prevention

Anyone who uses email knows what Spam is! It's annoying and time consuming to wade through volumes of fraud, con and obscene emails to filter out the really important ones. And I am sure you are affected by this menace in some form or other.

Studies show that people with high EQ (emotional intelligence) are less likely to burn out. Managing our emotions and those of others, and how we react and respond, are crucial to our stress levels, resilience and ability to cope.

These are the days of attacks - virus attacks, terrorist attacks, social, political, religious attacks. The latest worm to hit the Net is the Nimda worm, which is ADMIN spelled backwards. Most of the targets are (but of course!), IIS-servers and Outlook Express users.

I remember when the term "hacker" referred to a computer geek who could transform a mundane electronic device, with a few modifications, into something completely different from what the manufacturer and designer had envisioned for it. In some cases, these were cool improvements and more than one of these hackers made a fortune selling the rights to them. In other cases, the transformation just made you wonder if the guy's horn-rimmed glasses were a little too tight.

Intrusion Prevention 101 Reducing a computer's vulnerability to hackers is much like using anti-theft devices and common sense to guard against your car being broken into.