Thursday 29 November 2007

Let’s All Be Careful Out There

If you are using Windows as your OS and Internet Explorer as your browser then you are at risk of having your computer highjacked by rogue hackers.

This story highlights the lengths to which they will go in targeting their victims by what part of the year we have reached. So it has been stopped for now but these guys never give up and will return sooner rather than later.

You can protect yourself to some extent by ensuring that your Windows contains all the latest security patches from Mickeysoft.

Far better though to use Firefox as your browser, I have been using both for some time now and have found that even though pop ups are disabled in both only Firefox actually stops them occurring at all sites.

You can get it here and it is free - woo hoo.

PS and if you use Outlook as your mail client they supply a less likely to be hacked client called Thunderbird - liked the film then get the client.

2 comments:

phlegmfatale said...

I just hope there doesn't come a day when the web is un-usable due to this kind of b/s. One can't be too careful.

DBA Dude said...

Very true Phlegmmy, I run 3 different anti SpyWare programs as well as a firewall and anti virus.

You can never be too paranoid.