... virus was detected. In 1995 the estimated number of viruses had risen to 8,000, just 10 years after the first virus was detected (fig. 1). As the Internet and World Wide Web became widespread, the virus count increased dramatically. Researchers at Sophos Incorporated, another virus research center, detected 7,189 new viruses in the year 2002 alone, they discovered 25 viruses each ... order for a true virus to spread (Pietromonaco 14). WORM: A worm spreads itself the same way as a virus, by infecting separate programs, although, can spread itself through the Internet, World Wide Web, or a...

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Virtually every advancement of communications technology has precipitated a controversy over the rights of freedom of expression under the first amendment. Internet access to the word wide web is no exception. Internet materials having widely varied sexual content are readily available to users of the Internet. In 1996, the Supreme Court overruled the Communications Decency Act, which would ... complex component of creating this system. Their sole purpose is to categorize website sexual content and assign each website with a rating. This is a daunting task given the enormous number of web si...

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... purchasing a computer is to decide what is the main purpose a user will need the computer to do. Most home computers are used for writing papers for classes, surfing the World Wide Web, or just to play computer games. Knowing how the computer will be used will help in determining what the minimum requirements need to be. A buyer must have an idea of ... processors, the Pentium 4 and the Celeron. The type of processor or the class of computer is important. Most home users will be happy with the Intel Celeron for surfing the web, writing papers and e-mailing, this tends to be the cheaper ...

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... Internet, created by Linus Torvalds and posted as Open Source in 1991, meaning anyone could have or modify it. Open Source is widely available on many sites around the World Wide Web. A Business Week article by Sam Jaffe named HP-Compaq's Great Software Challenge observes that even bigger name companies like HP and IBM are adopting Linux as their main Server Operating ... all the same. Your computer connects to your Internet Service Provider's, or ISP's, server which is a gateway to link to IP addresses outside of your immediate network, which could be a web site or a file server. The i...

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... words or phrases. How do viruses spread? There are many ways for a virus to enter your system:      Email attachments    Database replications    Shared network files and network traffic in general    World Wide Web (WWW) sites      FTP traffic from the Internet (file downloads)    Floppy disks brought in from outside the organization  Electronic bulletin boards (BBS) Pirated software (software that is copied illegally) Demonstration software ... ...

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... . Network and operating systems, such as NT server and Windows 95 are found in a vast number of companies. Internet applications such as Internet Explorer and Front Page allow browsing and WEB page creation. MS Office integrates spreadsheet, database, word processing and presentation manager applications into one user friendly package. Project Management software, Microsoft strikes again, MS Project covers the task very ... well. Project allows tracking of resources, labor costs, time-lines, and generates reports and Gantt Charts as well. Microsoft has covered all the primary function ar...

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... more efficient Internet experience. It also has support for DHTML and XML. This offers a powerful platform for the development of highly scalable end-to-end e-commerce and line-of-business Web applications. The reason I would take Windows 2000 rather than 98 is because it is geared directly toward the Internet. Windows 98 would actually be more for a home computer. It was ... reputation of being a business, networking environment, which is not something most people will need for there system. Linux works on almost every kind of computer, and provides a robust platform for a wide variety...

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