Protect yourself from online threats and spam
The internet and world wide web is an innovative technologies which is getting more advance every day making our life more easier . almost half of our daily life activities are dependent on this internet such as online shopping, Social Networking, Online presentation, games, movies, emails and blah blah… but, what if you suddenly loss your these dependent’s access? What if you loss your most important business data? What if you don’t know that you are telling your secrets with an unknown person who pretend to be a known person online(fake profiles)? . Do you know,
FAKE PROFILES
Try to avoid fake profiles at social networking sites, because you may not knowing that you are sharing your information with a wrong person who isn’t person as it represented on his/her profile. Sometime its not so easy to detect any fake profiles, but looking at the profiles’ activities sometimes it make us sense that the profile is fake or real. Check the friend list if he/she have maximum friends of opposite sex. Check if/she has randomly added friends and no response on his/her wall posts by others. Check the photo albums if there is only one photo, then its damn sure that the profile is fake or just for fun.
Some website may ask you enter your name and email id to receive the package in your email id, these are spam, they need your email id for internet marketing to send you junky offers, you can see such emails at your spam folder.
SURVEYS:
You may have seen websites who ask to do a survey to win an iPhone, iPod or any latest popular gadget , these are pure spam, they would record your personal details such as email id, phone numbers, address , age , sex etc, for internet marketing and which would use for promotions of online products, this is one of the top reason of spam emails which we receive every day.
SPAM EMAILS:
If you receive emails with titled like “YOU HAVE WON $100,000,000 IN US LOTTERY AGENCY” or emails which says that “her parents has died in war and now she is staying at a refugee camp , her parents has left a huge sum of money and she need a foreign partner to recover it”, etc, beware of such messages, this is just too fool you as they would ask you for your bank details and latter you would be in trouble.
PHISHING WEBSITES:
Beware of phishing sites, as it is one of the easiest method that a hacker can attempt to gather your login data such as email id, unique log in id, and passwords.Once they collect your login details then your account would have complete control on their hand. Phishing sites completely looks like an original website, but they are cloned from an original website. You can not detect such kind of sites by its display, as it looks similar.
to check wheather the site is original or cloned just look at the URL, in address bar at the top of the browser. An original website’s login page would be like www.facebook.com/login.php?
but a cloned login page would have a URL like www.facebook43.login743.00webhost.com . Some hackers try to encrypt the original url by shortening it such as Bit.ly , don’t worry just goto http://www.getlinkinfo.com/and enter the shortened url to get the full address.
SUCURE YOURSELF
Always use a good antivirus and a firewall , I recommend Comodo. Always scan the attachments downloaded from emails.
FAKE PROFILES
Try to avoid fake profiles at social networking sites, because you may not knowing that you are sharing your information with a wrong person who isn’t person as it represented on his/her profile. Sometime its not so easy to detect any fake profiles, but looking at the profiles’ activities sometimes it make us sense that the profile is fake or real. Check the friend list if he/she have maximum friends of opposite sex. Check if/she has randomly added friends and no response on his/her wall posts by others. Check the photo albums if there is only one photo, then its damn sure that the profile is fake or just for fun.
Some website may ask you enter your name and email id to receive the package in your email id, these are spam, they need your email id for internet marketing to send you junky offers, you can see such emails at your spam folder.
SURVEYS:
You may have seen websites who ask to do a survey to win an iPhone, iPod or any latest popular gadget , these are pure spam, they would record your personal details such as email id, phone numbers, address , age , sex etc, for internet marketing and which would use for promotions of online products, this is one of the top reason of spam emails which we receive every day.
SPAM EMAILS:
If you receive emails with titled like “YOU HAVE WON $100,000,000 IN US LOTTERY AGENCY” or emails which says that “her parents has died in war and now she is staying at a refugee camp , her parents has left a huge sum of money and she need a foreign partner to recover it”, etc, beware of such messages, this is just too fool you as they would ask you for your bank details and latter you would be in trouble.
PHISHING WEBSITES:
Beware of phishing sites, as it is one of the easiest method that a hacker can attempt to gather your login data such as email id, unique log in id, and passwords.Once they collect your login details then your account would have complete control on their hand. Phishing sites completely looks like an original website, but they are cloned from an original website. You can not detect such kind of sites by its display, as it looks similar.
to check wheather the site is original or cloned just look at the URL, in address bar at the top of the browser. An original website’s login page would be like www.facebook.com/login.php?
but a cloned login page would have a URL like www.facebook43.login743.00webhost.com . Some hackers try to encrypt the original url by shortening it such as Bit.ly , don’t worry just goto http://www.getlinkinfo.com/and enter the shortened url to get the full address.
SUCURE YOURSELF
Always use a good antivirus and a firewall , I recommend Comodo. Always scan the attachments downloaded from emails.
