Tag Archives: Web of Trust
Link Safety Checkers
There are resources available that will give indications about a link’s safety, but not all link safety guides are based on the same criteria, and if any one of them is treated without knowing how it works, what criteria it uses, and what its ratings mean, you are likely to misinterpret the results. IOW, when [...]
Full StoryFacebook Safer with Web of Trust
Facebook and WOT (Web of Trust) go together like peanut butter and jelly. The WOT Firefox and Internet Explorer add-on can help you stay safer from the dangers on Facebook. We all love to share links on Facebook with our friends and family, but sometimes we don’t know the dangers of what we are sharing [...]
Full StoryBeware of Facebook Credits Scam
There’s a chat message going around about getting 500 Facebook credits free. If you receive such a message like the image below, don’t click on the link. The message is not being sent from your friend, it’s from a program that has permission to send messages from your friends account. This scam can easily fool [...]
Full StoryCyber Criminals Armed and Dangerous for 2011
Cyber crime continues to grow at an alarming rate and in 2010 this proved to be very true with all the security breaches, exploits and viruses. What could we expect in 2011? You can bet that many scammers and criminals are already orchestrating their next attacks and most of these will be in the social [...]
Full StoryHoliday Spam and Not the Kind You Eat
My in-box has been getting hit hard lately by an onslaught of spam. I noticed that most, if not all the spam is about online deals. Spammers love the holidays and for good reason, people are always looking for great deals. The only problem is the deal you are getting is more than you bargained [...]
Full StoryHalloween Scary and Malicious
It’s creepy and it’s spooky, but sometimes sharing a link with friends and family can put them in harm’s way. You should be very careful on what Halloween links you click on and share as many of them lead to websites that have a poor reputation and low reliability. To be sure if a website [...]
Full StoryWeb of Trust – Never Surf the Web without it!
WOT (Web of Trust) has a community made up of security conscious people who have rated 28,761,721 websites, that’s millions. They’re your eyes and advisory against security risks. My friend g7w would call it “WOT Services Ltd. – gives us safety through Web of Trust and WOT Community – gives us security through unity.” I [...]
Full StoryHow to Protect Yourself from Phishing Attacks
Phishing attacks continue to grow at a rapid rate and are used mainly for identity fraud. Unfortunately these attacks are a lot easier to carry out. TrendLabs report that a new tool by the name “Super Phisher” has been detected: The tool creates all the files necessary for the Phishing page such as an .HTML [...]
Full StoryThank You Web of Trust!
Since 2008, Web of Trust (mywot.com) awards members for their hard work and contribution to the Web of Trust Community. It’s the community that makes the difference in the overall success of mywot.com by identifying and alerting users about online scams, malware and rogue software. Through these efforts, users can be more confident when surfing [...]
Full StorySecurity Threats, Worms and Spam Revisited
It was a busy year for security firms and 2010 will be more of the same. In 2009, we called it the Godzilla of worms – Conficker and its many variants. There were more than 40 misleading applications known also as scareware, fake security software and rogue software. The publishers of these misleading applications made [...]
Full StoryHow to Check if a URL is Safe
Before you click on an unknown URL, check it first using the Trend Micro Web Reputation Search Tool. This tool can also check your own website or blog to see if it’s harboring malicious code that could hurt your sites visibility through search. Did you know that in the United States alone, there are more [...]
Full StoryHow to Remove and Avoid Rogue Applications
There are many rogue applications that entice users to download through a popup or a new browser window that says the users computer is either infected, at risk, or has registry problems and it shows a simulated scan. STOP! Hit Ctrl+Alt+Del and in Task Manager, click on your browser and click End Process. Clean out [...]
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