tad more RAM.

11• Get rid of Internet debris

By Andy Walker. Internet files can clog your drive space.

12• Sometimes frightening virus warnings are just hoaxes.

By Andy Walker. Anyone who has emailed much at all has probably fallen prey to at least one emailed hoax.

13• How to protect yourself against the Love Bug

By Andy Walker. The Love Bug, a/k/a the "I Love You" virus, is one of the latest in an annoyingly persistent series of viruses with malicious payloads.

14• CA Anti-Spyware 2007: old friend's back

By Ted Gallardo. Its predecessor, eTrust PestPatrol, used to be more robust, but still, this application is one of the musts these days.

15• Better safe than sorry

By Chris Blackwell. The more we depend on computers, the more we depend on their security.

16• Responses to Back Orifice 2000

By Andy Walker. Hackers released Back Orifice 2000, and the good guys had a fix out within a few days.

17• Symantec responds to Trojan horses

By Andy Walker. Symantec, a major computer security vendor, has developed antidotes to Trojan horse infestations.

18• Use common sense to stay safe

By Chris Blackwell. With our dependence on computers growing in leaps and bounds, so should our awareness of risks that lurk behind the oh-so friendly facade.

19• Get used to employing safe-surfing habits

By Peter Ehm. The cyber-world is not as dangerous as the many headlines would make us believe, but it's still too dangerous to keep us entirely comfortable.



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