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Security Watch: Security Tips GaloreDATE: 18-SEP-2006 The WatchYour Security Watch author is on a long-deserved vacation. This week we bring you classic Security Watch tips, along with some news and a new Top Phish.The Top Phish this week says it wants to make your PayPal experience safer. Yeah, right. It's common for popup ads to resemble Windows error dialog boxes. Many a user has been tricked into buying phony software this way. Read more in the Misleading Ads section.Regardless of advertising, much of the supposed anti-spyware software out there is, in fact, malicious itself. Find out how to protect yourself in the Rogue Security Software section.Everyone misplaces or forgets passwords, but there's often an answer to the problem. Read the Cracking Passwords section to find an easy solution.When a program gets compromised, the system is vulnerable to the degree that the program was privileged. This, as you will learn in the Application Privileges section, is the key to limiting damage.Many attachments that come in through e-mail are threats, but you need to be able to receive the real ones. Learn how to fine-tune Outlook around this problem in the Attachments section.Attacks often rely on your not knowing the true type of the file you're running, and Windows can make it difficult to know. But you can learn how to clarify things in the File Extensions section.A hacker discovers backdoors in Adobe PDF, EMC announces plans to buy Network Intelligence, and more in the Security Watch Story Feed.
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