Sources For Internet Privacy And Security Information; Finding Out About Internet Hoaxes; More Information About Computer Viruses - McAfee GUARD DOG 2 User Manual

Internet Security and Privacy
Some stores may use the cookie information to record each time you connect
to the site, what pages you use, and whether you click any of advertiser
banners. Reputable sites provide privacy information to tell you how the
information that is gathered is used.
The above examples of cookies are clearly useful to you, at least in some way.
However, other sites might download cookies just to collect information about
your Internet use. These cookies are clearly not useful to you at all.
You can use the Guard Dog Cookie Blocker to control which cookies can be
downloaded to your computer. For more information, see "What Cookie
Blocker does" on page 35.
Sources for Internet privacy and security
information

Finding out about Internet hoaxes

The United States Department of Energy—Computer Incident
Advisory Capability
Lists and describes hoaxes, viruses, and miscellaneous security information.
http://ciac.llnl.gov/

More information about computer viruses

International Computer Security Association Anti-Virus Lab
http://www.ncsa.com/virus/
Describes viruses, virus alerts, as well as hoaxes.
Yahoo!'s virus page
Yahoo!'s virus page contains links to anti-virus software companies, Usenet
virus newsgroups, and links to specific virus information.
Usenet virus FAQ
Contains a nicely organized compendium of information about viruses
collected from Usenet virus newsgroups.
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/bngusenet/comp/virus/top.
html
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