Archive for July, 2008

Avoiding Home Business Scams in Your Job Search

Anyone searching for a job that they can do from their own home has gone through the following: You do a search on a legitimate site for something you are perfectly qualified for. The results? Four hundred obvious home business scams.

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How to Detect a Scam

Detecting an online scam is difficult as a novice marketer. Learning from people with bad experience can teach you what to look out for and avoid the pitfalls from fraud and scams.

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Spam - The Internet’s Biggest Virus

We all know that virus's cause our computers to crash, and unfortunately at times rendering them completely unusable. That's why we have virus shields and scanners that can take care of these mechanical viruses for the most part. Well there is a virus that has long been attacking the internet itself, and it is not mechanical-it is completely organic and it has a brain. This virus is called a spammer.

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Online Banking Jeopardized - A Newly Discovered DNS Vulnerability

Hijacking of your online banking accounts is a real possibility. This is due to an exploit of a loophole in DNS server security configuration called DNS cache poisoning.

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Essential Anti Spam Measures For PC and Laptop Users

Despite legislation prohibiting spam in most countries of the world, spam is still as prevalent today as it was prior to the legislated prohibitions. Computer users, particularly home and private users, need to know and implement five essential security measures to prevent the majority of spam from ever reaching their machine.

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No You Did Not Hit Pay Dirt - it is a Nigerian Wire Transfer Scam

If you have ever received an email from someone claiming to be the relative or surviving dignitary to someone important that needs your help, chances are you are the target of a Nigerian wire transfer scam. Generally the email contains some very "seemingly" classified and important information, and it is in regards to someone from another country looking for someone to accept extremely large sums of money in exchange for a decent return. This is not a new scam, yet it seems to be picking up steam in North America as of late.

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Nigerian Wire Transfer Scam Duping the Careless and Greedy

It is not uncommon for you to find someone that is looking for a get rich quick scheme, one that seems to be making a lot of noise lately is the Nigerian wire transfer scam. This is not a way to help you get rich; it is a way to strip you of your own funds. By allowing yourself to be sucked into a scam such as this, you are placing yourself in a position to loose everything you own and not even see it coming.

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Free Anti-virus Software For XP - Smart Or Penny Pinching Stupid?

Now before many of you burst into flames as I have not mentioned the free version of AVG anti-virus, there is a reason? Although AVG has always been at the top of my list, at the moment it is not the best free anti-virus software for xp.

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Why Data Encryption is Important

In today's world where much of our personal information and financial transactions are processed via the Internet, data encryption is an essential element to any effective computer security system. This activity is why encryption is important. One of the main reasons why encryption is important has to deal with the way that information is sent via the Internet.

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Poke the Spying Eye - Sanctions Against Spyware

Spyware is one of the biggest problems to ever infest he lives of Internet users in addition to viruses and trojans. And there have been many concerted efforts from many sectors to control and inhibit the effect of this phenomenon that violates user privacy and impairs the surfing experience of thousands of people worldwide.

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