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...does this stuff get onto your machine? Most often, it hides behind other software as you download it. If you're a heavy user of post-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...
...After a user gives the [system] a web page to test, the system connects to a device in China and attempts to retrieve the specified URL,” Edelman said. “It tracks the success or failure of the request, and it promptly tells the user whether the page could be retrieved as expected...
...said that in the “cost-benefit analysis” of UC Books, the dwindling popularity of the program was outweighed by the tremendous effort required to maintain it. Instead, she said, the council is focusing on other technology, such as designing a more user-friendly website...
Steven Kamer's buddy list on Yahoo! Messenger represents much of his personal and professional universe: a gallery of user IDs networked to his life. When he gets to work every morning at Totality, a Web-services company based in San Francisco, the first thing he does is fire up his laptop and log on to this virtual world. His fiance is often waiting there, and so are his colleagues, who communicate mostly by instant messaging as they work to keep websites running smoothly for clients such as American Airlines and BestBuy.com...
...take place in little speech balloons. Sherlock 3 will find movies, flight times and Yellow Pages listings in a click or two without the hassle of actually getting on the Internet. And there's a great new spam filter in the e-mail program. If you're a Mac user who's been holding out on OS X, it could be time to play around with a furry feline. --By Chris Taylor