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TopWalls VS. TSS2000


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Topwalls has movie pictures, celebrity photographs, and a crowd of scantily-clad women and beefcake men. This wallpaper site is sure to appeal to your libido or your inner movie fan!
For sexiness issue, the Topwalls.com site ranks second of five wallpaper sites this month. Be careful, though: your boss might not like you having a sizzling desktop.
TSS2000 is the one site in this list that requires you to sign up as a free member. At first, I was hesitant to join yet another service on the Web, but TSS is absolutely worth it! It takes about 5 minutes to sign up and retrieve your password, and then the glorious wallpaper begins!
The artwork on this site is stunning. From classic photos of Sinatra and the Godfather, to haunting imagery of nightscapes, to sexy women and fast cars, to magnificent original artwork… this site has it all. TSS2000.nl is easily the number 1 web site this month for free computer wallpaper.

Posted by Greg on August 18th, 2008

Paranoia: The Best Defense Against E-Mail Attacks

Here is a question:

I love the Toshiba laptop I bought last year. I keep just about everything related to work, school, and my finances on it. So when I received an e-mail from Toshiba warning that my model may have a data-threatening memory defect, I was anxious to find out whether my machine was affected. A link in the message took me to a Toshiba Web page, which promised to download a utility to my PC that would check for a defective memory module. All I had to do was click one button.

But just as I was about to click that button, a doubt bubbled up from the depths of my digital credulity. Could the whole thing be a scam? Was I about to download and install a Trojan horse, backdoor program, or worm? As it turned out, it wasn’t a trick: Toshiba really did send out an e-mail containing an embedded link leading to an executable file download located at a long, complex Web address…

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Posted by Greg on January 10th, 2008