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Scammed???

The internet police? Whoa. I don't know if that sounds like a cool idea or a scary one.

The reality is that there is no organization that polices the internet for criminal activity, and for better or worse that's what gives the web its uniqueness. Think of the internet as the Old West, where law is maintained only through an uneasy and largely unspoken agreement among communities, while vigilantes and outlaws end up sparring from time to time.

While the net is on the whole a law-abiding place, we all know there are some bad apples in the bunch who infect websites with spyware and send scam instant messages. Nowhere is this worse than in the realm of email: The aggravating majority of all mail traffic is now spam.

So what can you do about bringing spammers to justice? Not a lot. Though it may feel like you get a lot of spam, you are really just a drop in the bucket. You could report it to your ISP or an anti-spam organization, but most organizations like Spamhaus (which tracks spammers worldwide) actively discourage individual abuse reports. The FBI and Secret Service have jurisdiction over electronic, financial crimes in the U.S. (and, yes, sending spam is illegal), but unless you've lost money (and a substantial amount of it), they aren't going to investigate an individual spam message. There's just too much of it, and the feds do know about the worst spammers already; most of them live in foreign countries outside the easy reach of the law. (If you have been defrauded, the Internet Crime Complaint Center should be your first stop. If you fear a physical threat, contact your local police.)

So how should you handle plain old spam, the kind you get every day? If you use webmail, click the "mark as spam" button. If you use an offline mail client, install a spam filter and use it religiously. (I use SpamBayes.) Nearly all ISPs also offer their own anti-spam services, which you should use in addition to your own protection. With multiple layers of protection, you shouldn't see more than a couple of spams getting through to you every day. But as for becoming an anti-spam vigilante, trying to run the bad guys out of town, well, there's just no upside to it.

MySpace founder lied about his age

I feel so much better now that Tom—founder of MySpace and instant friend to all (and only friend to some)—lied about his age. Tom, as just about everyone knows, is your first friend when you sign up at MySpace. His friends (aka everyone in MySpace) become your friends.

Now, according to documents reviewed by Newsweek, it turns out that Tom will be 37 in November, and not 32 as his profile says. Yikes. Lying on MySpace. What a concept. I wonder if Tom's the first fibber in cyberspace? Somehow I doubt it.

Ask the social scientists and they'll tell you that lying on MySpace is not lying. It's called experimenting with your persona, role-playing, living your fantasy. Lying on MySpace is sort of like calling a magazine Seventeen, but knowing full well that the average reader is five years younger. I suspect that MySpace is a Never-Never Land for more than a few members.

You have to wonder what was Tom thinking when he lied about his age. I mean if you were going to go through all the trouble of lying, wouldn't you want to make it more worthwhile? Say you were 28? 25?

If the motivation was to be young enough to still talk to teens, well that's kind of creepy. Talking to a 32-year-old or a 37-year-old is not something most teens feel any more comfortable doing. If the goal, as some of the press is speculating, was to be one of the young, scrappy pups who launch a successful startup by age 30 (you know that you can get into groups like the Young Presidents' Organization if you make your first million before the three-decade mark) well…he probably wasn't too focused on what would happen when he hit 40.

Mark Zuckerberg, be forewarned. If you're a 50-year-old walking around in a 20-something-year-old body, the time to ‘fess up is now. And me, I'm waiting for the day when the in thing is going to be able to say that you started a great new company when you were 80.

How do you feel about Tom's age-old lie? Couldn't care less? Shattered? Would you lie about your age if it helped promote your business?

J.K Rowling's 1st Book after Harry Potter

J.K. Rowling has completed her first book not to feature teen wizard Harry Potter an illustrated collection of magical fairy stories titled "The Tales of Beedle the Bard."

Only seven copies of the book are being printed, Rowling said Thursday. One will be auctioned next month to raise money for a children's charity, while the others have been given away as gifts.

Rowling drew the illustrations herself and provided the handwriting for the five stories that make up the collection of fairytales.

"The Tales of Beedle the Bard" is mentioned in the final Potter book, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," as a gift left by headmaster Albus Dumbledore to Harry's friend Hermione, and provides clues that help destroy evil Lord Voldemort.

"'The Tales of Beedle the Bard' is really a distillation of the themes found in the Harry Potter books, and writing it has been the most wonderful way to say goodbye to a world I have loved and lived in for 17 years," Rowling said in a statement.

The volume, bound in brown morocco leather and mounted with silver and semiprecious stones, will be auctioned at Sotheby's on Dec. 13 with a starting price of $62,000. Proceeds will go to The Children's Voice, a charity that helps vulnerable children across Europe.

"Deathly Hallows," the seventh and final installment in Harry's adventures, was published in July. The seven books have sold nearly 400 million copies and have been translated into 64 languages.

