Phishing is an illegal activity where sensitive information, such as usernames and passwords, are acquired. Facebook and other social networking sites are frequently targeted. Phishing attacks can steal private information, such as login credentials or credit card numbers.
The latest generation web browsers, such as Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2.0 come with built in phishing protection but this is not enough. Various solutions were offered, including running anti-spyware software, disabling plugins, and so forth but It would not prevent all. If the problem was caused by ISP’s DNS server, you can use OpenDNS to help prevent things like this.…
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Protect yourself from phishing attacks with OpenDNS
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Internet Download Manager 5.17 Build 5
Internet Download Manager is a tool for increasing download speeds by up to 5 times and for resuming scheduling and organizing downloads The program will resume unfinished downloads due to network problems or unexpected power outages The program features a full fledged site grabber that downloads files that are specified with filters for example all pictures from a Web site different parts of web sites or complete web sites for offline browsing The program supports HTTP HTTPS FTP and MMS protocols and has an adaptive download accelerator for MP3 audio and MPEG video files Internet Download Manager can be used…
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Microsoft Security Bulletin MS09-014 – Critical
This security update resolves four privately reported vulnerabilities and two publicly disclosed vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer The vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted Web page using Internet Explorer or if a user connects to an attacker 39 s server by way of the HTTP protocol Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights This security update is rated Critical for Internet Explorer 5 01 and Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 running on supported editions of…
