10 Online Security Tips

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If you spend a lot of time on the Web, then full protection is absolutely necessary. Rformer has ten tips on how to make web surfing safe. Tip number 1. Do not follow suspicious links. If you received a letter from your bank with an offer to update your password, or a notification about a new message was received from Odnoklassniki.ru, do not rush to open the proposed links. Instead of odnoklassniki.ru you can see odnoсlassniki.ru or even odnaklassniki.ru: the difference is only in one letter, and many do not even notice it. If you follow this link, then in the worst case you can pick up a serious virus, and in the best - just lose your account on the site. Tip number 2. Trust email spam filters. As a rule, they filter almost all letters that trick you into one or another hacker site. And even if you did receive a letter stating that you won a million pounds sterling, don’t rush joyfully at the wall shouting “I am rich!”: Hundreds of thousands of users around the world receive such messages every day. Great Britain would have gone broke long ago, paying each winner a million. Source: Flickr.com/[SPAM] Tip # 3. Install a comprehensive protection system. "Clean" antivirus - yesterday. Today, the so-called "comprehensive protection systems" are relevant, including antivirus, firewall, antispam filter and a couple of modules to fully protect your computer. The most popular are Kaspersky Internet Security, ESET Smart Security, Symantec Norton 360. And a dozen others. Do not save on these systems: $ 50-70 for a one-year license cannot be compared with the loss of the most important information that can happen due to insufficient protection of your PC. And do not forget to regularly update signature databases: it is best to configure the program to automatically update. Tip number 4. Use the browsers Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Apple Safari. The lion's share of worms and malicious scripts are written under Internet Explorer and Opera. The first one still holds the top line in the popularity rating with its 67% of users, but only because it is built into Windows. Opera is very popular in Russia because of its ghostly convenience and a really large number of settings. The security level is very lame in both the one and the second browser, so it is better not to use them at all. And do not pay attention to reports regularly appearing in the press that Firefox has the most vulnerabilities. Firstly, you are unlikely to check this, and secondly, even if so (which is very doubtful), almost no one uses them - so quickly the developers eliminate these "holes". Tip number 5. Do not believe the offers to read someone else's SMS or look at the "shocking video of sex with Semenovich." Periodically, the Runet (in particular, “VKontakte”) is shocked by waves of spamming madness: now sites that offer access to other people's SMS and printouts of calls are very popular, before them at the peak of fame were audio drugs, even earlier - “programs that allow access to other people's pages, even closed, under a false name. " In general, the fantasy of scammers is limitless. When the wave of SMS subsides, something else will come. All these fakes have one thing in common - you are offered something that violates someone’s personal space, supposedly in great secret. People are curious and gullible, and it is excessive gullibility that sometimes leads to big troubles. In the best case, if you want to read someone else’s SMS, you can lose 300-600 rubles on your phone account - if you need to send a message to a short number for payment, in the worst case - a malicious virus from such a site will settle on your computer. Remember one simple thing: there is no freebie. Not a single mobile operator will allow the ability to view call prints to become accessible to anyone on the Internet, and the special services will not look blindly at how real audio drugs (and not the linden which the proposed audio files are actually) are widely used . Source: Flickr.com/Arthur Smokes Tip # 6. Buy an Apple Macintosh. "Macs" are considered the most secure computers, but not at all because it is some kind of "super-secure" system (as its fans like to say). It's just that under the Mac, thousands of times less viruses are written because of its low prevalence compared to PCs, and also because of a different architecture. Tip number 7. Use licensed software. Do not laugh at this or twist your finger at the temple. If you just downloaded a fresh cracker of the program, run it and deliberately ignore the antivirus warning, be prepared for the fact that you can put the trojan on your computer. Moreover, the more popular the program, the higher this probability. On the other hand, antiviruses sometimes falsely respond to completely harmless crackers. In general, it’s better not to risk it. Tip number 8. Shop only at trusted online stores. If you like to shop online with a plastic card, the store should be completely safe. If this is a little-known store, it would be best to check it before leaving any financial information there. The easiest way is to write the name or URL of the site in search engines and see what other people write about this store. The second way is to install the Netcraft Toolbar (for Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer). This small free add-on to your browser will reveal a potentially dangerous site and block access to the well-known scam site (the database is constantly updated). Tip number 9. Install software updates regularly. Hacking methods are constantly being improved, as well as protection methods. Microsoft representatives regularly report that their new Internet Explorer is even safer than the previous one, and vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox are eliminated literally within a few days after they are discovered. Timely installation of updates applies to any programs, not just browsers, although for the latter you need to do this as quickly as possible. Tip number 10. Use caution when downloading files on the Internet. “And there can be a bitch to an old woman” - no one guarantees that by downloading the program even on a well-known and respected site, you will not pick up another trojan. New viruses come out faster than protection against them, and the anti-virus software of the sites may well “miss” another cunning virus. It is especially unsafe to download files from peer-to-peer networks, as well as bring them to a USB flash drive, no one knows where. There is only one advice - be sure to scan all new files with your antivirus or integrated protection system, and if you suspect that such a system can’t cope, send the suspicious file to the developers at Kaspersky Lab, Eset or Doctor Web so that it can be examined there using the full program gave you a sure answer.

 

[Матушкин Андрей Николаевич]

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About rule number 5 just a bomb) Are there still those who believe in all this?)