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Author :: Randall Stafford  |
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| Article Title :: If You Steal It, They May Come! |
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| Business on the internet is getting down right shameless. This week, my email box was literally filled with hype, overly inflated promises, phish mail, scams, ezines I did not order, and about 14 viagra gimmicks. This makes you wonder what your going to get if you click in the wrong place. What’s worse is you may get the same thing several times from different people.Did you know that there is software on the internet that can find duplicates of your personal work? If you didn’t, then believe me, eventually you will own it. Plagiarism is becoming quite popular on the internet these days. You would think that people have used up all the original ideals.Every once in (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: John Lenaghan |
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| Article Title :: The 5 Critical Steps to Protecting Your Computer on the Internet |
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| Spyware, viruses and worms... oh my!If you are connected to the internet, you need to make sure you get your computer set up properly if you want to avoid problems down the road.With all the viruses, spyware and other threats on the internet today, no computer should be set up without the proper protection.And that protection needs to be in place as soon after you hook up your new machine as possible.The following five steps will make your computer a much harder target for threats. You still won't be completely immune to problems, but 99% of the time the threat will pass you by, looking for the easy mark.1. Running a Personal FirewallA personal fi (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Alexandra Gamanenko |
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| Article Title :: Why Malicious Programs Spread So Quickly? |
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| It seems that nowadays cybercriminals prefer cash to fun. That is why malicious programs of various kinds (viruses, worms, Trojan horses, etc.) are very often aimed at stealing valuable -- in a direct sense of this word -- private and financial information. When written, these programs are spread all over the Web.What do means of their distribution have in common? Thinking a bit about it will help us ordinary Web users realize how to behave online and what to avoid.Let's use logic and good old common sense. What do you think are the most suitable (for a criminal)means to spread malicious code? The answer is almost obvious. It is something which, first,ensures his anonymit (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Nowshade Kabir |
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| Article Title :: Lottery Scam, What It is and how to Avoid It? |
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| Internet scams and frauds are on the rise! The quantity of scam
emails with various fraud schemes any email account receives
today is simply overwhelming! There is this infamous Nigerian
419 scam, which is by far the most widely circulated one. I wrote
about it in one of our ezine articles not long ago. You can read
about it here! And there are many other scams like Lottery, Letter
of Credit, money transfer, black money conversion, real estate,
fraudulent order and the list goes on and on.Looking at my daily doze of scam letters, looks like, the lottery
scam seams to be gaining popularity among the con artists. This
scam is similar to other forward fee schemes, where the g (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Krishna Pai |
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| Article Title :: Don't Allow Hackers to Take Out Money from Your Bank Account |
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| If you know what is the 'Fishing' then it's very easy
to understand the definition of 'Phishing'. Just
replace letter 'F' from the word Fishing with 'Ph'.
Yes I am not joking. I mean it! Phishing is higher
level of spam. Phishing is nothing but fishing in
the sea of Internet. The victimized Net users are
the fishes hooked by the hackers.Phishing & Spoof Web sitesThe role of hacker is to lure the innocent Netizens by
sending an e-mail from spoof sites, pseudo claiming to
be an legitimate enterprise in an attempt to force the
user into surrendering private information such as
password, credit card number, and social security
number etc; which will be used for identity theft (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Soroush King |
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| Article Title :: Adware and Spyware: The Problems and Their Solutions |
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| The Threat10 years ago you could probably have run no Internet security applications and still have come out after a browse of the Internet with a virus and malware free computer, but this situation is no longer apparent. Several years ago, before I knew of the dangers of the Internet, I had absolutely no spyware or adware protection. After about 3 months of heavy Internet browsing, I decided to install Adaware Personal Edition and Spybot Search & Destroy, and after 1 scan of each, I truly realised the potential of the Internet. After just 3 moths of Internet browsing, I had gathered over 9000 different spyware and adware products. So if I can gather 9000 unwanted pro (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Daniel Nethersole |
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| Article Title :: Virus and Adware - Fix them Both! |
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| We all get the odd virus now and then, but sometimes that one virus could cause so many problems. In this article I shall be going though just some of the problems that these virus software programs can do, and how to fix them.One of the worst type of virus is one that effects the Boot Config, if this happens you will notice an error such as "Invalid boot sector" or "unaccessable boot device", there are many other errors for the same problem, if you don't get even a windows loading screen then your issue may be the Boot Config, sounds like a hard problem to fix don't it, infact its pretty easy. For this we shall need a Windows XP install CD, if your computer never come with one the (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Kai Chandler |
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| Article Title :: The Top Twelve Threats No Computer User Should Ignore |
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| The internet is undoubtedly a fantastic resource for families and offers a rich vein of educational content.However, there are potential dangers - welcome to the seedy world of viruses, spam, trojans, pornography, spyware and other nasties.These are the Top Twelve Threats No Computer User Should Ignore.1. Viruses - A computer program that copies itself. They often disrupt your computer system or damage your data. Viruses are usually received by email attachments so be careful opening anything from a dubious source. They can affect anyone, for example, the destructive Mydoom worm affected one out of three small and mid-sized businesses. (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Mike Christy |
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| Article Title :: Everything You Need To Know About Spyware and Malware |
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| You are at your computer, checking out software on EBay. The computer is really sluggish, and you are not running anything else. You click on a link, and BLAM you are redirected to a search page you’ve never heard of and the “back” button won’t work.You’ve got Spyware! Just what is “Spyware?” The word brings to mind exploding pens and shoe phones. In fact, software makers have struggled to define what spyware is, and is not.The Anti-Spyware Coalition, a group of companies that include EarthLink, Microsoft, and Hewlett-Packard, have recently published a document that defines spyware as such: “Spyware impairs users control over material changes that affect thei (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: George W. Cannata |
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| Article Title :: A New Low |
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| A new variation of the Nigerian Scam theme
The scam artists are employing the Nigerian Scam to fleece unwary sellers who advertise pets for sale.This is particularly despicable because not only are people losing their money but dogs are being abandoned in freight terminals or being killed to get rid of them.Unsuspecting dog breeders have been caught off guard by this now well advertised scams as complaints are still numerous. These are usually high value dogs so the losses are often substantial.These thieves are very clever and are well prepared. They have fine tuned this system of fraud, so it's easy for the unwary to be duped. They're extremely p (read full article) |
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