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============================================================ ********** Sponsored by Dell Small Business ********** Double Memory FREE! Select Dell Servers & Systems. http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-1083-1-1-371668-100445-1 ************************************************************ ============================================================ Welcome to today's edition of Inside PCMag.com. Readers often ask us where viruses come from and why people write them. Various authors, including Sven Jaschan, the 18-year- old creator of the Sasser virus, have been caught, so maybe they can tell us. Our own take is that people write them for the satisfaction of disrupting millions of lives. What do you think? Let's put on our black hats, think like virus authors, and try to come up with reasonable (at least to the nuts that write them) and unreasonable arguments for writing them. http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-1083-1-1-371668-100448-1 IN THIS ISSUE: * Review: Not Your Boss's BlackBerry * Security Watch: Blackmal Virus Seeks to Remove Defenses * Plus: Finally, a Way to Turn off Spyware * Review Roundup: External Storage: Little Big Drives * Opinion: High-Tech School Daze * Review: Fragging the Notebook Competition * Review: Picture-in-Picture LCD ============================================================ Review: Not Your Boss's BlackBerry You've seen them on trains, basketball games, and the beach: BlackBerrys, those little black devices with tiny keyboards that corporate-exec types are always carrying around. As you probably know, they use them to stay in constant connection with corporate e-mail. They're very effective, but not especially cool. Now there's a new BlackBerry, the 7100t, that ups the cool factor significantly with a new design, an odd keyboard, and some added features like Bluetooth functionality and AIM and Web browsing integration. This is a handheld device worth investigating. Get all the details and see the product pictures in our full review. http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-1083-1-1-371668-100451-1 ============================================================ Security Watch: Blackmal Virus Seeks to Remove Defenses "MyWife," "Blackmal," or "NyxemD"; it doesn't matter what you call it, this new threat seeks to do the dirtiest of deeds: disable your antivirus protection. We've got the "in the wild" report and can tell you how to identify and block it. http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-1083-1-1-371668-100454-1 ============================================================ Plus: Finally, a Way to Turn off Spyware There's a little-known Windows system utility that will allow you to turn off spyware and other naughty apps that are slowing down your system. http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-1083-1-1-371668-100457-1 ============================================================ Review Roundup: External Storage: Little Big Drives You bought a new notebook last year with a 40GB hard disk and you're thinking that maybe you should have gotten a bigger drive. If the notebook came with a USB 2.0 port (of course it did!) or even FireWire, you have no worries. There are a plethora of external drives (local and networks) available for you to choose from, and most of them will easily outstrip the puny drive in that relatively new notebook (and some of the desktops you bought, too). We test 15 of the top units from Iomega, LaCie, Western Digital, and others, and show you where you can store your digital stuff. http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-1083-1-1-371668-100460-1 ============================================================ Opinion: High-Tech School Daze Let's take a walk down Memory Lane with executive editor Lance Ulanoff as he compares campus technology of the early eighties with what students have to choose from today. http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-1083-1-1-371668-100463-1 ============================================================ Review: Fragging the Notebook Competition Whoever thought we'd be talking about a laptop PC's paint job? But that's what we've come to expect out of the coolest new gaming portables, and the Falcon Northwest FragBook TL does not disappoint. It's got a metallic green/purple finish, and its power and battery life make it a killer system for on-the-go gamers. It also costs more than $4,000. You'll want to get more details and test results in our full review. http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-1083-1-1-371668-100466-1 ============================================================ Review: Picture-in-Picture LCD LCD monitors are a "get what you pay for" category, and if a panel costs $300, well, you'll get a minimum of features and perhaps about 15 inches of viewing space. Add four inches and numerous features like picture-in-picture, and you get the Eizo Nanao FlexScan L795, a $1,000 monitor. Are its premium features worth the price? 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