How do you avoid being cheated by cyber criminals

Feb. 17, 2011 - PRLog -- Cyber Criminals have become increasingly adept at using news and social climate to lure Internet users to download harmful software and hand over personal information. Here are tips on how to prevent your suffering! http://laptopsbattery.co.uk/toshiba-pa3191u-2brs.htm

In Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet, you can now read an article on how cyber criminals exploiting the poor economic climate in the world, by adapting their attacks to include promises of loans, employment and other income. Another recent example is how they used Michael Jackson and Patrick Swayze's death. http://www.battery-mag.us/lenovo-ibm-thinkpad-r61.htm

Cyber criminals use different channels to send out a message with a link to a dangerous website. Web pages can either try to infect your computer with viruses, or they may try to get you to surrender your personal information. Most common is the attempt to deceive the login information, and it does so by posting a copy of a famous site - such as up - and then hoped for the user to believe that the hen is on the up and fill in their details. http://laptopsbattery.co.uk/sony-vgp-bps9.htm



An example of this kind of attack is the one that occurred against the MSN Messenger user, where cyber criminals through a message claiming that you could find out which other users are blocked or deleted one yourself from their contact lists. The only thing you need to do is log on to one side. There were, however, nothing to download.Instead you just gave away their credentials to those who made the attack. This information is then sold on the black market. Trying to fool the data is called phishing( phishing ).

Be very critical

Cyber criminals use primarily by e-mail to spread their garbage. Do you have a good email client, your anti-spam protection to most of these emails, but you get something that seems suspicious - do not open it, and click anywhere in the world not on some links. It is possible to fake the sender of the e-mail, so even if the sender is someone you know, it does not mean that the message is really from that person.



It is becoming more common for cyber-criminals use social networks to post messages. It's up, MySpace, Twitter and similar services. The reason is that people are much more likely to click on the link that appears to come from the contacts they have on social networks. The same thing that the e-mail - it is not at all certain that the message is from the person who it is. Although it is harder to fake a sender in these cases, but cyber criminals have access to lots of different accounts of social sites, after being tricked into the people's login information.

If something seems suspicious, be suspicious. If this is an offer that sounds too good to be true, then it is surely there.

A common method to get people to click through is to display a fake warning message about viruses. If you get a warning about the virus attack, and this warning does not come from your regular antivirus software, is the day to be highly suspicious!Check the statement carefully. It is most likely on a Web page and run on your browser. Then it is a fake warning.

Check links

Before you click on a link that you are not one hundred percent sure of is legitimate,look at the link. Where is it located? If the message you received about Facebook and the link does not go to www.facebook.com, but rather some other address - it can be an IP address ( 217.23.12.9 - an example taken from the air) or a domain that is trying to look like facebook.com, perhaps facebook.doman.com .

Systems and Software

No software can protect your computer against things that the user sets to with. But you can stop a lot by having a row ettigt security package installed. A commercial security package contains an antivirus as firewall , antispyware and often special tools to stop phishing. I recommend Symantec Norton, but that does not mean that the other alternatives are worse.

You can also choose to get a free antivirus and free firewall. Complement these with installing the excellent anti-spyware program SpyBot. It's free and gives you real time protection against spyware .

Finally, I suggest that you purchase the McAfee SiteAdvisor, a free add-on for your browser to warn you when you are going to dangerous websites. And do not forget to use the Automatic Updates (see Control Panel in Windows) to keep your Windows up to date with the latest security patches.

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