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Entrepreneur, June, 2000 by Robert Mcgarvey

Stop hackers in their tracks.

Do you have high-speed DSL or cable modem Net access? If you've got speed, you've also got a big problem--you're hacker bait, because an always-on Internet connection makes you an easy and tempting target (see "Insurance," page 135). Just imagine--a hacker sends a pornographic e-mail to everybody in your address book...or cracks into your Quicken files and makes off with account numbers, maybe passwords, too...or he just zaps your hard drive, leaving you with no files at all. Scared yet?

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It gets worse. Remember a few months ago when Yahoo! and eBay were shut down by hackers who unleashed so-called "denial of service" attacks where a flood of unwanted info cascaded into those sites? A wily hacker can break into your computer today, add a time-released agent, and a month or two later, enlist your box and thousands of other zombies in a denial of service attack against a big Web site. Try explaining that one to the FBI.

For a cure, surf over to Zone Labs! (www.zonelabs.com) and download Zone Alarm 2, an easy- to-set-up firewall program that promises protection against both inbound and outbound attacks--which is geek speak for saying it will keep hackers away and if, somehow, a hacker has deposited a program on your computer and later seeks to take control, Zone Alarm will stop it. Best of all, the download doesn't cost a penny.

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Entrepreneur, June, 2000 by Robert Mcgarvey

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