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InternetNews January 28, 2004 Ryan Naraine	New IE Download Spoof Found Malicious Web sites could spoof the file extension of downloadable files.
Technology Research News January 28, 2004 Kimberly Patch	Neural-chaos team boosts security The best way to send a secret message is to scramble it with a random code, and an excellent source of randomness is chaos. The trick is sharing the randomness only with intended receivers. Grafting chaos and neural networks makes this possible, even over public channels.
The Motley Fool January 28, 2004 Dayana Yochim	Don't Blame eBay Auction-related Internet fraud is everywhere. But it's not necessarily the auctioneer's fault.
InternetNews January 27, 2004 Dan Muse	Ensim Adds User-Level Spam Control The hosting automation software provider announced it will upgrade its control panel software to allow users to set spam control on an individual (rather than server-level) basis. The company will announce tomorrow plans to support Red Hat Linux.
InternetNews January 27, 2004 Ryan Naraine	MyDoom Virus Could be 'Linux War' Weapon The SCO Group offers $250,000 for the arrest of the writer of a mass-mailing virus programmed to attack its home page.
InternetNews January 27, 2004 Janis Mara	Costs of Blocking Legit E-Mail To Soar Erroneously blocked e-mail will cost marketers about $419 million in 2008.
InternetNews January 27, 2004 Janis Mara	Brightmail Bows Reputation Service Anti-spam software company Brightmail has launched the Brightmail Reputation Service, which identifies prime sources of spam and blocks the bad stuff while (hopefully) ensuring delivery of the good.
InternetNews January 27, 2004 Janis Mara	Gates Predicts Death of Spam Microsoft's founder challenged the only extant entity seemingly bigger than Microsoft: unsolicited e-mail.
The Motley Fool January 27, 2004 Rex Moore	Spam Worm Spreading Fast Don't open that file! Another virus threatens your computer.
InternetNews January 26, 2004 Zachary Rodgers	IE Pop-up Blocker Defaults to "Off" Silence the pop-up death knells. With the beta release of the service pack 2 update for IE, the news is there's no news.
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