Friday, October 23, 2009

Is Vundo Virus Finally Gone? Keep it Off Your PC With Safe Internet Browsing Techniques

Browsing the internet can be dangerous to your computers health, but if you follow these 5 steps you can reduce your chance of installing a Trojan virus like vundo onto your computer significantly. After you have removed vundo or any other spyware, adware, trojan or computer virus make sure it doesn't happen again by employing these safe browsing tips.

5 Safe Internet Browsing Tips

#1 Install an Automatic Scanning Anti-spyware program

We recommend Spyware Doctor with Antivirus, having a program like this
should stop allmost all problematic files from being installed in the first place.

#2 Don't Go To Bad Sites

What is a Bad Site you ask? A bad site is any non-reputable site that can
potentially download bad files onto your computer without your knowledge.
A few examples include;
● Some Adult Sites that have lots of text links
● Link Farm Sites
● Torrent Downloading Sites
● Redirection Links
● Fake Spyware and Adware Removal Sites
The best way to realize what sites you are going to is by looking at links as you click them, we will go over that below.

#3 Don't Click on Pop up Ads- EVER!!!

This is a big one, never click on pop up ads that appear without you clicking on any link. These types of pop-ups are commonly used by spyware and adware to send you directly to sites that install bad files onto your computer. Although not all of the pop-ups are bad links, it is better to avoid them all. Again if any ad appears seemingly out of nowhere- just exit out with the top right X box. Installing a Antispyware program like Spyware Doctor or Spyzooka will stop most bad pop ups from opening with their ad-blockers.

#4 Be Aware of link urls

Look at the URL of Links before you click on them, and make sure that they are complete URLs and look normal. When you hover over a link with your mouse cursor, if you look in the bottom left hand corner you will see the full destination url of that link.

If the link looks normal like this pages link you are good:
website dot whatever/vundo-trojan/how-to-never-get-vundo-again/
But if it looks like this:
website dot whatever/ihopaf09238rfa/78asi?udf87-jkdfu3c

You might want to watch out for that link unless you are on a site that you know is legitimate. Not every link that looks like this is bad, just sometimes so it is up to you to determine which sites you trust.

#5 Know When It is safe to give your information away!

Commerce on the internet has exploded in the past couple of years, and everyone is starting to shop online. This is great, but you have to know when your credit card information is safe. Having a computer clean of any spyware, adware or Trojans is very important to being safe online because of keyloggers. The Trojan.vundo can download them and they are very bad, it is keyloggers that record all information input into text fields and sends them to a database without your knowledge.

After you have removed all infections with a vundo removal tool, it is easy to tell if a page is safe to input your credit card or other personal information. First off there are two different ways internet pages show up: With a http at the beginning, or with an added s, https. The second is the one that you want on the order page, as https indicates a secure server. Also depending on your browser, a picture should appear with a closed lock to indicate encryption on the page. Only the closed lock icon is sure to be secure.(Jake Michael Black)

Download Spyware Doctor free

No comments:

Post a Comment