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Phishing

Phishing is the criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as user names, passwords and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication. Phishing is typically done by e-mail or instant messaging. It often peruses users to enter details at a fake website whose URL looks and feel almost identical to the legitimate one. Not all phishing attacks require a fake website. there are such things as phone phishing which would for example peruse you to dial your PIN number thinking it was the bank you were sending it to. To prevent phishing you would need to not give out you passwords or important information. Don’t give out importunate information over messages.

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“Phishing – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.” 5 Dec 2008 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing>.

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Worm

A worm is an application that replicates itself without user intervention and moves the copies from computer to computer. Worms are especially dangerous to networked PCs because they can quickly spread. Unlike the Virus the worm does not have to wait TO BE SENT, it sends itself. You can get a worm by opening attachments on emails, instant messaging, or opening files that you are not sure about. To prevent a worm don’t accept downloads that you don’t know of and don’t know were they came from or who they came from. if you DON’T HAVE to open an email attachment, for example you don’t think the person would send it to you or if you didn’t ask the sender to send it to you, DON’T OPEN IT. If you are sending an email with attachments tell the person before you do so they know it is safe to open.

“How to Avoid Computer Worms.” 5 Dec 2008 <http://www.spamlaws.com/avoid-worms.html>.

“How to prevent email worms and viruses.” 9 Dec 2008 <http://antivirus.about.com/od/securitytips/a/emailsafety.htm>.

“HowStuffWorks “How do viruses and worms spread in e-mail?”.” 9 Dec 2008 <http://computer.howstuffworks.com/question339.htm>.

“What Are Computer Worms?.” 9 Dec 2008 <http://www.pcsecurityalert.com/pcsecurityalert-articles/computer-worms.htm>.

Trojan horse

A trojan horse is a program that appears to be legitimate, but in fact does something bad. Quite often, that something bad involves gaining remote access to a user’s system. Unlike viruses, a Trojan does not infect other files, nor does it make copies of itself as worms do. A trojan horse can be released by an email attachment, or by any other attachments The trojan horse will not score your hard drive for personal details. Instead the key logging function often comes into play – capturing the user’s keystrokes as they type and sends the logs to the attackers providing them with: passwords, credit card numbers, and other things you commonly type that’s important. Once you have a trojan horse you should scan your computer with an anti-virus program to find it. You should disconnect from your internet so the trojan horse has no way of communication, and once once you find it kill it. To prevent a trojan horse don’t download anything from a site you don’t know 100%. be sure you know what you are downloading even if it’s from a friend.

“How to Get Rid of Trojan Virus – What You Really Need to Know About Trojan Removal.” 5 Dec 2008 <http://ezinearticles.com/?How-to-Get-Rid-of-Trojan-Virus—What-You-Really-Need-to-Know-About-Trojan-Removal&id=1686121>.

“How to prevent a Trojan horse infection | Sympatico / MSN Tech & Gadgets.” 5 Dec 2008 <http://technology.sympatico.msn.ca/How-To/Computing/ContentPosting?newsitemid=63e389d3-08fe-4b17-9693-b4f69fc19498&feedname=HOWTO_COMPUTING_EN&show=False&number=0&showbyline=False&subtitle=&detect=&abc=abc&date=False>.

“Trojan Horse Attacks.” 5 Dec 2008 <http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/security/trojan.html>.

“What’s a Trojan Horse virus?.” 3 Dec 2008 <http://antivirus.about.com/b/2006/05/31/whats-a-trojan-horse-virus.htm>.

Virus

A virus is a computer program that can copy itself and infect a computer with out permission or knowledge of that computer’s owner. Files that can be downloaded that have the extensions .pif, .exe, .com, .vbs, .bat, .bin, .dot, .reg, .js, .scr, .xlm and .dll. A computer gets a virus by somebody manually spreading the virus meaning someone has to ether go to a computer and plant it, or by sending it to the computer over the internet,it cannot spread itself. For example someone might send you a file and it could be a virus and you would not know, or someone could use your computer and they might have a virus on their flash drive, and say it was on a picture you wanted, so they put the picture on your computer and voila, now you have the virus too. Once you get a virus on your computer you can stop it by having a good anti-virus program, and just a little tip, the ones you download from the internet are not all that good. Also do not go to sites that people send you that you are not sure of. You can prevent the virus from infecting your computer and it is not that hard. you can: put an anti-virus software on your computer, try to pay attention to the extensions or all you downloads, make sure you know where everything you are downloading is coming from, and run your anti-virus regularly.

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