by Kim Zetter and Dylan F. TweneyFrom the April 2003 issue of PC World magazine
[author's note: Kim wrote the main story; I wrote the six sidebars, the text of which is reproduced below. Be sure to get the magazine to see the excellent illustrations by Hal Mayforth!]

Internet Fixes
 
E-Mail Programs: Insulate Your In-Box

Microsoft Outlook: Security vulnerabilities [...]

The Bork edition of the Opera Web browser behaves differently on one Web site: MSN. When you visit that site, the browser translates it into the language of the Muppet Show’s Swedish Chef.

I finally figured out how to override those nasty, tiny, fixed-point size fonts in Internet Explorer.

Clay Shirky observes that the popularity of weblogs follows a power law: A few popular blogs get the most links and the most traffic; most blogs get very little of either. Jason Kottke makes the same argument, with better graphics. Dave Winer, typically, misreads Shirky’s essay (probably because it was too long and used too [...]