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Thursday, August 10, 2006
Hackers turn pro
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Hackers have grown up and gotten jobs.
The trouble is that many of those jobs involve breaking into your computer, stealing information from businesses and creating viruses that turn your home machine into a zombie ready to take commands remotely. These days there are fewer teenaged vandals and more sophisticated computer criminals.
If you don’t have a good firewall program you need to get one.
Take a look at this article from PC World. And if you’ve been depending on the built-in firewall in Windows to protect your computer, then pay special attention to the blue box at the very bottom of the story.
This is a good day to download the free firewall from Zone Alarm.
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