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What Is Phishing - You Need To KNow

Phishing

In its most basic form, “phishing” takes the form of spam email messages asking you to divulge your bank account details. Recently, these attacks have become incredibly sophisticated, making it harder and harder to differentiate a phishing email from a legitimate one. Recent scams have contained standard company logos, convincing text and a link to a website that appears to belong to a bank.

The number and sophistication of phishing scams sent out to consumers is continuing to increase dramatically. While online banking and e-commerce is very safe, as a general rule you should be careful about giving out your personal financial information over the Internet.

The Anti-Phishing Working Group has compiled a list of recommendations below that you can use to avoid becoming a victim of these scams.


• Be suspicious of any email with urgent requests for personal financial information unless the email is digitally signed, you can't be sure it wasn't forged or 'spoofed' phishers typically include upsetting or exciting (but false) statements in their emails to get people to react immediately, they typically ask for information such as usernames, passwords, credit card numbers, social security numbers, etc. phisher emails are typically NOT personalized, while valid messages from your bank or e-commerce company generally are.

• Don't use the links in an email to get to any web page, instead if you suspect the message might not be authentic call the company on the telephone, or log onto the website directly by typing in the web address in your browser. It is possible to format links in email messages such that the apparent URL and the actual URL are very different.

• Avoid filling out forms in email messages that ask for personal financial information, you should only communicate information such as credit card numbers or account information via a secure website or the telephone.

• Always ensure that you're using a secure website when submitting credit card or other sensitive information via your Web browser. To make sure you're on a secure Web server, check the beginning of the Web address in your browsers address bar - it should be

"https://" rather than just "http://"

• Consider installing a browser tool bar to help protect you from known fraud websites. EarthLink ScamBlocker is part of a free browser toolbar that alerts you before you visit a page that's on Earthlink's list of known fraudulent phisher web sites. This utility is free and can be downloaded at Earthlink Toolbar.

• Regularly log into your online accounts don't leave it for as long as a month before you check each account.

• Regularly check your bank, credit and debit card statements to ensure that all transactions are legitimate if anything is suspicious, contact your bank and all card issuers.

• Ensure that the browser on your home computer is up to date and security patches applied.

What to do if you have given your details to a scammer

If you suspect that you have given your details via a phishing scam the most important thing you must do is contact your bank or credit card company immediately. If you have given out other personal identification information the recipient may attempt to use them in an identity theft.

This occurs when someone uses your personal information such as your name, address, National Insurance number, credit card number or other identifying information, without your permission to commit fraud or other crimes. If you have given out this kind of information to a phisher, you should do the following:

Report the theft to the major credit reporting agencies, Experian and Equifax, and do the following:

• Request that they place a fraud alert and a victim’s statement in your file.
• Request a copy of your credit report to check whether any accounts were opened without your consent.
• Request that the agencies remove inquiries and/or fraudulent accounts stemming from the theft.
Useful links

http://www.antiphishing.org/

http://www.cluster.lse.ac.uk/virus/

http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/spoof.asp

http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/

http://www.uk.experian.com/

http://www.equifax.co.uk/

Anti Virus Software - Helpful Information

What is Anti-virus software

Anti-virus software is a program that either comes installed on your computer or that you purchase and install yourself. It helps protect your computer against most viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and other unwanted programs that could make your computer or server unavailable and/or destroy your computer data. Viruses, worms, and malicious programs often do such things as delete files, access personal data, and or use your computer to attack other computers.

What are Computer Viruses?

A virus is a program or code that replicates itself or copies itself to other programs, computer boot sector or documents. Viruses can be transmitted to your computer as attachments in an e-mail or in a downloaded file, or be present on removable media such as floppy diskettes or CD's. Viruses are usually downloaded by email, files sharing programs, diskettes or CD's you've received without knowing that it contains a virus.

Viruses can infect as soon as their code is executed; other viruses lie dormant until circumstances cause their code to be executed by the computer. Most viruses can be quite harmful, erasing data or causing your hard disk to require reformatting. A virus that replicates itself by re-sending itself as an e-mail attachment or as part of a network message is known as a worm. If your computer gets a virus, which starts spreading to other computers through email or over the network, it may be necessary to shut down your network connection until the virus has been removed from the infected computer resulting in a loss of productivity.

What is Trojan Horse Virus?

A Trojan Horse Virus is a program in which malicious or harmful code is contained inside apparently harmless programming or data in such a way that it can get control and do its chosen form of damage, such as corrupting the file allocation table on your hard disk. A Trojan horse may be widely redistributed as part of a computer virus to other networked computers.

What is Worm Virus?

A worm is a self-replicating virus that does not alter files but resides in active memory and duplicates itself. Worms use parts of an operating system that are automatic and usually invisible to the user. It is common for worms to be noticed only when their uncontrolled replication consumes system resources, slowing or halting other tasks.

Generally, there are three main classes of viruses:

File infectors

Some file infector viruses attach themselves to program files, usually selected .COM or .EXE files. Some can infect any program for which execution is requested, including .SYS, .OVL, .PRG, and .MNU files. When the program is loaded, the virus is loaded as well. Other file infector viruses arrive as wholly-contained programs or scripts sent as an attachment to an e-mail note.

System or boot-record infectors

These viruses infect executable code found in certain system areas on a disk. They attach to the DOS boot sector on diskettes or the Master Boot Record on hard disks. A typical scenario (familiar to the author) is to receive a diskette from an innocent source that contains a boot disk virus. When your operating system is running, files on the diskette can be read without triggering the boot disk virus. However, if you leave the diskette in the drive, and then turn the computer off or reload the operating system, the computer will look first in your A drive, find the diskette with its boot disk virus, load it, and make it temporarily impossible to use your hard disk. (Allow several days for recovery.) This is why you should make sure you have a bootable floppy.

