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Protect yourself from various forms of "malware" viruses, ad-ware, spyware etc. BECAUSE... the goal of an attacker is to install a Trojan on your machine that will allow them to control your machine.
Step-by-step Virus removal instructions.
They turn it into a Zombie machine - not under your controL NOW YOUR COMPUTER is under their control. Hundreds of thousands if not millions of machines are "owned" by someone other that the user sitting in front of the keyboard and monitor. These bad people control your PC, grab your passwords, and get lots of machines together to organized DDOS attacks and jump from machine to machine to machine in order to hide their tracks. Trojans are also used to mess with you. You now own a zombie machine, so they can surreptitiously turn on the Webcam of your computer in order to watch you work, or watch what you type on screen and then send you popup messages insulting you. Here are some great articles on what's needed to expunge spyware - and prevent its re-emergence.
BotNets
The #1 virus transmission method in recent years has been via exchanging Microsoft Office
documents
(especially MS Word documents). This happens because MS Office documents can have
"macros" (Visual Basic programs) attached, and these programs can be malicious. Many of the
recent
spate of e-mail worms have been transmitted as MS Office documents.
To help contain such problems, users should know that MS Word has an alternate file format called
"Rich Text Format" (RTF) that does not include the capability to attach macros. An
RTF
document contains almost all of the same formatting information as a standard Word (.DOC) file.
But
RTF files cannot be infected with viruses.
Organizations that want to reduce the costly
overhead of virus infection may wish to mandate that Word documents are to be exchanged only in RTF form.
To
save a document as RTF, simply select "File -> Save as" and in the dialog box, select
"Rich Text Format" from the "Save as type" field. Think of this as good hygiene:
sending
a .DOC file should be considered about as appealing as sharing a used handkerchief with a friend.
Unintentional Attachments
My recent experience of playing with a half-dozen or so different email programs and what they
can/can't
do.
How to keep your email off a webpage to prevent a bot from harvesting it.
- Email Harvesting Robots (aka spambots). Learn to hide your email address from bad bots who troll to grab and spam. Autonomous bots spider the web day and night in waves, crawling pages and following links until they discover an unsuspecting MAILTO tag. Then they pounce, devouring the address and sending it deep into the bowels of the web where the ugly, festering spam companies dwell.
- Hide My Email Address: Try Hivelogic Email Address Encoder to encode your email address for use on webpages.This is using a Numerical Equivalent code to foil the bots.
- E-Mail Icon Generator. People will have to write down your email address to send you an email and it will keep spam away as they can not read it.
- Email Address Munger/Email Address Obfuscator
- Free PHP Contact Form Generator Script
- contact form along with munging your email addresses