Viruses are programs that run on your computer and do undesirable things. Some infect or delete files, causing your computer to stop functioning or destroying years of work. Others send copies of themselves to everyone in your email address book. There are thousands of viruses, each of which does different things.
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Everyone has received email messages that warn about the “latest deadly computer virus” or that promise “prize money” for forwarding the message to friends. Such messages are hoaxes that seek to dupe unsuspecting computer users. Fortunately, such hoaxes are easy to identify.
Email hoaxes/scares often have some of the following characteristics:
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Brain CandyGoogle will once again be offering Summer of Code. Students receive a stipend to work on open source software development. Better than a lot of summer jobs we can think of!
Many colleges and universities are posting recorded lectures. We particularly like Apple's iTunes U product. Both Berkeley and Stanford offer entire courses free online!