Social Issues

Magazine articles on the internet's impact on society, privacy, spam, hacking, scams, regulation.

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PC Magazine November 25, 2003	File Sharers, Beware With most popular file-sharing services, you could be sharing more than you think. We tell you how to stay safe.
PC Magazine November 25, 2003	Under Attack! If you're not running software to protect your PC, you should be! We test 12 products that will protect your PC and those with which it shares cyberspace.
PC Magazine November 4, 2003 John Dvorak	Spam Reveals All A look at spam for insight into social trends.
CIO November 1, 2003 Alice Dragoon	Be a Spam Slayer The ubiquitous awfulness of spam affords CIOs a rare opportunity to look good. Here's how CIOs can leap into the spam fray and keep e-mail viable and valuable for users.
PC Magazine November 11, 2003 Larry J. Seltzer	Spam Solutions: Good Enough, but Not Perfect Are these your best bets for stopping junk e-mail at home and at the office or is Outlook 2003 all you need?
PC Magazine November 11, 2003 Larry J. Seltzer	Enterprise Spam Tools: Several Approaches, Including Some That Work Client-side spam utilities like Norton AntiSpam 2004 are fine for home users, but any business large enough to have a mail server needs something more: a server-side solution that traps spam before it hits employees' in-boxes.
PC Magazine November 11, 2003 Cade Metz	Protect Your New PC Your new system is at great risk the first time you go online. Here's how to keep it safe.
PC Magazine November 11, 2003	The Lookout: New Critical RPC Flaws Nearly a month to the day after the Blaster worm began tearing through the Internet, Microsoft Corp. reported three newly identified flaws in the Windows RPC protocol, two of which are quite similar to the one that Blaster attacks.
PC Magazine October 21, 2003 Carol A. Mangis	Sorry, Wrong Number As if there isn't enough danger lurking in cyberspace, now computer users are increasingly threatened by insidious programs called dialers or auto-dialers that sneak onto their PCs.
PC Magazine October 21, 2003 Michael J. Miller	Upbeat About Digital Music Let's hope that in its zeal to stop pirates the music industry doesn't hurt legitimate customers.
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