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GRAPHICS THROWDOWN Intel’s X48 Unveiled! Will it become the ultimate DDR3 chipset? HOW TO CONTROL YOUR PC— From anywhere in the ...

The Maximum PC promise to readers Contents Ed Word Please send feedback and those chalky Valentine’s candies to [email protected] ...

MAXIMUMPC Quick Start Intel releases its fastest quad-core processor— and a mobo to go with it ......................... 08 Head ...

quick start THE BEGINNING OF THE MAGAZINE, WHERE ARTICLES ARE SMALL W ith the Phenom reception going phenomenally badly (see our ...

quickquick startstart THE BEGINNING OF THE MAGAZINE, WHERE ARTICLES ARE SMALLTHE BEGINNING OF THE MAGAZINE, WHERE ARTICLES ARE S ...

Microblogging Defi nition: The practice of posting brief, regular updates about your thoughts, ideas, or activities, which can b ...

M ichael Bay is accusing Microsoft of backing HD DVD just to keep a format war raging. In a forum post on MichaelBay.com, the di ...

W ay back in the day—the 1990s!—photography was a cumber- some hobby that required trips to the drugstore for film pro- cessing ...

And the Winner Is... STORING Both Picasa and Flickr have free storage options, but power users might want to pony up for extra s ...

watch dodogg MAXIMUM PC TAKES A BITE OUT OF BAD GEAR dog WHERE THE HELL IS MY IPOD? Dog, I have been taken to the cleaners by iP ...

watch dodogg MAXIMUM PC TAKES A BITE OUT OF BAD GEAR dog Woodhams told the Dog that “automatically generated email is sent at 45 ...

18 MAXIMUMPC | FEB 08 | http://www.maximumpc.com With PC threats continually evolving & multiplying, is it time to upgrade o ...

http://www.maximumpc.com | FEB 08 | MAMAMAXIMXIMXIMXIMUUUUMMPPPCC 19 ILLUSTRATION BY ADAM BENTON 2 0 Security ...

20 e’ve had our share of “uh-oh” moments, when curiosity superseded our better judgment and we impulsively clicked a sus- piciou ...

ust surfi ng the Internet can be enough to infect your system and grant malware uninvited access to your hard drive. But what ab ...

orton takes a different approach to next-gen secu- rity than both BufferZone and ForceField. Rather than employ virtualization t ...

nything you can do I can do bet- ter.” We suspect PC Tools has a motivational poster bearing this catchphrase in its board room, ...

20 here’s no quicker way to infect your system than to tread online without the aid of a fi rewall. Unscrupulous saboteurs the w ...

Today’s malware continues to evolve at an alarming rate, and only a handful of next-generation security applications have passed ...

32 MAXIMUMPC | FEB (^08) | http://www.maximumpc.com MAXIMUMPC CHALLENGE ANOTHER VIDEOCARD IMAGE-QUALITY SHOOTOUT ...