Is your PC safe from crime? Whether it's a computer virus via email, hackers breaking into your web site, or you using your credit card to buy something online, you are not safe from crime just because you're at home. We'll show you the latest ways to protect your computer and yourself in the digital world.
[Episode #1803, First broadcast: 10/3/1999]
Inter@ctive Week
Silicon Bureau Chief for Inter@ctive Week, Connie Guglielmo, regularly covers consumer issues such as privacy online, spam and companies building databases that may be used in ways that could hurt the consumer in the future. Connie also takes us to BizRate.com which ranks consumer product websites by those who have previously shopped there.
California Department of Corporations
Andrew Holmes is part of a small state agency, the California Department of Corporations, combating securities fraud on the Internet. California is one of about two dozen states that has special teams dedicated to rooting out Internet securities scams, such as companies selling bonds over the Internet to supposedly finance research. Andrew clicks us through the California Department of Corporations site which features guidelines for investors and links to related sites such as the National Fraud Center and the SEC, that helps potential online investors do their homework before they give anyone their money.
SRI International
Donn B. Parker has spent 30 years as a cybercrime fighter, working as a computer security expert for SRI International. He is also the author of the 1998 book, Fighting Computer Crime. With help from colleagues, a network penetration demonstration shows us how one can take control of someone else's web server and alter a web site that captures private logging-in information.
McAfee.com
McAfee.com is the next generation of internet services for updating, upgrading and managing PCs and provides downloadable virus checkers that will prevent some viruses from getting on your computer. McAfee Gen
