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...surprising amount of the draft report is aimed at home-computer owners. Here's the gist: the more dependent we become on the Internet, the more damage can be done by taking down large portions of it. And it doesn't take a criminal genius to realize that PC users, with their increasingly high-speed connections and low-grade security setups, are the easiest on-ramp for any kind of attack...
Though the report doesn't tap terror groups by name, the implication is clear: if you don't practice good PC hygiene now, al-Qaeda or some organization like it could one day hijack your hard drive. That's not just homeland-security hype. In 2001, viruses and other malicious code caused $12 billion worth of damage to the U.S. economy with the aid of unsuspecting users. How to stop that from happening? Most of the suggestions in the cybersecurity report are pretty familiar: don't open strange email attachments; do install a firewall; choose passwords that aren't easy...
...Napster file-sharing programs like Morpheus or Kazaa, both known distributors of spyware, you're probably already infected. Sometimes spyware masquerades as cookies, those little files websites leave on your computer so you don't have to type your name and password every time you visit. Once on your PC, spyware can sequester itself deep inside your operating system in what are called registry files. Anti-virus software won't spot it, because it looks like something you chose to install...
...consider my PC to be pretty well protected--virus free and firewalled. Yet the first time I ran Ad-Aware, it spent 15 minutes turning up and removing a dozen nasty little programs with names like Xupiter Toolbar, Gator Trickler and Bargains.exe. And when I ran it again a few weeks later, five more pieces of spyware showed...
...February, to U.S. bank M&T for $3.1 billion. Vivendi's Dash For Cash The Vivendi fire sale began in earnest, as the group sold its Italian pay TV arm Telepiú; to News Corp. for €1 billion. The company confirmed it would also sell its publishing, PC games and overseas telecom units. Gassing Up Indonesia In one of the largest-ever investments in Indonesia, state-owned Pertamina and British Petroleum signed an $8.5 billion deal to open a gas field for China. INDICATORS New Course For The Bourse Europe's market landscape is about to be transformed. Next...