Urban legends in the online age
11/15/99, PAUL GILSTER, Nando. Phony e-mail messages about everything from virus attacks to cookie recipes abound on the Internet. They're usually just sent out as pranks, to see how big a ripple they can produce in the information pond. And when gullible people fall for them, they create urban myths -- stories that aren't remotely true, yet are believed by numerous people because they're so well circulated.
www.techserver.com/noframes/story/0,2294,500057455-500094676-500365533-0,00.html

Plugged-In: Internet Privacy Advocates Raise Alarm
11/8/99, Aaron Pressman, Reuters. A public workshop organized by the Federal Trade Commission will examine complaints about so-called profiling, or the practice of tracking consumers' movements online and compiling databases of their activities for use in marketing.
news.excite.com/news/r/991108/16/net-column-pluggedin

Computer World Battles Faster-Moving Viruses
10/4/99, ASHLEY DUNN, Times Staff Writer. A new generation of self-spreading computer viruses has researchers worried that the days of slow-moving, low-level infections are over. Since the creation of computer viruses in the mid-1980s, thousands of them have come and gone, most dying before causing any damage.
www.latimes.com/HOME/BUSINESS/CUTTING/t000089107.html

These Web sites know your past
10/13/99, Michael Moss, WSJ Interactive Edition. Brian Dunham has a hot Internet business idea, but he worries that someone will steal it. So last month, the 31-year-old San Franciscan blocked potential competitors from finding his brand-new Web site.
www.zdnet.com/filters/printerfriendly/0,6061,2352917-2,00.html

NT security busted by new virus threat
10/8/99, Sean Fleming, The Register. Worried systems managers are facing what is thought to be the first virus to integrate with NT's security protocols.
www.theregister.co.uk/991008-000014.html

Two New Melissa Viruses Identified
10/13/99, Maura Ginty, InternetNews. An alert was issued Tuesday for two variants of the infamous Melissa virus, which took down more than 100,000 computers earlier this year.
www.internetnews.com/bus-news/print/0,1089,3_217381,00.html

The Web? I Just Surf It for the Articles
9/24/99, Time Daily. The FTC cries foul as hackers' ploy sends unwitting web users to pornographic sites.
www.pathfinder.com/time/daily/0,2960,31433-101990923,00.html

How to keep your Web-savvy kids from harm
9/25/99, DAVID ZGODZINSKI, The Montreal Gazette. Kids are often more computer literate than their parents. This puts the parent at an extreme disadvantage when it comes to making rules about using the Internet.
www.montrealgazette.com/technology/pages/990925/2909916.html

Issue of Web copyright hotly debated
9/20/99, Boston Globe, Mercury Center. Picture this: A scientist spends years compiling the world's largest book of poison antidotes. Then, shortly after it's published, he turns on his computer to find a competing researcher has photocopied the book, posted it to a Web page and splashed it across the Internet.
www.mercurycenter.com/breaking/docs/075686.htm

How Web News Sites Can Be Ready for Disasters
9/27/99, Steve Outing, E&P Interactive. Here's some advice for news Web sites to help prepare for the inevitable day when a tornado, hurricane, earthquake, mass shooting, or some other horrible event makes national headlines and puts your local community in the national and international spotlight.
www.mediainfo.com/ephome/news/newshtm/stop/stop.htm