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SirCam worm still a serious threat
News That's a concept that a hefty number of home PC users don't understand. Although corporate customers quickly applied the patch, many home PC users haven't downloaded the updates, Faris said. And unless home computer users are better cordoned off...
[September 5, 2001, 13:48]
Bluetooth exiled from LAN of hope and glory
News It had previously supported a competing wireless LAN technology called HomeRF for consumer use, but 802.11b's popularity in the workplace has caused prices to drop, bringing it into range of home users.
[April 5, 2001, 7:41]
Broadband divide getting wider
Talkback All very well but I feel that this effort should be directed to UK home users who don't have one, or school children who get little chance to use the one and only family PC. The primary obstacle to universal domestic broadband is that, although the...
[January 22, 2006, 13:35]
Virgin starts 200Mbps broadband trials
News Possible next-gen broadband apps could include HD and 3D TV entertainment services, remote delivery of IT support to home users, videoconferencing and home surveillance, according to the ISP. Fogg added that Wi-Fi routers can't currently support...
[May 11, 2009, 9:35]
IM viruses finally come of age
Talkback As you can see, it is realy free for home users, but not for companys. I have payed for their software to protect my hardware, files, privacy .so did millions of users. Via other pc on my home network(not infected!
[April 5, 2005, 14:04]
Vista grants added user privileges
News Most networks have realised the benefit of implementing laptops to increase the mobility of their users and this complicates the issue for the system administrator or home user. LUA means administrators should only grant users those rights and...
[November 15, 2005, 10:15]
Nimda worm attacks the Web
News It's home users - and their lax security protection - that have them worried Nimda hits broadband users Wed 19 Sept: BT says that two of its Exchanges may have been hit by the Nimda virus, cutting off broadband users
[September 19, 2001, 14:47]
Mobile Media Maker (A1000)
Downloads The software installs an encoding package on a Windows XP computer, users pick any video file from their harddrive, CD or DVD and with only three clicks, the software turns it into a compressed movie file, which will play on the built-in...
[February 17, 2005, 7:00]
Sobig.F is 'worst variant yet'
News He wasn't yet able to say which peer-to-peer applications are affected, but warned that this made Sobig.F a serious threat to home users. Shipp believes that the email form of Sobig.F poses a greater threat to home users than to businesses, as...
[August 19, 2003, 18:15]
A Year Ago: Hackers break into Yahoo! home
News The false home page only showed itself to users of the text-only browser known as Lynx, said a Yahoo! official, who went on to say that the hacker posting would not have been visible to users of Netscape's Communicator or Microsoft's Internet...
[December 10, 1998, 10:30]
Where to start?
Talkback Again, average home users will upgrade their OS when they purchase a new machine and anyone that is worth their salt will know that upgrading can lead to instability. That's the average home users I'm talking about, and I guess you were too.
[October 9, 2009, 16:26]
Security pros dig in for new DoS attacks
News This, combined with the fact that XP will largely be deployed by security-challenged home users, has experts fearing the worst. The operating system will include support for "raw sockets", a Unix-style function that lets users write raw IP packets...
[June 18, 2001, 16:05]
eBay: Can it keep customers loyal?
News They don't clutter up nearly every page on the Web, or urge users to leave wherever they are to visit another home page. They don't want to ruin the viral nature of the community and have ads distracting users, but it makes sense for them to extend...
[March 14, 2000, 13:34]
Microsoft focuses on ease of upgrades for Vista
News According to information in the Vista beta, the upgrade feature will allow Windows Vista Home Basic users to go to Windows Home Premium or Windows Vista Ultimate edition, while Vista Business users will be able to move only to the Ultimate edition.
[March 7, 2006, 8:45]
Windows Vista is in sync with your files review
Reviews Home users enable and then limit what is shared among users on the same machine by adding or removing files from the new Public folder space. For home users of Windows Vista, Microsoft offers a convenient and easy way to share data with other users...
[February 1, 2007, 13:13]
Dell brings back XP amid user demand
News Earlier this month, Dell added XP back as an option for small-business customers, but at the time, it said it would not add it back for home users. Dell does not have plans to launch Windows XP for home users as the preference, and demand is for...
[April 20, 2007, 17:22]
US Report: "HateFilter" tackles racist sites
News The tool, which parents can buy for $29.95 (£18) from ADL's Web site and install on their home computers, redirects users from a selected list of racist Web sites back to the ADL site and explains why the sites are blocked.
[November 12, 1998, 14:29]
Swedish bank hit by 'biggest ever' online heist
News According to the bank, users were redirected to a false home page, where they entered important log-in information, including log-in numbers. Nordea spokesman for Sweden, Boo Ehlin, said that most of the home users affected had not been running...
[January 19, 2007, 14:17]
CES: Motorola unveils Backflip Android device
News Users get five customisable home screen panes and, like the Cliq, the Backflip uses Motoblur software. When the phone is open, users can use the Backtrack to navigate through menus, scroll through home screens, flip through photos and so on.
[January 7, 2010, 15:01]
Fibre optic to dominate EU broadband market by 2010
News The EC report forecasts that by 2010, almost 90 percent of Europe's home Internet users will use broadband. To many British Internet users, the idea of signing up for fibre optic networks capable of data transfer rates between 10MB and 100MB per...
[October 11, 2001, 12:40]
