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Common Threats to Your PC
Topic Started: Apr 27 2008, 10:42 AM (121 Views)
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http://us.trendmicro.com/us/threats/home-u...eats/index.html

Common Threats to Your PC

“Spam describes any unsolicited communication—sent either via email or instant message (IM)—intended for commercial gain. The term spam encompasses a broad array of activities, many of which—such as the distribution of phishing emails. Recently, image spam—spam that displays its message in an image rather than in body text—has emerged in an effort to evade detection. Spammers also randomize these images using different sizes, backgrounds, and borders to prevent being blocked by spam signatures.

» Learn more about spam - http://us.trendmicro.com/us/threats/home-u...spam/index.html

Spyware and adware are closely related threats. Spyware is any piece of software, installed or employed without your knowledge, that watches, logs, and reports on
your electronic movements. Commercial spyware sells the information it collects to marketing entities; criminal spyware uses it to steal your identity—one of the most powerful threats facing consumers today.

» Learn more about spyware and adware - http://us.trendmicro.com/us/threats/home-u...ware/index.html

Phishing is any attempt-via phone, email, instant messaging (IM), or fax-to procure your personally identifiable information with the intent of stealing your identity (and, ultimately, your money). Most of these attempts are in the guise of a legitimate purpose; in other words, they appear to be valid, yet are indeed a criminal enterprise.

» Learn more about phishing - http://us.trendmicro.com/us/threats/home-u...hing/index.html

Crimeware is an overall term that describes software used for financial theft. Crimeware can spread via almost any threat vector - including viruses/Trojan horse programs/worms, spyware/adware, and others - and comprises bots, botnets, and ransomware.

» Learn more about crimeware - http://us.trendmicro.com/us/threats/home-u...ware/index.html

Malware is generally described as a software program that is surreptitiously and discreetly placed on a user’s computer that performs unexpected or unauthorized, but always malicious, actions. It is a common term used to refer to viruses, Trojan horse programs, and worms.”

» Learn more about viruses and other malware - http://us.trendmicro.com/us/threats/home-u...uses/index.html
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Thought you might like to see this.----------kenneth

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Subject: Excellent Advice from Snopes.com

Although I do love to receive emails I get from friends, anything that I must put my name to I avoid .



This is important advice, so be sure that you read it.



Advice from Snopes.com

1) Any time you see an E-Mail that says forward this on to '10' of your friends, sign this petition, or you'll get bad luck, good luck, or whatever, it almost always has an E-Mail tracker program attached that tracks the cookies and E-Mails of those folks you forward to. The host sender is getting a copy each time it gets forwarded and then is able to get lists of 'active' E-Mails to use in SPAM E-Mails, or sell to other Spammers.


2) Almost all E-Mails that ask you to add your name and forward on to others are similar to that mass letter years ago that asked people to send business cards to the little kid in Florida who wanted to break the Guinness Book of Records for the most cards. All it was, and all any of this type of E-Mail is, is a way to get names and 'cookie ' tracking information for telemarketers and Spammers - - to validate active E-Mail accounts for their own profitable purposes.

You can do your friends and family members a GREAT favour by sending this information to them; you will be providing a service to your friends, and will be rewarded by not getting thousands of spam E-Mails in the future!

If you have been sending out (FORWARDING) the above kinds of E-Mail, now you know why you get so much SPAM!

Do yourself a favour and STOP adding your name(s) to those types of listings regardless how inviting they might sound!

You may think you are supporting a GREAT cause, but you are NOT in the long run. Instead, you will be getting tons of junk mail later! Plus, we are helping the Spammers get rich! Let's don't make it easy for them!

Also: E-Mail petitions are NOT acceptable to Parliament or any other organisation. To be acceptable, petitions must have a signed signature and full address of the person signing the petition.

Read the full story here: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/internet.asp













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kenneth
Oct 17 2008, 05:04 AM

Thought you might like to see this.----------kenneth

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Subject: Excellent Advice from Snopes.com

Although I do love to receive emails I get from friends, anything that I must put my name to I avoid .



This is important advice, so be sure that you read it.



Advice from Snopes.com

1) Any time you see an E-Mail that says forward this on to '10' of your friends, sign this petition, or you'll get bad luck, good luck, or whatever, it almost always has an E-Mail tracker program attached that tracks the cookies and E-Mails of those folks you forward to. The host sender is getting a copy each time it gets forwarded and then is able to get lists of 'active' E-Mails to use in SPAM E-Mails, or sell to other Spammers.


2) Almost all E-Mails that ask you to add your name and forward on to others are similar to that mass letter years ago that asked people to send business cards to the little kid in Florida who wanted to break the Guinness Book of Records for the most cards. All it was, and all any of this type of E-Mail is, is a way to get names and 'cookie ' tracking information for telemarketers and Spammers - - to validate active E-Mail accounts for their own profitable purposes.

You can do your friends and family members a GREAT favour by sending this information to them; you will be providing a service to your friends, and will be rewarded by not getting thousands of spam E-Mails in the future!

If you have been sending out (FORWARDING) the above kinds of E-Mail, now you know why you get so much SPAM!

Do yourself a favour and STOP adding your name(s) to those types of listings regardless how inviting they might sound!

You may think you are supporting a GREAT cause, but you are NOT in the long run. Instead, you will be getting tons of junk mail later! Plus, we are helping the Spammers get rich! Let's don't make it easy for them!

Also: E-Mail petitions are NOT acceptable to Parliament or any other organisation. To be acceptable, petitions must have a signed signature and full address of the person signing the petition.

Read the full story here: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/internet.asp













U are absolutely correct Kenneth. When I receive those kinds of emails, I promptly delete them and I have told all my contacts to please remove me off their list.
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Trotsky
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I got a couple people miffed when I told them to stop sending m e-cards for holidays. Afterall, did they think that companies designed beautiful cards to send free to strangers with no profit motive in mind?
Of course, they collected the names of all recipients and bundled them for sale to spammers.
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Delphi51
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Curious, Snopes also says this:
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First and foremost, e-mail tracking programs do not exist.
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/nothing/billgate.asp


The only way I can think of would be persuading people to run a program attached to the email message. Always a bad idea unless you trust the sender.
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