Rowling told the British Broadcasting Corp. that the book of fairytales had helped her say goodbye to Harry's world.

"It's not about Harry, Ron and Hermione, but it comes from that world," she told BBC radio in an interview broadcast Thursday. "So it's been therapeutic in a way."

Rowling said she was working on a new book, "a half-finished book for children that I think will probably be the next thing I publish."

On Wednesday, Rowling and the makers of the Harry Potter movies filed a lawsuit against RDR Books, a small U.S. publisher that plans to bring out a companion volume based on the Harry Potter Lexicon fan Web site.

Rowling has said she plans to produce her own encyclopedia of the wizarding world and says the book would infringe on her intellectual property rights.

Fast PC Startup tweak

I don't know about you, but I love spending the first 10 minutes of every workday watching Windows start up. It's like a Zen thing. If you'd rather get right to work, though, the following tips should help you make Windows start much more quickly.

Lighten the Load

A typical PC loads a lot of programs every time it starts. Each of the icons in your system tray (the area near your clock) represents an auto-start application. And there are probably other programs on your machine that start automatically but don't make their presence known so easily. Each autoloading app slows your boot time--a little or a lot. And because most of them continue to run in the background, they rob you of a little performance.

Before you start eliminating autoloaders, though, make sure you can undo your changes. In Windows XP, Select Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, System Restore. Select Create a restore point, click Next, call your restore point something like before removing autoloaders, and choose Create. Click Close once you've created the restore point.

In Windows Vista, select Start, Control Panel, System. Under 'Tasks' on the right side of the window, click System Protection. In the System Properties box that comes up, click Create at the bottom of the window.

XP users should now select Start, Run, type msconfig, and press . (In Vista, select Start, type msconfig into the Search box, and press .) Click the Startup tab, and you'll see a list of all your autoloading programs, each with a check box. Uncheck an item, and it will no longer load at startup.

Choose Your Autoloading Apps

Which applications should you leave checked so that they continue to autoload? First and foremost, you don't want to operate without your antivirus, firewall, and other security programs. Yes, these programs slow your PC's boot-up and shutdown, and they can even cause conflicts, but the cost of not having them running is too high to bear.

For any other program in the list, use your judgment. Don't ask yourself "Is it a good program?" but "Does it need to be on all the time?" For instance, I unchecked Adobe Elements' Photo Downloader, a program that I use whenever I download photos from my camera, because it serves no purpose when I'm not downloading photos. On the other hand, I allow Copernic Desktop Search to autoload because it needs to index my data files continually.

After unchecking the programs that you don't need to autoload at startup, click OK and reboot. Windows will load with a very wordy message box that might look like an error message. Just check Don't show this message or launch the System Configuration Utility when Windows starts (the wording is slightly different in Vista) at the bottom of the dialog box and click OK.

Windows Dusting and Cleaning

If an autoloader diet doesn't sufficiently accelerate your boot-up, try these tweaks:

Clean out the Registry. The larger your Windows Registry, the longer the OS will take to boot. My favorite Registry cleaner is ChemTable's $30 Reg Organizer, which is both a powerful Registry editor and a general Windows maintenance tool. If you don't want to pay to put things in order, try the less-powerful EasyCleaner from ToniArts.

Use fewer fonts. Loading hundreds of system fonts takes time. If you have more than 500 fonts on your PC, remove a few. Sue Fisher's free The Font Thing utility will help you whittle your font selection down to size.

Add RAM. Faster hardware means faster boots (and shutdowns, and everything in between). There's no cheaper, more effective way to improve your hardware's performance than by adding RAM. See our video tip, "How to Upgrade Your RAM" for step-by-step instructions.

Quick PC fixes

1. Your Wi-Fi network is now dog-slow. If it's not a network outage, you likely have interference. Try relocating your router to shield it from disruptions such as microwave use or calls from a cordless phone. Or you may be on a crowded channel. Change the channel via your router's configuration page; look for a 'Channel' section and try 1, 6, or 11. See "How to Improve Your Wi-Fi Network's Performance" for more ideas.

2. Your display looks terrible. Check display settings by right-clicking the desktop; choose Properties in XP or Personalize in Vista, then Settings. If you can't increase resolution and color quality, click Advanced, Adapter. If Standard VGA Adapter or another generic adapter is listed, download a driver specific to your PC (see How to Reinstall Windows XP for details on doing this). If your adapter is there, try a prior driver version. In XP, click Properties, Driver, Roll Back Driver; in Vista, open the Personalization Control Panel, choose Display Settings, Advanced Settings, Properties, and click Driver, Roll Back Driver.

