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How to Stop Spyware

Spyware and Adware programs can be installed on your PC without your knowledge. These programs may be stealing personal information about you and/or slowing down your computer's performance and Internet connection speed.
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Mail server blocking

NC.net actively engages in blocking mail servers on the Internet that have been designated as willfully or unknowingly engaging in distributing unsolicited e-mails or messages containing viruses.
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VIRUSES: Old and Busted.

As the occurrence of malicious viruses continues to increase, it is becoming more important to safeguard computers. NC.net employs a wide variety of virus blocking techniques, which reduce the potential for viruses being delivered to your NC.net e-mail address; these techniques include screening, scanning, and teamwork.
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Spam: Busted.

There are many ways to reduce the amount of junk e-mail that gets delivered to your NC.net address. Junk e-mails are any unsolicited messages that are sent to your e-mail address which are not wanted; these messages are commonly called "spam." Since not all spam filtering methods are effective or appropriate for everyone, we have built tools that allow our customers to customize many of their own filtering settings.
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Stopping pop-up windows

Almost all pop-up windows are intended to advertise something to you. The ads are generally caused by two different methods, which are described below.
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What is NC.net doing to reduce Spam?

During the six month period between October of 2002 and March of 2003, MSNBC estimated that the amount of Junk E-mail (Spam) sent in the U.S. doubled (MSNBC Article).
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sanction
\SANK-shun\
verb

to make valid or binding usually by a formal procedure (as ratification)



to give effective or authoritative approval or consent to

Example Sentence
The parks committee was willing to sanction the consumption but not the sale of alcohol on park premises. "Sanction" can also be a noun meaning "authoritative approval" or "a coercive measure." The noun entered English first, in the 15th century, and originally referred to a formal decree, especially an ecclesiastical decree. (The Latin "sancire," meaning "to make holy," is an ancestor.) By the end of the 17th century, the meaning of the noun "sanction" had extended to refer to both a means of enforcing a law (a sense that in the 20th century we began using especially for economic penalties against nations violating international law) and the process of formally approving or ratifying a law. When the verb "sanction" appeared in the 18th century, it had to do with ratifying laws as well. Soon it had also acquired an additional, looser sense: "to approve."

*Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.

The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body.

Bacon (1561-1626) English Philosopher, Essayist, and Statesman