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To keep your e-mail secure in such environments, you’ll need to encrypt your messages. Encryption used to be difficult to implement but encryption tools have evolved — and integration with the most popular e-mail programs has improved to where anyone who wants or needs can adopt it without too much hassle. Mozilla’s free Thunderbird e-mail program, for instance, has encryption capabilities built in.
First, you’ll have to get yourself a personal e-mail certificate, which is the cornerstone of any e-mail encryption scheme, and guarantees the authenticity of messages that you send. You can get a free e-mail certificate at Thawte.com (http://www.thawte.com/secure-email/personal-email-certificates/index. html).
After you sign up, you’ll receive a verification e-mail message to which you must respond. In the process of verifying, you choose the e-mail program you wish to use, and you’ll be given brief instructions on how. You then download the file onto your PC and import it into your e-mail program, which should have further instructions for installation and use.
Both you and your recipient must have certificates in order to exchange encrypted e-mail messages. Once set up, however, it’s a simple one-click affair to send an encrypted e-mail message.
Q: How can I password-protect files on my PC?
A: Password-protection of files can sometimes be done at the application level.
In Microsoft Word, for example, you can require that a password be used to open a file. In the Tool menus, select Options, and then from the Security tab in the Options dialog box, supply a password in the “Password to open” box. Consult the Help file of other mainstream applications for similar tools.
Of course, you might want to password-protect other kinds of files, too. One way is to use a file compression utility such as WinZip, and assign a password to the resulting zip file. Or you could enlist the help of a third-party utility that will encrypt files and folders for you. AxCrypt (http://www.axantum.com/AxCrypt) is free, available in 10 languages, and after installation allows you to right-click a file and encrypt it immediately.
The legendary 29A virus programmer group is no more. According to a posting by long-time member Virusbuster on 29A’s web page there is no longer any contact between group members. Therefore, according to the posting the last remaining member decided to dissolve the group. Activities ceased in July 2007 when several members left the group and only three virus experts remained.
Anti-virus specialists assume that one reason for the group’s downfall is the now almost complete commercialisation of the malware scene, which has driven some virus authors into the arms of organised crime. Virus authors and botnet operators are increasingly being sent to prison for their activities, which doesn’t exactly make belonging to such a group more attractive – even if they are only amateurs like 29A.
29A’s demo viruses tended to be pioneering because they demonstrated the feasibility of viruses for various operating systems and technologies. The group, whose name is hexadecimal for 666, was responsible for the Cabir smart phone virus, early viruses for Windows 2000, for the 64-bit versions of Windows and for NTFS Alternate Data Streams, as well as Win32.Winux, a malware sample for Windows and Linux. Their malware never contained malicious routines and only demonstrated distribution methods and infection vectors. In its active period, the group published several online magazines with articles about virus programming. However, group member Marek “Benny” Strihavka, among others, did finish up in prison for one of the hacks.
