The increasing success of hackers means that computer and internet security is one of the few bits of the IT business showing healthy growth rates at the moment.

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The OEMs, as they are referred to in the industry, are the Dells and the Macs of the computer world that come with Norton Internet Security or a McAfee product pre-installed for a temporary time period.

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While known for its Norton suite of computer utilities and anti-virus software, the company has been expanding its offerings of Internet security software for 2001.

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He got his first job writing software at the age of 12, and by 1993, at the age of 24, he formed the Internet security company Check Point with two business partners and a borrowed computer in his associate's grandmother's apartment in Tel Aviv.

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In a notice on the top 10 list, the FBI described him as "a computer expert" with "above-average knowledge regarding computers, the use of the Internet, and security awareness".

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