All About AntiSpam Software

Currently, it is true to say that any Spyware program targeted at Mac computers would spread at a rather slow speed for one simple reason. And that is the fact that only about 3 per cent of the computers linked to the World Wide Web today are macs using Mac OS or Mac operating system.

What this means is that every time the virus attempts to spread, it will find that 97 per cent of the time they will be facing a PC or non-mac computer.

Unfortunately the result of this has been to give many Mac users a false sense of security that is laving an increasing number of them very vulnerable. The reality is that there are numerous Spyware and Adware malicious software in the market today that are capable of attacking and infecting Mac users.

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Last January 04, we submitted an article entitled «The Top Seven Threats To Your Computer in 2007» and we listed Voice over IP (VoIP) as the number four threat. Two weeks later, the Computerworld website came out with an article entitled «VoIP Soon To Be A Target Of...Hackers». For those of you who are unfamiliar with Computerworld, it is a website targeted more towards advanced computer users («geeks» is the industry-standard appellation).

VoIP is not an entirely new technology, in fact it has been around since the mid-1990's. At that time, home internet users mostly connected through dial-up and the maximum speed was 56Kbps. High speed connections were limited mostly to big businesses

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Your email inbox can be a hazardous place. Most of us deal with the annoyance of spam emails trying to coax us into buying everything from viagra to stocks, but among those annoying yet relatively harmless emails there may be a message or two from a sender with much more diabolical intentions. You may have heard of the IRS email scam or the UK Lottery scam. These fraudsters attempt to obtain your personal and financial information for a number of purposes including credit fraud and even identity theft.

There are many types of email scams. Here are four common ploys.

IRS refund scam
This is an email that appears to come from the IRS which states that you are due a refund and gives

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