Macro viruses

These are among the most common viruses, and they tend to do the least damage. Macro viruses infect your Microsoft Word application and typically insert unwanted words or phrases.

How do you get infected?

You may be infected if you:

1. Insert a floppy disk or CD (or Zip disk or any other removable.) in your computer.

2. Download software.

3. Install software.

4. Receive email.

5. Browse Web sites.

6. Share files or access other another computer.

7. Use any type of network you run the risk of infecting your computers with a virus.

8. Anyone using your pc who has access to the Internet. Computer users can inadvertently download and execute viruses through dowloading, files sharing programs or through personal or business e-mails.

Good Practices

Prevent viruses from infecting your system; install and regularly update your anti-virus software. Most anti-virus software can be set up to automatically scan all processes of your computer and the activity on it. This includes, but is not limited to, the scanning of email (both incoming and outgoing), Web site temp files, downloaded files, removable media such as floppies, CDs, Zip disks, etc., and of course your hard drive.

New viruses are created almost daily, so it is imperative that your anti-virus software be updated regularly to counteract all new viruses. It is recommended to update every week, or more. This is especially true for users of Windows, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Outlook Express, the Web, and email.

It is good practice to set up your Anti-virus software to automatically scan you hard disk and network share, nightly, or at minimum twice a week.
It is especially important to run a scan before backing up your hard disks. You certainly would not want to backup a virus!

Are you protected with an online Anti-virus scan?

Not at All!

An online virus scanner is a tool to demonstrate why you need anti-virus software installed on your system. Because these free scanners do not run continuously on your system, they can only find the infection after the damage has been done.

Free Anti Virus Software Links

AVG Free Edition is still available. Grisoft have been bought out by Intel and a bunch of partners and they are, naturally, pushing the paid-for version. The free version is available at http://free.grisoft.com/doc/5390/lng/us/tpl/v5#avg-anti-virus-freeAvast 4 home Edition is available from http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.htmlAntiVir Personal Edition is available from http://www.free-av.com/My advice would be to have a look at the three sites named above and check out their support forums.

As with most software it comes down to personal preferences – I use and have been using AVG for 3 years, without any major problems. But the choice is Yours!

Why You Need To Protect Your PC

If its not one thing, its another. That is one of those ridiculous phrases that pretty much goes without saying. Like "wherever you go, there you are." But, in this case it seems appropriate.

Allow me to elaborate. Computers on the Internet are almost constantly bombarded with viruses and other malware- so users employ antivirus software to protect themselves. Email inboxes are constantly flooded with pathetically useless spam- so users employ anti-spam programs and techniques to protect themselves. As soon as you think you have things under control you find out your system has a myriad of spyware and adware programs silently running in the background monitoring and reporting on your computer activity. Hence, "if its not one thing, its another."

The more benign spyware and adware simply monitors and tracks your the sites you visit on the web so that companies can determine the web-surfing habits of their users and try to pinpoint their marketing efforts.

However, many forms of spyware go beyond simple tracking and actually monitor keystrokes and capture passwords and other functions which cross the line and pose a definite security risk.
How can YOU protect yourself from these insidious little programs? Ironically, many users unwittingly agree to install these programs. In fact, removing some spyware and adware might render some freeware or shareware programs useless. Below are 5 easy steps you can follow to try to avoid and, if not avoid, at least detect and remove these programs from your computer system:-

1. Be Careful Where You Download: Unscrupulous programs often come from unscrupulous sites. If you are looking for a freeware or shareware program for a specific purpose try searching reputable sites like tucows.com or download.com.
   


2. Read the EULA: What is an EULA you ask? End User License Agreement. It's all of the technical and legal gibberish in that box above the radio buttons that say "No, I do not accept" or "Yes, I have read and accept these terms". Most people consider this a nuisance and click on "yes" without having read a word. The EULA is a legal agreement you are making with the software vendor. Without reading it you may be unwittingly agreeing to install spyware or a variety of other questionable actions that may not be worth it to you. Sometimes the better answer is "No, I do not accept."
   


3. Read Before You Click: Sometimes when you visit a web site a text box might pop up. Like the EULA, many users simply consider these a nuisance and will just click away to make the box disappear. Users will click "yes" or "ok" without stopping to see that the box said "would you like to install our spyware program?" Ok, admittedly they don't generally come out and say it that directly, but that is all the more reason you should stop to read those messages before you click "ok".
   


4. Protect Your System: Antivirus software is somewhat misnamed these days. Viruses are but a small part of the malicious code these programs protect you from. Antivirus has expanded to include worms, trojans, vulnerability exploits, jokes and hoaxes and even spyware and adware. If your antivirus product doesn't detect and block spyware you can try a product like AdAware Pro which will protect your system from spyware or adware in real time.
   


5. Scan Your System: Even with antivirus software, firewalls and other protective measures some spyware or adware may eventually make it through to your system. While a product like AdAware Pro mentioned in step #4 will monitor your system in real time to protect it, AdAware Pro costs money. The makers of AdAware Pro, Lavasoft, also have a version available for free for personal use. AdAware will not monitor in real time, but you can manually scan your system periodically to detect and remove any spyware. Another excellent choice is Spybot Search & Destroy which is also available for free.
   

If you follow these five steps you can keep your system protected from spyware proactively and detect and remove any that does manage to get into your system.