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Trojan Horse Christmas
Scott Granneman, 2004-12-30

Here are some suggestions on how to help your family members safely use that new trojan horse they received under the Christmas tree this year.

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Trojan Horse Christmas 2005-01-01
Anonymous (1 replies)
Its time to install linux on those new pc's. tell granny and gramps its windows plus. Set it up so they can easily get on the net, play solitaire and send email. They will never know it's linux and you won't have to go through the semi-annual windows reinstall marathon. ...

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Trojan Horse Christmas 2005-01-07
Anonymous
Indeed a good alternative. ...

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Trojan Horse Christmas 2005-01-02
Anonymous
I've heard that National Treasure is quite good....

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Trojan Horse Christmas 2005-01-03
ittoledo <TS>
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I am glad to hear of another person mentioning appliance-based internet devices. "User awareness is our best defense". Sure, however best is just not good enough. Regardless of how comprehensive or convincing our training is, it is still insufficient. Honestly, I think we missed a great opp...

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Trojan Horse Christmas 2005-01-03
Hans Kramer
Nice article with a lot of good and sound information and advice. Well written and funny too.

Although I would like to add this advice:
Consider to stop using windows and get a more reliable and secure OS: Mac (base on FreeBSD, currently the most secure OS) or a Linux version if you got to use P...

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Trojan Horse Christmas 2005-01-04
Anonymous
Great Article. I just spent an 1 1/2 last night on my in-laws one year old PC removing 270 Adware, 19 Spywear, and 243 Viruses/Trojans. And I still need to remove the Trojan AdClicker-AF.dll from their machine..

I switched them to Firefox 1.0 and Thunderbird 1.0 and setup Mcaffe to scan once a we...

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Trojan Horse Christmas 2005-01-05
Vladimir, Russian mob :)
Why Russian and Ukrainian? Aren't there any other criminals in the world? For ex., in the USA?
I think that Mom will not be very happy even if her credit card number will be stollen by any american thief......

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Trojan Horse Christmas 2005-01-05
Anonymous
You could see "Meet the Fockers". It is quite funny, though it has some crude humor at times. ...

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