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Common Sense Security

If you lived in a big city with lots of criminals, you wouldn't leave your door open with valuables in plain sight when you left for the day, or were tucking in your kids. But your computer lives in the biggest city ever created. A lot of you leave your doors open for the criminals online, and there are plenty of them. Common Sense Security is designed to give an overview of what we can do to keep our computers safer and more secure from spyware, viruses, worms, trojans and more.

From This is True for 22 July 2007

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