Content Filtering
How to Stop Email-borne Viruses      
Keep SirThe SirCam virus continues to flow into users' inboxes, disrupting normal email use and increasing the likelihood of infection. One frustrated couple in Australia reported that SirCam attachments were coming in at such a high rate they were quickly exceeding the 15Mb limit imposed by their ISP. To reduce the bandwidth consumption and keep their mailbox below capacity, the enterprising couple had resorted to logging into their account hourly via the web mail interface, deleting any SirCam emails before accessing their account through their regular mail client. (Attempts to persuade their ISP to block the sender had failed, as had attempts to email the sender). Cam and other viruses out of email
 
Content Filtering Comes to DVD      
Maybe the "on/off" button and adult/child dialogue are too low-tech for parents concerned about sexual and scatological references in home-viewed Hollywood films. But it was probably inevitable that content-filtering technology would come to home DVD players, and it has, if in some fairly limited ways.
 
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