Experts say hackers are attracted to home computers

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• [quote}THE FIFTH ESTATE: Hackers

Experts say hackers are attracted to home computers for several reasons:

• they are now just as powerful as business computers, with enough memory and processing power to make them perfect staging areas for Internet attacks
• a growing number are connected to the Internet though high-speed lines that remain open all the time. Computers left on around-the-clock are vulnerable
• home users are slow to secure their computers with the latest anti-virus[unquote] go to Here: http://www.cbc.ca/news/story/2002/01/03/hackershome_020103.html
  

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