| Jan. 03 2008 at 1:34 PM |
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I've told many friends, family members, and neighbors a very simple way to "de-hoaxify" something that lands in your e-mail inbox...
Simply take a sentence from the e-mail, put it in quotes, and run it through Google.
Chances are, if the hoax has been around a while, you'll find several search results giving you the real scoop on the urban legends.
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| Jan. 03 2008 at 2:18 PM |
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I've heard about that also, Another quick note to that is, As the internet continues to grow and web browsers continue to learn from the people. They will be releasing a smart browser, that will be able to sniff fraudulent web sites.
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| Jan. 03 2008 at 4:27 PM |
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McAfee comes with something called SiteAdvisor that installs as a add on to your browser. SiteAdvisor Gives you a Green - Yellow - Red style recommendation for each site. If you do a Google (or other search engine) look up SiteAdvisor appends a recomendation to each link returned.
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| Jan. 03 2008 at 4:55 PM |
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Symantec's Norton Internet Security Suite also has something just like this. The indicator appears on the IE Toolbar and says "Fraud monitoring is on." And it's Green (like Go), at least for StartupNation  Get Free Proven Computer Consulting Tips now at
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