Saturday, April 7, 2012

How not to get hacked ?

1.Third party apps
 Get away from third party facebook apps (strickly recomended)  for eg: facebook chatter , facebook bulk friend remover, facebook reader etc they steal your passwords and moreover they can acess all your likes favourties and when it comes to passwords you're totally pwned!

2. Sniffers
 Get rid of sniffers on your local area network sniffers might steal your data passwords and others confidential informations . learn how to get rid of sniffers from here http://makingawareof.blogspot.com/2012/03/getting-rid-of-sniffers.html

3. Cookie session hijackers
Get away from cookie stealing programs like firesheep they can access your Facebook and accounts on others site on a real time on a same Local area network you can use blacksheep to tackle this problem

4. Phising sites
 Get away from phising sites. they are the fake websites calming to be real which steals your id and password. take a look on how to get rid of phising sites on this site:
http://makingawareof.blogspot.com/search?q=phising

5. Viruses
 Check for viruses on your computer some viruses may be sending lots and lots of information about you without even making you aware of , always update the antivirus software and always use the best and the trusted antivirus tool.

6. Keyloggers
Check for key loggers on your computer. key loggers are the programs that secretly store your keystroke s , they secretly store every words you type in the keyboard. You can use antivirus for detecting the key loggers, also check wether key loggers are kept on exclusion list on antivirus or not.

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