Top Tips - Triple Jeopardy Porn Harassment, Identity Theft and Huge Phone Bills
If somebody wants to see everywhere u go on your comp, they don't
need to break into your house to plant a bug - spyware can be planted
remotely, without u even knowing about it.
Adware is hassle, but it's not dangerous.
The clever stuff delivers pop-ups relevant to the type of sites u visit.
Or, it might just load your machine with porn ads, just as your mum walks in.
Spyware is more sinister.
It's a complete data capture program and will monitor sites u visit,
recording what u do on there. Really technical spyware can record
keystrokes, so bang goes your password, parent's credit card number
and friends' private details. Ever heard of Identity theft?
A Direct Dialler will get u panned by the person who pays the phone bill.
It basically replaces your modems usual dial-up with a premium rate number. When u access the premium rate number, porn sites and other programs will
invite themselves onto your comp and u'll spend the rest of the year
trying to prove you're not a porn fiend.
Avoid installing direct diallers by triple checking anything that asks if u'd like to install it.
Clicking the No button is sometimes not good enough for direct diallers - they are designed
to trick u into downloading them (who'd seriously click Yes to paying 10 times the connection fee?)
Click the Cross to close and then run either of these anti-spy programs.
