Protect Yourself Against Malicious Internet Spyware and Trojans

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Protect Yourself Against Malicious Internet Spyware and Trojans

by: jack_norton Total views: 15 Word Count: 200

Even with the advent of the new powerful OS like Windows Vista and Apple Leopard, people must be very cautious when visiting malicious websites.

You could think that only surfing, without downloading or opening suspicious email attachments, would be a safe activity. You are wrong, very wrong.

Nowadays the internet criminals have invented all sort of things to try to steal your personal info (credit card details, address, identity) for their illegal activities.

One of them is the use of ActiveX or Javascript embedded in the page, in practice by just opening the page in your browser, if you're not very careful, you can automatically download, install and execute very dangerous programs called "trojans" that reside on your pc and start everytime you boot your computer, sending your information over the net to specific email address or computer connected to the network.
So beside using a good antivirus, is always good to follow this guideline: avoid completely visiting unknown or suspicious website, look at Google's advice in search results (they have added a text saying "this website can harm your computer") and add plugins to your browser to block the execution of ActiveX and Javascript elements in the webpages, unless you give them authorization.

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