Anonymity How to protect yourself online

[Otto]

I found an article online. Of course, the accordion, but suddenly someone will come in handy

This is not related to CARDING!!! Purely for the users in the network

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Tip # 1. Don't follow suspicious links.

If you received an email from your Bank offering to update your password, or from the Odnoklassniki website.<url>" received a notification about a new message, do not rush to open the suggested links.​

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Instead of odnoklassniki.ru it is quite possible to see odnoсlassniki.ru or even odnaklassniki.ru: the difference is only one letter, and many do not even notice it. If you follow this link, in the worst case, you can catch a serious virus, and at best – just lose your account on the site.​

Tip # 2. Trust email anti-spam filters.

As a rule, they filter almost all emails that trick you into visiting a particular hacker site. And even if you still received an email with a message about winning a million pounds, do not rush joyfully to the wall with shouts of "I'm rich!": such messages are received by hundreds of thousands of users around the world every day. The UK would have gone broke long ago, paying each winner a million.​

Tip # 3. Install a comprehensive security system.

"Clean" antivirus – yesterday. Today, the so-called "comprehensive protection systems" are relevant, including antivirus, firewall, anti-spam filter and a couple of modules for full protection of your computer. The most popular ones are Kaspersky Internet Security, ESET Smart Security, and Symantec Norton 360. And a dozen others.​

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Do not skimp on these systems: $50-70 for an annual license is not comparable to the loss of critical information that can happen due to insufficient protection of your PC. And don't forget to regularly update the signature databases: it's best to set the program to update automatically.​

Tip # 4. Use 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 spot 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 for both one and the second browser, so it is better not to use them at all.​

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And do not pay attention to the regular press reports that Firefox has the most vulnerabilities. Firstly, you are unlikely to check it, and secondly, even if it is (which is very doubtful), almost no one uses them-so quickly developers eliminate these "holes".​

Tip # 5. Don't believe offers to read other people's SMS messages or look at "shocking video of sex with RileyReid".

Periodically, the Runet (in particular, "In Contact") is shaken by waves of spam madness: now very popular sites that offer access to other people's SMS and call printouts, before them at the peak of fame were audionarkotiki, even earlier - "programs that allow you to enter other people's pages, even closed, under someone else's name." In General, the imagination of scammers is limitless. When the SMS wave subsides, something else will come.​

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All these fakes have one thing in common – you are offered something that violates someone's personal space, allegedly under a big secret. People are curious and trusting, and it is excessive trustfulness that sometimes leads to great troubles. At best, 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, at worst, an evil virus from such a site will settle on your computer.​

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Remember one simple thing: there are no freebies. No mobile operator will allow the ability to view printouts of calls to become available to anyone via the Internet, and the security services will not look through their fingers at how real audio tactics (and not the fake that the proposed audio files are actually) are widely distributed.​

Tip # 6: Buy An Apple Macintosh.

"Macs "are considered the most secure computers, but not because it is some kind of" super-secure " system (as its fans like to say). It's just that there are thousands of times fewer viruses written under the Mac because of its low prevalence compared to the PC, as well as because of a different architecture.​

Tip # 7. USE licensed software.

Do not laugh at this or twist your finger at your temple. If you have just downloaded a fresh hacker program, run it and deliberately ignore the antivirus warning, be prepared for the fact that you can put a Trojan on your computer. Moreover, the more popular the program, the higher the probability. On the other hand, antivirus programs sometimes falsely react to quite harmless hackers.​

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In General, it is better not to risk it.​

Tip # 8. Make purchases only in trusted online stores.

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If you like to shop online with a plastic card, the store should be completely secure. If this is a little-known store, it is 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 Netcraft Toolbar (for Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer). This small free add-on to your browser will show a potentially dangerous site and block access to a known Scam site (the database is constantly updated).​

Tip # 9. Install software updates regularly.

Hacking methods are constantly being improved, as well as security 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 all programs, not just browsers, although the latter should be done as quickly as possible.​

Tip # 10. Use caution when downloading files from the Internet.

"And the old woman is a hole" - no one guarantees that 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 from them, and antivirus SOFTWARE sites may well "miss" another tricky virus.​

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It is especially unsafe to download files from peer-to-peer networks, as well as bring them on a flash drive from nowhere. One piece of advice – be sure to scan all new files with your antivirus or comprehensive protection system, and if you suspect that such a system is not working, send the suspicious file to the developers at Kaspersky lab, Eset or Doctor Web, so that they will investigate it in full and give you a confident answer.​

 

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"Macs "are considered the most secure computers, but not because it is some kind of" super-secure " system (as its fans like to say). It's just that there are thousands of times fewer viruses written under the Mac because of its low prevalence compared to the PC, as well as because of a different architecture.

wow. now that was stupid and pointless.