3. Your printer is spewing out garbage. A cancelled print job may not have cleared properly from the printer's memory. Turn the printer off for a minute, then back on. While you're waiting, go to Start, Printers and Faxes in XP, or Start, Printers in Vista, to delete anything in the print queue. If the problem continues, download and reinstall the driver.

4. Your default printer is no longer the default. Some apps, like Microsoft's OneNote, install faux-printer-like devices as output options, and some will also unhelpfully make them the default for all print jobs. Select Start, Run, type control printers, and press . Right-click the printer you prefer, and click Set as Default Printer.

5. You see daily, consistent error messages citing memory problems. To check if bad RAM is actually the trouble, download the free MemTest86 and stick it on a boot disk; then run the full battery of tests.

6. Your PC starts up too slowly. Click Start, Run and type msconfig. Then click the Startup tab to see all of the apps that load at startup. Uncheck anything you don't want to start at boot-up--but uncheck programs one at a time, as you need many of these apps to run your PC. (For more on pruning safely, see How to Make Windows Start Up Faster.)

7. Videos play sans audio or image. Your codecs are probably out of date. Get multiple updates via a free pack such as the ACE Mega CodecS Pack or the K-Lite Codec Pack.

8. You broke a key off your keyboard. If part of the key mechanism is broken, consider scavenging an unused key (, perhaps) and use its mechanism with your broken key (Apple's tutorial at PowerBook G4: Keycap Replacement will walk you through the procedure--it should work for almost any keyboard). Replacement keyboards for laptops can usually be found on eBay for $40 or less; many step-by-step guides show how to do the job, such as the one for a Toshiba laptop keyboard at Laptoka.com's page, How to remove and replace laptop keyboard yourself.

9. You bent a pin on one of your PC's ports or cables. Using pliers will probably make things worse, but the tip of a large-diameter mechanical pencil will fit most pins. Just slip it over the bent pin to straighten it out.

10. Folders show only large icons. Change the default in Windows Explorer by setting the right view on any folder, and then click Tools, Folder Options. Click the View tab, then Apply to All Folders (Apply to Folders in Vista).

Virus on phone

Just when you were getting the hang of protecting your computer from viruses they must have sneezed and found your cell phone. One in every 10 phones is now a smart phone—capable of handling data and messaging. That means it's become easy and lucrative for hackers to attack your cell phone. And the dangers are just as real. From 2004 to 2006 the number of phone viruses doubled every month.

According to Symantec, viruses spread on cell phones in a variety of ways: Internet downloads, MMS (multimedia messaging service) attachments, and Bluetooth transfers to name a few. They'll often show up as game downloads, updates to your phone's system, ringtones, or alerts. McAfee Avert® Labs has identified about 450 different variants of mobile threats, and that's not including phishing attacks and spam. According to McAfee research, 83 percent of worldwide carriers have had security incidents in 2007.

What do these viruses do? Reports are trickling in: A Seattle family was watched, monitored, and threatened because of spyware on their cell phone. A man's cell phone content was wiped clean after he downloaded a virus-infested ringtone. Crashes, instable or slower than usual performance, quick battery consumption, incorrect or skyrocketing mobile phone bills, a dramatic increase in messaging charges—any of these could be a virus.

One of the original cell phone viruses (2004) was transmitted through a Bluetooth connection. Like your PC, some phone viruses are just annoying—a popup or a silly joke. Others are a bit more insidious, like the one that resets your phone monthly.

But the latest and most sophisticated crop are what's called "pranking for profit." This can involve things like redirecting your calls to a different carrier in a different country, racking up a hefty phone bill. Or sending an MMS message to everyone in your contact directory, leaving you with enormous extra charges. Or "vishing" when you'll get a voice-call that asks for information, faking it by posing as a legitimate business. A downloaded application may send information about your phone account to hackers. Snoopware (which is spyware on steroids) might capture your keypad clicks.

How do you know you've been infected? Pay attention when your phone starts behaving badly. Are your contacts disappearing? Are your calendar entries gone? Does your phone bill have strange charges?

If so, suspect a virus before you suspect user error.

Next up? We'll look at the new tools from Symantec and McAfee designed to protect your phone from infection.

Google-Powered Phones Out by 2008

As expected, Google won't be building a "Google phone" per se, says the Wall Street Journal; instead, the search behemoth is developing a mobile platform that could shake up the wireless industry.There isn't anything earth-shatteringly new in the Journal article—the idea that Google is preparing a platform for cell phones has been bouncing around for months now—but the story adds a few interesting details about Google's plans and outreach efforts with phone manufacturers and carriers. (Naturally, Google isn't commenting one way or the other about the article.)

