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If you're a virus writer, don't expect to have your nefarious work named after your favorite dog, diet drink or exotic dancer. Antivirus researchers have first dibs on virus names, and the routes they travel to arrive at a name are as varied as the pieces of malicious code they study.
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In any 2003 predictions, Microsoft stands out (Boston.com)
The fortunes of Microsoft continue to lead the expert's annual predictions. It's fairly certain that we will be treated to another year of legal wrangling, especially now that a federal court in Baltimore has ordered Microsoft to start including Sun Microsystems's Java software with future copies of the Windows operating system.
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Win2k or .NET? (Computerworld)
Support for NT 4.0 is running out, which means that IT professionals must make a decision. Should they migrate to Microsoft Windows 2000 and XP or move directly to Microsoft .NET Server? Both have their pros and cons.
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QUICK HIT OF THE DAY
Make your laptops traveling fortresses
People use laptop computers everywhere and for everything. Critical, sensitive corporate and private data goes with them, and is as vulnerable to attack, theft and destruction as a small child's lunch money when the school bully comes around. And yet even those charged with maintaining notebooks for corporate users still don't know diddly about locking them down. Here are 13 things you need to do to lock down laptops.
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The Internet Information Server integrates Internet technologies at the operating system level to deliver services ranging from file and print to advanced line-of-business applications. This Best Web Links category includes a comparison of IIS and Apache, as well as 10 steps to improve your IIS security.
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Bridgeville becomes first Netburg
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The signs welcoming you to Bridgeville, Calif. need to be changed. They should now say, "Welcome to Bridgeville, first town ever sold on eBay." The whole town, all 82 acres of it, was auctioned off last week on the Web site. Someone paid nearly $1.8 million for the northern California burg, which comes with a post office, part of a river, a cemetery and about 20 citizens.
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