Swine Flu has been causing panic in the public. Almost everyone wants to get hold of this sickness most updated news. But keep in mind that phishers and spammers might take this chance to trick you.
As mentioned by Tony Bradley in About.com, domain names related to “Swine Flu” are being snatched up. Hackers and phishers might use this to host malware, or phishing attacks.
In this case, it’s always useful to BE SCEPTICAL, and AVOID e-mails related to “Swine Flu”
All browsers have the basic function to improve user experience ie., faster web page downloading speed. Everybody wants light speed download rate, but there is a drawback to this function. Phishers can get your personal information using this function!
So, how does phishers get them? Three ways for them to get hold of your PIN and which banking sites you use.
1) Browser History Sniffing. Phishers check for link color change in your browsing history file and compare with their master list. A mismatch of colors let them know that the site have been visited by you. If you don’t want to clear cookies and set brower history to zero, then you will need to change how IE and Firefox handle visited link color.
2) Cache Timer Attacks. Cache helps to speed up performance but this loading time can give information to trackers as whether you load it from your computer or from the original site. If the loading time indicates that you are loading from your cache, then they know you have visited the site before.
3) Through Adobe Flash Cookies. Adobe Flash Cookies partner with sites such as Microsoft, eWeek, PayPal, Flickr and many other sites. So, even if you clear all cookies everyday, having Adobe Flash installed is just wasting your effort to clear cookies. What you can do is to change the Website Privacy Setting in Adobe Flash Player setting manager.
Preventing phishers from sniffing into your computer can helps reducing your risk to scams.
For more details, read Mary Landesman’s article
I’d read from Mary Landesman’ article in About.com regarding the Best Free Antivirus Software for Windows and Mac Users today and thought it is very useful for computer users to know the differences between the best known antivirus softwares: Avira, Avast, AVG, PC Tools iAntivirus and ClamXav. Take a look at the article and then decide on which one will give you the best protection.
Click the link below for details:
When you use Firefox browser in conjuction with Google search engine, Google will prefetch the first page of the results. This means the first result page and the cookies associated will be downloaded to your computer even though you never click the link. If you do not want prefetch function, you can disable it by:
2) Type about:config in the address bar and press Enter
3) Scroll down the resulting preference list to network.prefetch-next
4) Double click network.prefetch-next so the value is set to false.
5) Close Firefox and restart it to enable the change.
Source: About.com article by Mary Landesman
Wow! I thought Twitter is the end in microblogging world, check out the Flutter! What will happen if Flutter really exist?
In the video, Flutter is also like Twitter but with text limit of only 26 characters allowed! It’s great that you don’t have to read 140 characters from each of your followers’ tweet and will eventually speed up the time you spend in reading tweets.
Personally, if Flutter were to exist, I still prefer to use Twitter as my microbloging tool, to post my Plinky answers and update my followers of my latest blog post.
I wonder what will come up after tinyurl has definitely do a good job in shrinking long url for twitter users. Nanourl? Yeap, definitely!
Check out the video for more detail of what Flutter is (just imaginary).
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