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Get All That You Want
Sunday, July 26th, 2009Be careful using “ctrl+c” and “ctrl+v” using internet
Thursday, April 30th, 2009It is extremely easy to extract the text that is stored in the clipboard to steal your sensitive information.
The copied data that is stored on the clipboard, can be easily accessible over the net by a combination of JavaScript & ASP
To avoid this do as below::
1) Go to ‘Control Panel’. One way to access it is by typing control in Run
2) Go to internet option and select security tab
3) press custom level
4) In the security settings, select disable option under
“Allow paste operation via script” and click OK
THAT’S IT!! Now your sensitive information is safe from hackers.
Orkut Users…! Beware
Thursday, April 30th, 2009According to the Websense Security Labs, dangerous ‘Malicious Trojan Virus’ is rambling in orkut social networking. They have called for an attention from all orkut users regarding this virus and provided some safety measures to prevent it from creeping into your profile.
This virus may reach your profile as a scrap or mostly as a message providing links that connect to seeking love or porn stuff or quick money making schemes or any others such sought of messages that draw your attention to click on them.
The message sometimes contains several links that appear to lead to the official Orkut Web site. Clicking on a link actually leads to a malicious executable file, which is a Trojan Downloader named “imagem.exe” .
The malicious file opens the legitimate Orkut network login page, and in the background downloads a password stealing Trojan named “msn.exe” and its get copied to various system locations, using different names: “plugin.exe”,”kss.exe.” These copies are bound to the system’s start up.
So Beware and think twice before clicking on any links or scripts coming to you which you feel are not concerned to you or when you don’t know the identity of the sender.
Hope this Helps…
How Not To Get Hacked
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009Protect Urself !
Follow These Simple Guidelines n u are done
*** Under the security option tab of Mozilla Firefox there is an option Show Passwords make sure its protected by the master password.
1. U may avoid using Internet Explorer(old versions) and make the switch to Opera, it’s more secure, plain and simple.
2. Get Spybot Search and Destroy or Spyware Doctor and immediately update it.
3. Get Adaware SE and immediately update it.
(Use both as a 1-2 punch on infected client computers and between the two there’s not much they won’t kill)
4. Update your anti virus,
5. Boot into safe mode and run all three scans (once in a month)
6. While the scans are going check your registry (Click start –> Run and type regedit to get intot he registry) and look in HKEY_CurrentUser/software/microsoft/windows/currentversion/run & HKEY_Local_Machine/software/microsoft/windows/currentversion/run. Verify that all programs listed are legitimate and wanted.
7. If or when your antivirus scan comes across anything, search for that file name in your registry and delete it, at least quarantine it.
8. Use explorer to go to the windows/system32 folder and sort by date. If you haven’t already done so, make sure you can see the entire file names. click Tools –> Folder Options and unclick the box labeled “Hide extensions for known file types” and under Hidden files and folders click “Show hidden files and folders.” However, make sure you choose “Hide protected operating system files” so you don’t accidentally remove anything that would cripple your computer.. You are looking for recent files with names ending with .exe and .dll that look suspicious. Major culprits will have gibberish names such as alkjdlkjfa.exe.
9. Once you can get clean scans in safe mode, reboot in normal mode and scan all over again. If you can’t get a clean scan in regular mode then you have something more persistant that could take more research.
10. Make sure your firewall doesn’t have strange exceptions.
11. If you suspect anything that is going wrong with your computer is the action of a stalker, on a more secure system change all your major passwords, mostly bu using a virtual keyboard(to prevent keyloggers).
12. If your system has been specifically targeted and hacked you can never be 100% sure that your system is no longer compromised so start with 11, make backups of personal files on the infected system and format and re-install Windows.
Good luck!