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Virus Infection For Dummies
I've been saying for years that the best defense against viruses, spyware, trojans and other computing "malware" is your own common-sense skepticism about strange programs, prompts and Web sites. That corollary of that statement is that no program in the world will protect you if you're sufficiently dumb, hasty, clueless...
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Rob Pegoraro
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January 23, 2009; 11:37 AM ET |
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Have I Answered All Your DTV Questions?
I hope today's column answers every possible question and concern you've had about the upcoming switch to digital television broadcasts -- but I've written too many of these "what to do about DTV" columns to have too much confidence in that. Instead, I'll be happy if today's piece covers most...
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Rob Pegoraro
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January 22, 2009; 12:00 PM ET |
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The White House Turns the (Web) Page
The IT people at the White House must have had a busy day yesterday--just in time for President Obama's inauguration, they swapped out the old whitehouse.gov (see this March 2008 snapshot, courtesy of the Internet Archive) for a new site modeled after Obama's earlier change.gov site, which itself owed a...
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Rob Pegoraro
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January 21, 2009; 1:54 PM ET |
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The Web
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How Will You Follow the Inauguration Online?
The day has finally arrived. At noon, the government of the United States of America will trade one employee for another; George W. Bush's term as president will end, and Barack Obama's will begin. At this point, I don't think I need to describe all the reasons why people might...
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Rob Pegoraro
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January 20, 2009; 7:15 AM ET |
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Digital culture
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