From the monthly archives: November 2005
Last week, a variant of the well-known Sober worm (virus) started spreading via email. Some are calling it the biggest virus attack of the year, and a recent article says the infections aren’t slowing down. The email claims that one or more government agencies know you’ve been visiting illegal sites and asks [...]
Andy Carvin was at the WSIS summit in Tunis and interviewed the chief technology officer for MIT’s $100 laptop project. The video is informative and provides a unique look at the latest prototype. As Andy’s site seems to be very busy, Computers.net has made the video available here as well. Check [...]
We at Computers.net strive to provide an environment where readers find a unique blend of relevant computer news and do-it-yourself computer help. Now we’d like to make it even easier for you to find answers to your computer questions. A permanent link entitled “Help Desk” will be placed at the top of the left [...]
While many computer users are now familiar with using CTRL+C and CTRL+V to copy and paste, few realize just how many keyboard shortcuts are built into Windows. Computers.net has compiled a lengthy list of keyboard shortcuts, along with what we feel are the top 10 most useful ones.
Earlier this week at a United Nations Internet summit, Nicholas Negroponte of MIT showed off the current design for the $100 laptop. According to one article, his goal is to distribute the laptops to 100-150 million students. Apparently five companies are bidding to make the laptop, though we don’t know which five. [...]
USB Flash drives have very quickly become the portable storage media of choice for the many people, replacing floppy disks, Zip disks, and even CD-RW disks to some extent. USB flash drives are especially useful for students or people who regularly use more than one computer and need a dependable way to transfer data back and forth.
News.com has announced that America Online, Yahoo, CNET Networks, Verizon and Computer Associates are among the companies backing the new Trusted Download Program. The companies are working closely with the online privacy group Truste in releasing standards for software downloads to be certified, which should be released early next year. Here’s what to [...]
Expect more “phishing” emails
Spoof emails are on the rise, and they are getting trickier.
Several months ago Computers.net
released an article called “10 Ways To
Recognize Fake (Spoof) Emails.” Since then there has been a rapid increase
in the number of “phishing” (pronounced “fishing”) scams, or scams [...]