Anyway, Google will reportedly announce its mobile plans in about two weeks (or so says the Journal), and those plans call for a bundle of software and services to help hardware manufactures built Google-powered handsets. As predicted, the phones would come with easy access to Google's search engine, as well as Gmail, Google Maps, YouTube, and the like; Google, meanwhile, could make billions by serving up targeted (and even GPS-aided) mobile ads. The search giant also plans to open its platform to third-party development, so we can expect a galaxy of applications that'll tie in to Google's mobile services. The first Google-powered phones could come to market by the middle of the next year, the Journal reports.

So, who's first up to make a Google phone? Most likely HTC and LG, according to the Journal; meanwhile, Google has been cozying up to wireless carriers, including T-Mobile here in the U.S., so it's entirely possible we could see a Google-powered HTC or LG handset in T-Mobile's lineup by 2008.

2009: a 128GB Flash Memory Card

That's good for storing, oh, about 32,000 songs on an iPod Nano-sized MP3 player, or about 77 days of straight music. If only the battery would last that long.Tech columnist Dean Takahashi reports that Samsung has developed new, smaller flash-memory chips that could result in tiny iPods and MP3 players with mammoth storage capacities. (Yes, you can already get 120GB MP3 players, but they all require bulky, delicate hard drives). The 64-gigabit NAND memory chips, designed using a 30-nanometer production process (compared to today's typical 50-namometer process), can be combined into a single 128GB flash-memory card. To put that in some perspective, you could cram about 80 standard-def movies onto one of these new cards (assuming each movie averages 1.6GB, which sounds right for a ripped DVD) or about 30,000 songs (averaging 4MB each). Samsung says it hopes to start shipping the new chips by 2009.

Sounds amazing, right? But how much will the new chips cost? Open question, but at least one analyst thinks Samsung could have a "difficult time" cranking out a substantial number of the chips by the projected 2009 ship date—and that means higher prices.

Wi-fi security system is 'broken'

More holes have been picked in the security measure designed to protect the privacy and data of wi-fi users.

The latest attack lets criminals defeat firewalls and spy on where someone goes and what they do online. It comes after a series of other attacks that, experts say, have left the basic protection in wi-fi comprehensively "broken". But compatibility issues mean that many will have no alternative but to use the much weakened protection system.

Lock picking

The basic security measure in the technical specification for wireless networks, 802.11, is known as Wired Equivalent Privacy. WEP encrypts data flying back and forth between a computer and an access point to stop people spotting and stealing confidential information. It does this using an encryption key but numerous attacks have shown how easy it is to get hold of this key and unlock access to the wi-fi network or your data.

"WEP as a security measure is so broken that your (and everyone else's) kid sister can easily circumvent it," said computer security researcher Ralf-Philipp Weinmann, co-author of the aircrack-ptw tool that can crack WEP in minutes. Anyone caring about their privacy, said Mr Weinmann, should not use WEP to stop others using their wi-fi hotspot. Mr Weinmann and his colleagues unveiled aircrack in early 2007 but prior to that three other research teams, in 2001, 2004 and 2005 showed how to circumvent WEP.

The latest attack, created by Vivek Ramachandran of AirTight Networks, tricks a computer into thinking it is logged on to a wi-fi network it trusts. It exploits the basic hand-shaking system in wi-fi to get hold of lots of data it can analyse to crack a key. While the chance that someone will piggyback on your wi-fi network is low, there have been cases in the UK where this has happened.

In London one man has been arrested and charged under the 2003 Communications Act for using someone else's wi-fi link without permission. Alongside this is the risk of people using your broadband connection for potentially criminal activity. However, said Mark West of the home tech help company Geek Squad, many people are forced into using WEP despite its shortcomings.

"WEP might be all they can run," he said. The well-publicised problems with WEP have resulted in improved security systems for wireless networks known as Wi-fi Protected Access (WPA). An improved version of this, called WPA-2, appeared in 2004 but is not yet widely used.

Mr West said backwards compatibility problems might mean that people cannot opt for the better protection found in WPA or WPA-2. Using either of these requires Windows XP fitted with Service Pack 2, Vista or OS X on the Mac. Linux also supports WPA. Drivers for wi-fi access cards might also need to be updated and the firmware on a hub might also need refreshing. Any other device that tries to link via wi-fi will also need updating.

For many, said Mr West, updating all these separate components could be too much to ask. A spokesman for BT said that it used WEP on its home hub products because of the compatibility issues. "We use WEP for a very sensible reason," said the spokesman, "there are a number of devices out there in the marketplace that do not use WPA."

When helping people install wi-fi networks Geek Squad started trying to use WPA-2 but often had to fall back on the weaker protection. WPA-2 was only made mandatory on wi-fi access points manufactured after September 2006, which means much wireless hardware still relies on WEP. "It's often the lowest common denominator," said Mr West, adding that it was better than nothing.

He said: "It's more of a deterrent that will prevent most people being able to access that router."