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With the advent of the World Wide Web, there is now an increasing number of applications on the Internet. Examples are commercial activities such as banking, buying and selling over the Internet, and the exchange of commercial information. Increasingly, more and more information is stored on the net is private and confidential by nature. Traditionally, such information would have been on disparate computer systems not accessable to the general public. Today most are publicly accessable via the Information Superhighway. This pervasiveness is a double-edged sword, with the positives mentioned above.



There exist certain elements in the Internet that will try to invade the commercial sanctity of the Internet by a series of violations that could be described at the best, as a disruption of services on the net, and at worse , the siphoning of funds or valuable information. These are typically viruses, worms, hackers, and electronic spies. These......

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