Most people don’t think too much about getting hacked during their day-to-day web surfing — until it actually happens. Consequences can range from minor, but annoying, personal computer infections that randomly pop ads up on the screen every few minutes, to much more serious afflictions such as identity theft and financial losses.
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Top Five Email/Internet Scams to Look Out For
An email or Internet scam refers to any online activity that is geared towards cheating someone out of his or her money, data or any other valuables. Every day, millions of people are conned by persons posing as friends or in need of help: in most cases, the help involving finances. It seems cyber criminals […]
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Spam, And How To Avoid It
Spam — the canned meat that everybody loves to hate. It fed the troops through WWII. It’s shipped across the world to Third World Countries to feed the starving. And, in most cases, it’s only tolerated because it does just that—it staves off starvation.
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Tips for Increasing Productivity on Your computer
When it comes to your personal computer, there’s a good chance that you’re not being nearly as productive as you think you are. Sure, you might be spending hours on end at your computer, but that doesn’t mean that you’re actually working at your full potential.
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Making Security A Priority On Facebook
Facebook is vastly recognized as the largest and most powerful social media platform in the world. With a billion users worldwide, this social media giant presents a bundle of opportunities for its users. Whether it be the individual looking to stay in contact with their family and friends, the small organization looking to promote an […]
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5 Tips to Avoid Internet Scams
There is no shortage of Internet scams out there. How do we protect ourselves from being duped? This article will provide 5 tips to avoid being a victim of an Internet scam. 5 Tips to Avoid Internet Scams Have you ever received an email from a Persian prince offering you the opportunity to earn millions […]
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Beat Spam to Increase Productivity
Spam continues to be a company´s biggest threat toproductivity with no signs of slowing down. Take a few measures to reduce its impact on organizational performance. Recent studies have shown that spam is one of the biggest productivity killers that companies large or small must contend with. The speed spam hits newly created mailboxes is […]
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What is Keylogger Software?
Keyloggers are programs which record each keystroke on the computer they are installed on. This provides a complete log of text entered such as passwords, emails sent and websites visited.
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How malware attacks and spreads in your computer
It seems that there is no end of security attacks of computers these days, and worms, pishing attacks and malware attacks are becoming very common. Every system is threatened of malicious attacks because of different viruses and malwares. However, one can avoid any damage to a system by knowing how malware attacks a system and […]
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How to detect, prevent and report PayPal Phishing Scam?
Nowadays, fake emails are getting more and more complicated rendering them even more difficult to detect. Further, they come from such reliable and recognized sources, which leads the user to believe the emails and one such name is PayPal. If you are a PayPal account holder, then it is important for you to spot a […]
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How virus attacks your system through e-mail?
Internet and computers are now a part of our daily routine life. Rarely can you see people who do not use internet. Anything and everything has to be done online. Planning your travel, making bill payments, reading news are all done easily with the help of Internet and computers. With all these technological improvement, there […]
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What is Phishing? How you can stay away from it?
Phishing is a relatively new concept that has entered in the new age of internet. Phishing is the act of trying to retrieve information from a concerned computer user. Most people consider Phishing as a type of security threat that poses a huge risk to concerned computer users all over the world.
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How to make best use of the antivirus software?
Computer Viruses have ability to paralyze your computer and also cause immense time with corrupt programs and files. The possible loss caused by virus and other malicious software programs are
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