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In the February 2008 issue, you can find:

    * Internet Security 2.0
    * Nvidia and ATI Throw Down
    * Hands-On with Phenom
    * How To: Access your PC from Anywhere
    * And 12 Awesome Product Reviews!
    * Ask the Doctor
    * Rig of the Month
    * The Watchdog
    * And a whole lot more!

Internet Security 2.0
—BY PAUL LILLY

Whether you know it or not, you’re constantly under attack by nefarious netizens. Why? Because your computer contains a gold mine of goodies just waiting to be exploited by wrongdoers.

Everything from your banking information and credit card numbers to your processor cycles and Internet connection are valuable commodities sought after by online thieves.

We’re talking about denial of service (DoS) attacks, threats to your fi nances, and all-out identity theft. And if that weren’t enough, the culprits are continually developing new and increasingly complex techniques to take over your system for their personal gain, spurring an arms race between the digital crooks and the PC security vendors cashing in on the mayhem. But just how much protection do you really need? ...

Download Maximum PC Magazine, February 2008

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ED WORD: The Maximum PC promise to readers

There’s been a lot of Internet hubbub about editorial integrity recently. Exactly what “integrity” means is shifting at many publications—print and online—as barriers between editorial and advertising begin to blur. Luckily for me, Maximum PC still operates under the same rules we’ve had since I started working here more than seven years ago. Lest there be any misconceptions about where we stand, it’s time to reiterate our no-BS standards:

Our editorial and advertising departments operate independently

We maintain complete separation between the folks who create the editorial content and the people who sell the ads.

We’re very serious about this, and, in fact, our whole company is structured to protect this separation. I report directly to our editorial director (former Maximum PC Editor in Chief Jon Phillips), and he reports directly to the company president. The germane factor here is that I don’t report to someone in ad sales, and if anyone on the sales team ever wanted to escalate complaints about our content, he would have to go through Phillips, who would take the issue to the president. Thanks to the integrity of our sales team, our church-state separation has remained pure during my entire tenure at Future US. ...

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