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Basic Webpage Programming
Sid Parker - February 3, 2004
This is an introduction into webpage programming. With this valuable information, you will be able to create basic webpages in no time at all. While most features are far too advanced for this document to detail, every webpage on the Internet uses these same basic principals when designing their webpages. This article will detail the basics needed to create any webpage. With this article, you will be able to program webpages in less than an hour.

SPAM - Beating the Meat
Brandon Parker - June 18, 2002
SPAM is one of two things: The first thing SPAM might be is having your e-mail and other private information put on a mailing list. For this to be SPAM, it had to be a 3rd-party. You may recall signing up for online products and checking or un-checking the box that says "Is it OK for www.whatever.com to submit your information to a 3rd party...". That is what I am talking about. It could be a service that is giving out your information, for which they get quite wealthy, or having an individual sign you up. This is not only wrong, but unethical and in most cases, against the law. Many sites have become aware of this problem which I will address in the next section. The other way SPAM can be described is someone using other individuals accounts without permission. These people get the username and password from an unsuspecting individual and before they know it, their e-mail is being used to send out SPAM to everyone on the SPAMers mailing lists as well as everyone on the accounts address book. These addresses normally go into the pool of SPAM mailing lists, which is why it is so hard to get rid of. You can block this user, but eventually they will go to another individual and SPAM from that account.

Stopping the Spyware
Brandon Parker - July 16, 2001
I first realized that I might have Spyware when I read a review about a piece or freeware that said it connected to a mail server. I figured, I haven’t seen it anywhere else, so, he is not too reliable. I had recently upgraded my firewall from Black Ice Defender, to ZoneAlarm Pro. The reason I did this, was because of a recent article I had read, at ‘http://www.grc.com/‘. His specialty is Internet security, and hackers had just hit his site. He was talking about "bots", which are small programs that run through an IRC channel, and submit back information about the user, or do malicious things to other people. He had written that after his examination, Black Ice Defender had neither protection nor stopping of any bots. He recommended ZoneAlarm Pro, and after what he went through, there were no cut corners. Then one day, I opened up the freeware program I had downloaded and installed. ZoneAlarm popped up asking me if I wanted it to connect to the Internet. Now, there are a few programs that need to connect to the Internet to run, but this was not one of them. That is when my shields went up. I said no, and closed down the program. I then uninstalled it. I then thought it might be a good idea to run a few of the scans that were on ‘http://www.grc.com/‘. I wanted to check for bots, to see it there was any other Spyware. Here are the tests I ran:

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