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Author :: Nigel Wong  |
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| Article Title :: Secure Your PC From Hackers, Viruses, and Trojans |
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| Viruses, Trojans and Spyware: Protecting yourself.No user on the internet is safe from assault. Viruses, Trojans and Spyware can all effect your computer by placing annoying ads, tracking your credit card numbers, or even slow it down to a certain extent it is deemed no longer usable. By following through these simple steps, you can help protect yourself from the internet.High CPU Usage: If your computer seems to be slower than usual, it is very likely that you have been infected. Background services can slow down your computer, and to check performance, enter Task Manager (Ctrl+Alt+Delete). Then, click on the processes tab. You will be able to see active processes that are (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Patti Santee |
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| Article Title :: How Free Scripts Can Create Security Problems |
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| With the Internet entering our lives in such an explosive manner, it was inevitable that Internet security issues would follow as well. While credit card frauds are an offline security problem that has been carried over to the Internet as well, spamming and phishing are uniquely Internet security hazards.Spammers are an Internet phenomenon that have been given great encouragement by the distribution of free scripts. Free scripts and free downloadable software are one of the greatest attractions of the web. Unfortunately, they are also one of the biggest security risks the Internet offers.Spammers use free scripts to their advantage very ingenuously. Refer-a-Friend scripts ar (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Alexandra Gamanenko |
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| Article Title :: Cybercriminals' Trick: Targeted Trojan-Containing Emails |
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| Threats we ordinary Web users face online leave us no choice but learn. Haven't you noticed how many new things you learned lately? We are much better informed about malicious programs than just a year ago.This section of our vocabularies grows rapidly: now we all know what a "keylogger" is,"worm" for us has something to do not only with zoology, nor a "Trojan Horse" with Ancient Greek literature. We are getting better at avoiding such scams as phishing, and this word doesn't look like a spelling mistake anymore.We Web users are getting smarter -- at least the numbers from the recent survey by the Pew Internet and American Life Project say so. The study shows that 91% of res (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Mike Ameye |
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| Article Title :: Is Your Email Private? Part 1 of 3 |
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| In a word, no - an email message has always been nothing more than a simple text message sent unencrypted to a recipient we choose. So all the email that we so blithely send all over the Internet everyday is neither private nor secure. Every birthday greeting or Dear John email, every complaint, rant or verbal purge we may have sent to our employers, credit companies, congressman or customer service rep is subject to delivery errors or outright interception.How can this be? To answer that we need to understand how email works. For the vast majority of email users today, the email system they use consists of two servers providing incoming and outgoing services, SMTP and POP3. (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Darren Miller |
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| Article Title :: Worm_Grew.A Threat, Hype, or Dud? |
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| The Worm_Grew.A Virus Got Allot Of Attention
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The 3rd has come and gone. What has been the real effect or impact of the “WORM_GREW.A (Also know as Nyxem, BlackMal, MyWife, and so on)” virus? For weeks there has been tons of warnings, in the news, print, e-zines, you name the forum and it has been a discussion topic. Current information indicates that the WORM_GREW.A virus has not caused mass destruction as promised or suspected. I’m sure some of those 600,000 or so suspected infected computers were impacted, but who really knows at this point.
Viruses Can Impact You In Various Ways
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Alexandra Gamanenko |
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| Article Title :: Phishing-Based Scams: A Couple of New Ones |
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| Phishing in its "classic" variant is relatively well-known. Actually, 43.4 % of adults have already been contacted by phishers, says the survey released on May, 17 by First Data Corp.Despite the sad fact that about 5% of phishing attempts are successful for fraudsters, PC users are getting more cautious about bogus e-mails asking for personal and/or financial information.As public awareness of phishing methods grows, phishers are inventing new tactics in an attempt to delude people.Yet Another Phishing Scheme: Don't Fax Back, PleaseOn August 10, 2005 experts from SophosLabs warned us users about a new phishing trick. No bogus websites this time: phishers (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Steve Freedman |
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| Article Title :: Money Mule Email Scam Hits U.S. |
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| Imagine this – you open up your email box and an international company is offering you a dream job – you can be an agent for them – a financial intermediary – receiving payments for them and transferring money to them, and, naturally, keeping a commission on each transaction.There’s no investment, no money required. They are just looking for people with a good reputation that they can trust with their money.The company needs a local agent because US banking laws restrict the accounts that a foreign company has, unless they have a U.S. citizen as a registered agent of the company.It sounds really good. After all, the company is overseas and it needs a U.S. (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Eric Graves |
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| Article Title :: Viruses, Trojans, and Spyware - Oh My! |
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| Have you ever had to call Symantec or McAfee to ask them how to remove a virus? Or have you spent hours online trying to figure out how to remove spyware, only to find out that you did something wrong and now your computer won’t boot? I know your pain and frustration with just trying to use your computer without worry. As a computer technician at ARCH Computing Services, I know how hard it can be to pay someone to remove viruses and spyware. In fact that’s how I started in the computer business. I didn’t want to pay someone to fix the problems that I usually caused. A little voice in my head told me “I can build a computer, it doesn’t look that hard!”Six years lat (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Heris Yunora |
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| Article Title :: How to Know Whether an Email is a Fake or Not |
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| A few nights ago I received an email from "2CO" asking me to update my personal data. The sender did not forget to insert a link to log in, too.Following are the steps that I have usually taken to discover whether an email came from a rightful person/company or a swindler:Position the mouse pointer above the link provided by the sender(PLEASE DO NOT CLICK IT!). See on the status bar whether the URL that appears is genuine.If you use Outlook Express, in the message list, select the suspected message. click "File", and then click "Properties". Click "Details" to see the email headers.Notice the "Return-path" part, where you will see the sender's original email a (read full article) |
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| Category :: Security Articles |
Author :: Matthew Keegan |
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| Article Title :: 3 Pervasive Phishing Scams |
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| Scams involving email continue to plague consumers across America, indeed the world. These so called "phishing" scams involve "spoofed" emails meant to draw the unwary to bogus internet sites masquerading as legitimate sites. These scam artists -- phishers -- attempt to hook visitors in by having them divulge certain critical and personal bits of information. Once the information has been divulged the phishers start their dirty work and you have been conned. Several phishing scams continue to persist, the following are three of the most pervasive ones.1. Financial Institutions. It is highly likely that you have already received this type of notice which appears to have come (read full article) |
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