Avoid a Phishing Scam Online

 

The act of sending email that falsely claims to be from a legitimate organization. This is usually combined with a threat or request for information: for example, that an account will close, a balance is due, or information is missing from an account. The email will ask the recipient to supply confidential information, such as bank account details, PINs or passwords; these details are then used by the owners of the website to conduct fraud.

Phishing is when a scam artist sends a message to trick you into providing your personal information. The scam artists then use that information to steal your identity and your money.

There are ways to protect yourself against phishing scams online that are easy and should be done by everyone.

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How to Remove Doubleclick Adware

DoubleClick is a common tracking cookie placed onto your computer by various websites. Once it's there, the parent company can retrieve it and you may start receiving pop-up ads and emails based on the tracking information. To avoid this, you need to regularly remove DoubleClick tracking cookies. You can make the process a part of your regular spyware prevent routine with some easy steps.

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AUTORUN.INF VIRUS

Autorun.inf Virus

Removing AUTORUN.INF Virus

There are several viruses that uses the autorun.inf to spread itself such as the Bacalid (hides itself in ctfmon.exe) and the RavMon.EXE. These viruses set its file attributes to System+Hidden+Read-Only attributes so some anti-viruses will have a hard time detecting or finding them. These viruses save itself in the root directory of every available drives of the current infected computer and runs itself every time you Double-Click the drive. In USB Sticks and CDs that are infected by the virus runs automatically especially if drive autorun is enabled for the current drives (which is usually by default, autorun for drives are enabled).

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Protect Your Computer Against the Conficker Worm

From the House of Commons in the United Kingdom to servers of corporations in the United States to the average user across the globe, the Conficker Worm is attacking anything and everything in it's path, wreaking havoc and killing Internet connections, slowing corporate functions and infiltrating the most sensitive of data. 

Conficker has since spread rapidly into what is now believed to be the largest computer worm infection since the 2003 SQL Slammer, with more than seven million government, business and home computers in over 200 countries now under its control. The worm has been unusually difficult to counter because of its combined use of many advanced malware techniques.

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