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IWF lambasted for plan to ban newsgroups
News Cyber-liberty advocates have lambasted the UK Internet regulator's decision to close down newsgroups that are known to regularly contain child pornography, dismissing the decision as a desperate attempt to justify the organisation's existence.
[July 19, 2001, 17:22]
IWF says ISPs must drop illegal newsgroups
News The Internet Watch Foundation on Wednesday announced its decision to take greater responsibility for illegal content on the Internet, and will be telling Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to drop newsgroups that are known to regularly contain...
[July 19, 2001, 10:10]
Newsgroups reflect virus' scope, speed
News Somebody by that name posts heavily on Simpsons newsgroups. Patrick Nolan, who identified himself as an employee of a leading virus hunting software firm, described on alt.comp.virus how he first heard of Melissa on Friday morning.
[March 28, 1999, 20:13]
PocketNews
Downloads is a client utility for reading NNTP newsgroups on Windows CE-based Pocket PC devices. PocketNews provides the user with ability to subscribe and read newsgroups from any public or private NNTP server.Main features:Address book for favorite NNTP...
[April 22, 2006, 8:00]
PixNewsLite
Downloads Why waste time searching through newsgroups when you can download at the touch of a button? With PixNewsLite, all that you need to do is spend two minutes entering your news server and newsgroups, and then click the Start button.
[July 27, 2002, 8:00]
VASTnews
Downloads A newsgroup downloader specially designed to handle today's gigantic newsgroups and gigantic RAR, AVI, and MPG files. Newsgroups have become a vast expanse of giant files spread over thousands of posts capable of choking ordinary news readers...
[November 10, 2005, 6:00]
Experts warn of JPEG-based virus attack
News A Trojan that exploits a recent critical flaw in Microsoft Windows' handling of JPEG images has been posted to several newsgroups, but it has no way to spread, security experts said on Tuesday. Though the code only threatens visitors to the...
[September 29, 2004, 8:55]
PixNewsLite X
Downloads Why waste time searching through newsgroups when you can download at the touch of a button? With PixNewsLite, all that you need to do is spend two minutes entering your news server and newsgroups, and then click the Start button.
[February 18, 2005, 6:00]
Binbot
Downloads Binbot is a tool to download files from binary newsgroups on Usenet. Features include: Easy to use, fast and powerful Designed to handle large newsgroups with ease Automatically assembles, decodes and unpacks articles (unrar/unzip/unsplit) Supports...
[May 14, 2008, 8:00]
News Burst: Thus becomes first ISP to patrol for child porn
News ISP Thus has taken the unprecedented step of promising to remove known child pornography newsgroups from its servers amid growing concerns in the UK that the Internet is teeming with predatory paedophiles.
[February 21, 2001, 10:15]
Picture Patrol 9
Downloads Picture Patrol is a program for Windows and Mac OS that automatically extracts pictures from thousands of articles posted in Usenet newsgroups. Unlike ordinary newsreaders that require your constant intervention, Picture Patrol independently...
[October 26, 2005, 8:00]
Thus fails in paedophile pledge
News British telco Thus has failed in its pledge to remove paedophile content from its newsgroups, amid speculation that it has lost the will to take a more proactive approach in protecting children online.
[March 1, 2001, 8:18]
Usenet under fire
News In a new series of lawsuits, Hollywood studios for the first time are targeting companies that provide access to Usenet newsgroups. A: Also known as Usenet, newsgroups are one of the earliest forms of sustained conversation online.
[February 27, 2006, 14:30]
ISPs could be forced to remove paedophile content
News British ISPs could be compelled to follow Thus' example and remove known child pornography newsgroups from their servers if the Internet Watch foundation is granted greater legal clout in April. The telco, which owns Demon Internet, said Wednesday...
[February 21, 2001, 15:05]
News Burst: Thus finds paedophile crackdown impossible
News British telco Thus has cancelled its pledge to remove paedophile content from its newsgroups according to reports by Silicon.com Wednesday. One week into its ambitious crackdown on Internet paedophiles, reports have branded the decision "unworkable...
[February 28, 2001, 15:03]
NewsHunterFREE
Downloads NewsHunterFREE is the Usenet utility for OS X.Easy Set Up will have new users downloading from newsgroups quickly and with minimal fuss.Archer multimedia viewer technology accessible through the Player menu as well as from within NewsHunter...
[September 4, 2005, 8:00]
Split&Concat
Downloads Utility to split or recombine large files (for use with internet newsgroups or if your file is too large to put on one CD). In Internet newsgroups large files often are split into smaller parts since messages can not be of more than a certain size...
[September 6, 2009, 1:39]
iGrabNews
Downloads iGrabNews allows you to download files (pictures, audio, video.from usenet newsgroups (usually alt.binaries. It is perfeclty fitted for heavy-loaded alt.binaries.newsgroups that hold hundreds of thousands of articles (i.e.thousands of files...
[August 10, 2006, 8:00]
Thus bends law to avoid responsibility for child porn
News British telco Thus is arguing that it cannot legally check for paedophile content, despite making a pledge in February to actively remove unlawful content from its newsgroups. This implies an obligation to go into newsgroups and download articles...
[March 28, 2001, 16:37]
