Creative thinking [with Free Open Source Software]
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| Freeware and shareware has its dark side though and there are some rogue
| programs around, especially among the many utilities that purport to keep PCs
| healthy. Some report false positives or deliberately infect a PC in an
| attempt to frighten users into paying for expensive (and often useless)
| repair programs. Fortunately, they are mostly confined to this relatively
| small area and easily avoided by not installing pirated software, clicking on
| website pop-ups and keeping your PC's defences up to date.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml?xml=/connected/2007/11/18/dlcreat18.xml
Related:
The wow starts now? Two hours, two computers and £150 later...
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| "You need a new laptop," said Thariq. "Vista is what we call
| resource intensive."
|
| My friend in New York had some bad news as well. He'd bought the
| same Vista pack for $160. I'd paid almost double. Other
| exclamations than wow came to mind.
|
| Some believe Vista will be the last great operating system because
| in future people will download functions from the internet. In the
| meantime, though, it is bound to succeed. But there's no need to
| junk a perfectly good computer just to have it. For most, the wow
| can wait for now.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/portal/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/portal/2007/02/13/ftvista13.xml
http://tinyurl.com/24lbhh
Telegraph floored by DDoS attack
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| Cyber-attacks have been much in the news of late. Last week,
| Russian and European leaders held a summit in the aftermath of a
| three-week cycle of denial of service attacks targeting the
| Baltic countries' internet infrastructure.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/22/telegraph_ddos/
Estonia suspects Kremlin in Web attacks
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| He said more than 1 million computers worldwide have been used in
| recent weeks to attack Estonian government and business Web sites
| since a dispute arose with Moscow over Estonia's moving of a
| Soviet-era war memorial from downtown Tallinn.
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http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/internet/05/17/estonia.cyber.attacks.ap/index.html?eref=rss_tech
Botnet 'pandemic' threatens to strangle the net
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| Cerf estimated that between 100 million and 150 million of the
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| 600 million PCs on the internet are under the control of hackers,
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| the BBC reports.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/26/botnet_threat/
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