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...recommend SpamKiller. It's much more extensive, if more expensive ($30 after a 30-day trial, vs. $15 for Spam Buster). One caveat: neither program will work with Web-based Yahoo or Hotmail. However, both services will let you set up a regular POP mail account for a fee. It's worth it. SpamKiller even filtered out my Australian pal. Next time, cutie, use a dictionary...
...other gripe is that the new online links tend to funnel users to Microsoft services. Setting up a Microsoft Hotmail or MSN account to run in the slick Outlook software is a snap; doing it with non-Microsoft providers is a chore. Highlight an address in Word, and you can map it online--using Microsoft Expedia. Type a stock symbol, and you can get a live price--from Microsoft Money Central. You get the idea...
...weeks, steal passwords and sneak looks at the vital source code for future (not current) products, using a Trojan-horse virus called QAZ that's written in a Microsoft programming language (Visual C++). The pilfered passwords were sent to an e-mail address registered in St. Petersburg, Russia, through Hotmail--another Microsoft service. Even worse, Vincent Gullotto, head of the antivirus emergency-response team at security site McAfee.com claims he warned Microsoft of the "medium risk" virus three months ago. "Hackers hit Microsoft every day," says Gullotto. "It's the company virus writers love to hate." Which, if nothing else...
DOUBLE TAKE Have America Online and Microsoft swapped playbooks? With the new AOL 6.0, you can get your address book no matter where you log on, and you can sort e-mail messages by date or sender--functions Microsoft's Hotmail has as well. AOL 6.0 also lets you get e-mail by phone and adds new character icons for your buddy list. Microsoft, meanwhile, has launched its new MSN Explorer Web browser with the warm-and-fuzzy icons and labels AOL made famous. Explorer is free and works with any Web connection, but Microsoft wouldn't mind...
...sinister funhouse ambience extends to FARC headquarters, some eight miles up a dirt road in Los Pozos, where I found jungle-hardened guerrillas hunched over computers, rifles hanging off the backs of chairs as they answered their e-mail. (FARC's commanders maintain their own Hotmail accounts.) I was introduced to several FARC commanders, but none was as colorful as Julian Conrado, a balladeer with a goofy mustache who manages to rhyme "Americano" with "imperio romano." He's lost three guitars in battle, he says proudly. "One of my guitars was held up by a Colombian general...