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Monday, November 16, 2009 4:08 PM

Get Safe Online with free, expert advice

Today marks the start of Get Safe Online week, an annual event to raise awareness of Internet safety issues. Through a variety of events, competitions and press activities, the GSO team reach out to consumers and small businesses to highlight the potential
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Thursday, July 09, 2009 1:14 PM

Mobile phone directory opens up new cold-calling avenues

From next week your mobile phone number is no longer private. You - and your children - can be cold-called at any time and subjected to any number of unsolicited calls. The company offering this service is called 118800 and numbers in their database are
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Wednesday, April 08, 2009 1:12 PM

Spam overwhelms email messages

This is a story on the BBC website on a just-published Microsoft security report, which states that more than 97% of all e-mails sent over the net are unwanted. Ed Gibson, chief cyber security advisor at Microsoft, said the rise in spam was due to traditional
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008 5:15 PM

New Ask the Expert questions - October

" How can I tell whether pop-up updates are real or spam? " and " Will I need to re-learn Word, Excel, Publisher etc if I upgrade to Office 2007? " are the two questions we highlight this month in our Ask the Expert feature. Asif Jinnah, Microsoft UK
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Monday, September 01, 2008 12:39 PM

Computer viruses go galactic

Viruses have now made it into orbit. The BBC news story says Nasa has confirmed that laptops carried to the International Space Station in July were infected with a virus known as Gammima.AG. The worm was first detected on Earth in August 2007 and lurks
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Friday, May 16, 2008 10:51 AM

Spam reaches 30 year anniversary

Earlier this month spam reached its 30 th birthday - no cake or candles for this anniversary given the way it has since exploded into most people's inboxes. A marketing manager for the old computer company DEC has the dubious honour of being the first
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Thursday, April 24, 2008 1:15 PM

How can I rid my inbox of spam?

Don't you just hate the ever-increasing amount of rubbish email that finds its way into your inbox? No matter how careful you are, someone else isn't, and the result? Endless mails trying to sell you Viagra or other, more distasteful items. So what can
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