Comments on: Online Security : Six Essential Tips

By: Stop Identity Theft With Sentry Bay Personal Data Protection Suite | Anti-Keylogger, Anti-Screen Capture and Anti-Phishing

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:46:12 +0000

[...] to its dangers. In an earlier post, I had outlined some basic steps you can take to enhance your online security. However, if you want to be more proactive about protecting yourself, you will probably like the [...]

By: rody @ Satellite Internet

rody @ Satellite Internet — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 06:56:11 +0000

Online security is very important when our system is connected with internet because our most of the hackers try to leak of our documents. Some of the essential tips of protecting system and documents from hackers are: we should use password which contains alphabets, number and symbols and the password should be unique and it should not allow software to remember it. We should be careful about security question better write our own question in it.
Hacker managed to break into your inactive hot mail account listed as secondary e-mail in his Gmail profile. So donâ€™t be casual about your secondary e-mail account. We should use am updated anti virus so that our PC doesn’t have any male ware. We should make it hard for the hacker to hack you system.

By: Graham G

Graham G — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:27:40 +0000

Lots of good Points.

Heard a story about a cleaner who put a keylogger in an office the next day they rang saying they where from the bank and there was a problem with there account. A few second later the employee logged into their online account to check and their password was captured, very sneaky!!
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By: Pallab

Pallab — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:31:25 +0000

Thanks for the comment.

Carrying an AV has many limitations. The biggest being that often the cyber-cafe’s use Guest accounts (low privilege accounts) and many AVs won’t work properly.
The other issue is that it takes time to run a scan. Even a quick scan will take some time. And god help you if the machine is a sluggish one (as most of them are in Indian cybercafes due to poor maintainence). ANd finally, there are new keloggers coming out every day. So you AV may very well miss it. The kernel based keyloggers can be difficult to detect.

By: chinmoy

chinmoy — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:21:46 +0000

well, i thought of a post on secure surfing..nice to see it coming from you. Too many things to learn.
Another thing is for those casual surfers who use cyber-cafes without checking for the presence of any keylogger or any malicious softwares. Atleast, let an antivitus be a must if you are accessing your accounts anywhere else than home. You can also take portable scanners, some of them are good at detecting most keyloggers.
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