Phishing
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.
“Anti-Phishing.info How to detect, avoid and stop phishing attacks!.” 9 Dec 2008 <http://www.anti-phishing.info/>.
“Avoid Getting ‘Hooked’ By Phishers.” 9 Dec 2008 <http://www.fraud.org/tips/internet/phishing.htm>.
“Phishing – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.” 5 Dec 2008 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing>.
“What is phishing? – A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer Dictionary.” 9 Dec 2008 <http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/p/phishing.html>.
Worm
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
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
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.
“Anti Virus Special Issue: Stop Computer Viruses In Their Tracks.” 3 Dec 2008 <http://www.scambusters.org/anti-virus.html>.
“Computer virus – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.” 2 Dec 2008 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_virus>.
“What Are Computer Viruses And How Do You Protect Against Them.” 3 Dec 2008 <http://www.articlesbase.com/computers-articles/what-are-computer-viruses-and-how-do-you-protect-against-them-273320.html>.
“Wrinklies – You Can Stop Computer Viruses.” 3 Dec 2008 <http://www.wrinklies.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=92&Itemid=39>.
Google Advanced Search Tadhg – Katelyn
Net 1:
How to search for something BADLY:
All these words: Atlantis
number of hits: 39,300,000
How to search for something EFFECTIVLY:
all these words:
Atlantis continent
any of these unwanted words:
shuttle film movie
Number of hits: 71,600
This number of hits is much smaller than the number of hits we got with just searching Atlantis. This is because we made our search on the Continent of Atlantis, and we searched for it WITHOUT getting websites about shuttles, films or movies.
Another Example: Waterbury
all these words:
Waterbury
one or more of these words:
Vermont VT
any of these unwanted words:
Connecticut CT
Apparently there is a Waterbury in Connecticut as well as Vermont, but we wanted to search the one in Vermont, so we asked not to search for Connecticut
Net 2:All these words:
San Diego State University
Exact Wording or Phrase:
San Diego State University
More Searches:
Bill602P
Exact wording or phrasing:
We know he has weapons of mass destruction demonstrating genuine leadership
Net 3:
Trim down http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/education
/projects/webquests/shakespeare/
to: http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/education
/projects/webquests/
This gives you a page of links for webquests, whereas the first one is a webquest about just Shakespear.
If you type the URL http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/education
/projects/ in, you get a site on web-based projects
if you trim it down to http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/education
it goes to a page with all the information with links about education
if you go just to the site, you go to the homepahe of the richmond campus.
Net 4:
Find pages related to:
ssischool.org
number of hits: 28
Find pages related to:
kids.msfc.nasa.gov
number of hits: 27
This is helpful because it is helping you find a webpage related to one that you like, but you want more of the same things.
Reflection
ENGLISH
i learnd how to have a good interview with someone.i improved my skills.
W-CiV.
in world civilization we had to find a myth of how the world was created. i looked at several but the one of the Nares. “Midgar,” the center of the land.The story shows how they think the world was created. There was a side of fire and a side of ice, and in the center was a dry mountainish place and some of the flames continued to melt the ice and a man and a cow came from the ice first. as the ice melted more and more, more people came to the center. the first man became BIGER and BIGER. the peopl who came after thought he was getting to strong and harsh so they took over and killed him.
His two sisters wanted revenge on the gods who killed him so they created a tree of life and death. They reassured that no human would be as strong and powerful as the gods.
Even if you dont believe in anything its kind of fun to read.
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xoxo, im out
