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March 14th, 2004, 11:36 PM
Link to story: http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/business/8184388.htm
-{ Quote: "WALTER MOSSBERG: PERSONAL TECHNOLOGY
PC users deserve service to handle security woes
If you are a consumer with a Windows PC and you have installed all the software recommended to protect your computer, you probably feel like an overwhelmed, underarmed security guard. You get flooded with warnings that bad things are happening, but it's hard to decipher the warnings and even harder to know what exactly to do about them.
The well-equipped Windows XP machine today has at least four alarm systems in the so-called system-tray area at the lower-right corner of the screen. And all of them vie for attention.
One minute, your anti-virus software will pop up with a warning that some virus or worm has appeared on your machine and may -- or may not -- have been deleted. The next minute, your firewall program will tell you that somebody is trying to hack into your machine over the Internet, or that some program you've never heard of is trying to phone home.
Next, Microsoft's Windows Update program might yell at you to download some "critical" updates or else scary things could happen. And then the newest type of security monitor, an anti-spyware program, might alert you that some lowlife company is trying to hijack your Web browser's home page, or install some invisible software that tracks your activities online.
And that scenario doesn't even include the notifications you get from your anti-spam program that new, fraudulent, pornographic, or just annoying junk e-mail is waiting...
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-{ Quote: "WALTER MOSSBERG: PERSONAL TECHNOLOGY
PC users deserve service to handle security woes
If you are a consumer with a Windows PC and you have installed all the software recommended to protect your computer, you probably feel like an overwhelmed, underarmed security guard. You get flooded with warnings that bad things are happening, but it's hard to decipher the warnings and even harder to know what exactly to do about them.
The well-equipped Windows XP machine today has at least four alarm systems in the so-called system-tray area at the lower-right corner of the screen. And all of them vie for attention.
One minute, your anti-virus software will pop up with a warning that some virus or worm has appeared on your machine and may -- or may not -- have been deleted. The next minute, your firewall program will tell you that somebody is trying to hack into your machine over the Internet, or that some program you've never heard of is trying to phone home.
Next, Microsoft's Windows Update program might yell at you to download some "critical" updates or else scary things could happen. And then the newest type of security monitor, an anti-spyware program, might alert you that some lowlife company is trying to hijack your Web browser's home page, or install some invisible software that tracks your activities online.
And that scenario doesn't even include the notifications you get from your anti-spam program that new, fraudulent, pornographic, or just annoying junk e-mail is waiting...
.
.
." }-