McAfee VirusScan Plus 2008 retails for $39.99 for a one year license normally but you can get it for free for a limited time. It runs on computers with Windows 2000 or newer Microsoft operating systems including Windows Vista and protects your system from various threats such as spyware, viruses, trojans and phishing.
New Phishing Mail Tactics
I guess every user with an email address has already received at least one email from a bank, financial website or other website asking him to download a security patch to avoid account termination or a ban. Those mails are so common nowadays that they seem to lack the desired affect and that less and less users are falling for those phishing emails that point to the download of a Trojan of course and not a security update.
How to defeat Phishing
Kurt mentioned in Daniel’s PayPal phishing article how he dealt with phishing and that got me thinking about the easiest way to defeat phishing for certain accounts. The answer is virtual mail accounts. I always thought about virtual mail accounts as a way to stop spam and find out which website or service sells your email but it can also be used to defeat phishing.
- Author: Daniel Pataki
- Published: Jan 5th, 2008
- Comments: 8
Ingenious PayPal mimicing spam
About 2 days ago, I received a quite clever spam email in my Gmail account. It’s still pretty new, so I do take a look when I occasionally get spam to filter out any mistakes (none so far). I noticed a letter with the sender “PayPal”. I clicked on it and it says:
This email confirms [...]
Free Phishing Protection with Delphish
Many Internet users do not realize how dangerous Phishing can be. They receive a email which claims to be from their bank and they blindly trust everything that is written in that mail and will click on any links that are displayed in that mail to “update” their security software or passwords. They are usually redirected to sites that password fish their passwords and use them to make online transactions. I’m always astonished by the amount of users that want to do online banking for instance on the Internet but lack basic security knowledge.
Introduction to new phishing techniques
Many users are still unaware of the dangers that phishing could mean for their life’s. They might now that hackers try to lure unsuspecting users to fake websites hoping that their victims would try to supply login information, credit card details or social security numbers while trying to use the service. Those users already have difficulties identifying those first generation phishing websites that undoubtedly look and feel more professional with every passing day.
20 Minute Guide to Pc Security
20 minutes to increase the security of a computer, wow that must be a good guide. The guys at itsecurity have written a security guide that indeed covers the basics of PC security. I do know from first hand experience that many users do not follow simple PC security guidelines, e.g. they probably have a anti-virus solution but never update it.
