Tech Tip 129 - Going Phishing and Other Adventures in Internet Piracy

Posted by on 07/01 at 01:40 PM
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Surely you’ve encountered the “Dear Valued Customer”, “Verify Your Account” or “If you don’t respond within 48 hours, your account will be closed” emails flying across the screen, threatening corrective action unless you take the time to respond.  Worse yet, what about those pesky pop-up windows that sporadically appear when you visit your bank’s website, urging you to verify account details.

    Posted by njaneardude  on  07/01  at  08:39 PM

  1. I did all the right things, up to date AV and configured properly, Firefox/IE7, all patches, firewall and my wife calls me and tells me that we had an unauthorized attempt to transfer money from our bank account. 

    Yeah, when the kid downloads and install Limewire, game over.

    2. Posted by S-  on  07/02  at  12:36 PM

  2. The Ultimate Windows Security Update - Mac OSX 10.4.9

    3. Posted by Gerald Lukas  on  07/23  at  01:30 PM

  3. All your tech-tips contain a wealth of information. I read all, some more than others.
    I like to notebook most of them.  I wish a more printer friendly version could be produced.

    Please keep up the excellant work.

    4. Posted by Independent house  on  12/10  at  04:41 AM

  4. Really worthy tips.
    Thanks a lot.

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