Paypal Scam - Part II:

Click here to read the REAL Paypal's guide to keeping your account safe.  ¶ 5:54 PM

  High Alert - Paypal Scam:

If you receive a very believable looking email, purportedly from the folks at Paypal - and, it is asking you for your account information, DO NOT respond to it! Click here for a very good explanation of the newest wave of Paypal scams.  ¶ 5:49 PM

  Same Virus - New Variation:

The "MyDoom' virus has evolved. Please click here for the breaking news story.  ¶ 8:36 AM

  Scam Alert:

If you receive an e-mail concerning FDIC insurance, and a request for information about your bank account - ignore it. Do not respond to it, nor should you click on the link provided within the message. Click here to read the breaking news story about this latest scam.  ¶ 7:50 AM

  Virus Alert:

As reported by Reuters-

"The new virus, dubbed MyDoom or Novarg, is a mass-mailing worm that arrives
as an attachment with an .exe, .scr, .zip or .pif extension and can have a
subject line of "test" or "status."

It mails itself out to addresses in the victim's computer and is clogging
mail servers and degrading network performance at companies, experts said.

"Mailboxes at large corporations are infected and reporting multiple
infections throughout their entire organizations," said David Perry, global
education director at Trend Micro.

The worm was discovered on Monday afternoon and spread so quickly that Trend
Micro, Network Associates, Symantec and other anti-virus companies were
rating it a "high" outbreak."

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Additional information can be found at www.sarc.com - maintained by Symantec Corp.
  ¶ 7:14 AM

  Spyware protection:

McAfee - one of the leaders in anti-virus software, has just released new anti-spyware software. Click here for the breaking news story.  ¶ 1:32 PM

  SpyWare Beware:

Click here to read a good article by USA Today, about Spyware.  ¶ 9:32 AM

  Watch out for the Bagel Beagle:

A new virus is expected to hit U.S. computer users the middle of this week. The "Bagle" or "Beagle" has already spread through Asia and the U.K. - click here to read the breaking story at the Washington Post Web site.  ¶ 7:19 AM

  Internet Statistics:

Anyone interested in a UCLA study on the demographics of the Internet, can click here. It's pretty interesting reading.  ¶ 7:49 AM

  New Virus Threat:

It's actually an old virus with a new twist. If you have a Paypal account, and you receive a message purportedly from Paypal - check it out very closely! The message will contain information about a bonus one can earn by installing an attached file - do not uncompress or install that file. No legititmate organization will ever send a program to you via email - unless you've worked it out with them in advance. Click here to read the breaking news story about this incident.  ¶ 11:01 AM

  More Google Goodies:

Google has announced that the search engine has added additional search features, I'm impressed with the listing. Click here to read all about this breaking news story.  ¶ 8:07 AM

  "Hacker Attacker":

Click here for a great article on Yahoo News about defending ourselves against hackers and crackers.  ¶ 8:03 AM

  You go girl!

I wrote a column about Bethany Hamilton a few months ago. She's the teenage surfer girl who was bitten by a shark - and lost her entire arm. Now, 10 weeks after the incident, she is surfing again! Click here to read all about it.  ¶ 8:29 AM

  That's a lot of hits!

Last week, I posted the URL for NASA's Mars Rover information, images, and videos. Ever since the site became "hot" - it has averaged 260 million hits a day. That's a lot of data transfer. So if you have difficulties while visiting www.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html - you will now know why.  ¶ 7:53 AM

  Trojan Horse Alert:

We've got some great folks on the Internet don't we? Anyway, click here to read about a new trojan horse progam unleashed on the Internet in the past 24 hours. It comes in the form of an e-mail, purportedly sent by Microsoft and attached to the message is supposed to be a Windows XP update file.

Remember, Microsoft NEVER sends out updates. Do not download or run the attached file or you will regret it.  ¶ 7:13 AM

  Out of this world:

Want to keep up with what is going on - on the surface of Mars? Click here to read the latest news about the Mars Rover and to see new digital images transmitted back to Earth.  ¶ 8:22 AM

  Don't make these e-mail mistakes:

Click here for a good article on e-mail protocol - we can all learn something from this.  ¶ 3:18 PM

  Get a handle on your e-mail:

This news story offers a number of solutions (some free) for taking control of your email.  ¶ 3:13 PM

  New Year's Resolutions:

If you need help with keeping focused on your goals for 2004, click here - just might be exactly what you need.  ¶ 3:03 PM

  New Search Engine:

There's a new search engine on the block. Vivisimo provides the search results in a little different manner - clusters. Results are grouped together, this helps the "searcher" find related information more quickly.  ¶ 3:00 PM

  Time to get a Dell - dude:

Click here to read a breaking news story about Dell's attempts to gain more customers - no interest on financing!  ¶ 2:46 PM

  Feel like roving?

Lots of news items of late about the landing of the Mars Rover. For news straight from the source, and some great images of the Mars surface - click here.  ¶ 2:41 PM