Neil J. Rubenking

ZoEmail is a Web-based e-mail service that makes two ambitious promises: Youll never get spam, and youll never miss valid mail. It accomplishes this feat using a mature and thorough implementation of the disposable e-mail address (DEA) concept. The service offers just about everything youd expect in a stand-alone e-mail client: address book, spell-checking, user-defined […]

If you use Microsoft Outlook, heres a tip that may help eliminate some spam. Unless you check all the setting options in Outlook, you might unknowingly be replying to spammers. How? Select Options from the Tools menu, click on the E-mail Options button, then click on the Tracking Options button. Make sure that Always send […]

Ircas Alarm, from Rombouts Electronics, turns your Webcam-equipped PC into a burglar alarm. When the camera detects motion, the software notifies you by e-mail, SMS, or WAP-enabled phone. You can then log in to the built-in server and view images saved by the software. External hardware, such as key switches, door/window alarms, and emergency buttons […]

Lava Softwares PC-Mac PasswordVault 2.0 stores username and password information for Web sites in a secure but easily-accessible software vault. Users need only remember the master password—and if they do forget it, the product allows recovery through a series of personalized questions. The programs data is easily exported for backup or transfer to another computer. […]

PrivacyKeyboard for Workstations 3.1 from Raytown Corp. LLC protects against all types of software- and hardware-based keyloggers. It protects privacy by blocking suspicious activities, such as keystroke capture, screen capture, and copying text from the screen. To evade hardware-based keyloggers, it provides a secure virtual on-screen keyboard. As a result, it can block both known […]

The article “Quickly Lock the Computer” offers a workaround for the fact that you can no longer lock a Windows XP machine by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del followed by Enter. Quite a few puzzled readers wrote in, because they found this key combination still works for them precisely the same way it did under Windows 2000. Why […]

Microsoft will release Service Pack 2 for Windows XP (both Home and Professional) in the first half of 2004. Our look at the beta version, released to testers in December, revealed a number of interesting security enhancements in Web browsing, e-mail, and networking. The beta is, of course, a work in progress—the final version may […]

Your advice in the issue of June 17 regarding browser restriction to a single domain is fairly extreme. Most browsers (IE and all Mozilla flavors, at least) have a built-in feature that will accomplish this task much more easily. Just set your browser to use a nonexistent proxy server. In IEs Internet Options dialog, go […]

In Microsoft Word 2002, when I select Properties from the File menu and click on the Summary tab, I see information I dont always want to share with others. For example, how do I clear the company and author lines? What if I want my e-mail to be anonymous? Is there any way to accomplish […]

For the past month, I have been receiving e-mail with addresses similar to but not exactly mine in the To: field. Supposing my address were My_name1, Ive received mail for My_name143, My_ name1guy, and other variations. These messages are all spam. I suspect that I may not be receiving mail properly addressed to me, but […]

You can force Windows 2000 and XP to display the blue screen of death. Hopefully, the only reason to do this is that youll never see it otherwise! In the Registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESystem CurrentControlSetServicesi8042prtParameters, find or create a DWORD value named CrashOnCtrlScroll. Double-click on the value and set its data to 1. Restart your computer. […]

Is there a way to make the Outlook Express in-box private, using a password? Arturo Meneses You can password-protect your in-box using OEs Identities feature. From the menu select File | Identities | Add New Identity. Define a secondary identity, which you will not actually use; do nothing but give it a name. Do not […]