Hijack Ware

I thought that I would help out by actually saying how easy it is to avoid Pop-up's, Viruses, Hackers, Ad-ware, Spyware and the latest craze Phishing. Well lets start with your computer. First I suggest that you get a better Firewall then MS Firewall (the one that is already in your system). Change it to Zone Alarm, (google Zone Alarm and you should find it). Second thing to do is to, download AVG it will get rid of any Spyware and Viruses. Next thing to do is to get your browser sorted. I recommend Mozilla Firefox, I like this because you can ask it to delete cookies after use, Download this from the Firefox site, But also available from ...

In computer terms just mentioning the words: viruses, Trojans and worms, are enough to make anyone jump a mile. Most thoughts by people on this issue are based on preconceptions. This report aims to give you the facts about these digital nasties and what the future of these digital nasties are. Lets start with viruses. This is definitely the most less interesting of the 3 major forms of attack against your personal security. They come in all forms and can do a variety of tasks, they can be devastating but your virus detection software program is probably very good at dealing with them. Anti-virus software or AVS is a defence against such nasties and usually ...

I have just found this topic on the site and it made me think about a phonecall I received a couple of months ago. A certain company phoned the house to speak to Alex. He doesn't like taking calls like this, so I asked if I could help with what they were wanting. It was from a company. I still don't know how they got our number, but all I could assume was they got the details from when we registered to PC. The woman on the phone said the company was looking for individuals from all walks of life. They wanted to send me out a disk, which I insert into my disc drive and they would monitor what I done on the net. I don't like the idea of this, but I ...