It's 3 A.M. - Do You Know Where Your Computer's Been?
Sunday Gazette-Mail › October 28, 2007
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Ever wonder what your dog does when he runs off and comes home a few hours later? Elizabeth Marshall Thomas spent about five years following hers around Boston, watching their mating, fighting and playing, then produced one of the masterpieces of animal behavior, "The Hidden Life of Dogs."
With a little more time and effort, I could write a similar tome, "The Hidden Life of Computers." That's because we have about as much control over what our PCs do at night as Thomas did when she turned her pups loose. If you enable various automatic updating options and turn your PC loose on an Internet connection, mysterious genetic behavior begins to express itself. While you're fast asleep, your PC roams the Net, downloading and installing bits and pieces of code, even as your virus and spyware scanners are doing their thing. The computer may even reboot itself.See the full content of this document
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It's 3 A.M. - Do You Know Where Your Computer's Been?
Automatic updates usually work out for the average Windows user. When security gurus detect a potential flaw, they tell Microsoft, giving the company a chance to fix it before the Black Hats figure it out. The ma...
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