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Protect yourself online: the biggest threats & the best solutions.
Several major Internet risks--spam, spyware, and virus infections--have declined significantly over the past few years, our new State of the Net survey has found.
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But Internet threats are still of great concern, according to our research and national survey of 2,071 online households conducted this past spring by the Consumer Reports National Research Center. Consider these findings:
* The odds of becoming a cybervictim have dropped to 1 in 6, from 1 in 4 last year. Still, American consumers lost almost $8.5 billion and replaced about 2.1 million computers because of viruses, spyware, and e-mail scams over the two years ...
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