Prevent Phishing Attacks
By Cynthia Kirkbey
Jan 29, 2009, 1:11pm
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Phishing is a sneaky email scam that masquerades a phoney site for an established one.. They use it as a bait and switch technique, you think you are clicking on a link to your bank or other membership company and instead you are directed to a duplicate website. The biggest danger in this, of course, is that they then prompt you to input your username and password on the phoney site, where they collect it.
There are programs that detect and alert you when you come across phishing sites. This can save your sensitive data. We've included a write up on such a program below.
Try a FREE scan of your computer and see if it finds anything that shouldn't be there.
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