Tuesday, August 08, 2006

Are you safe and secure online?


Today, Internet growth has exploded into a latest sheer. Most of the people around the globe use the internet now for many different purposes such as a huge wave of communication through electronic mail, file transfer, transaction applications, Online Banking, Online business and much more. Thus internet appears to be more convinient and useful for the users , there are also so many technical issues surrounding the vast network of World Wide Web. One such technical issue which needs to be taken care is the Internet Security. As the usage of internet grows and grows, there are number of people who try to exploit them on web in a bad manner, unless the user is aware of how to protect themselves online.

There are sevaral hacking threats and attempts on the Internet via e-mail, Web and Instant Messaging (IM), where hackers use some malicious code - such as viruses, worms, and Trojan horses to steal personal information like passords, credit card number etc and even delete some information from an unprotected computer. A firewall can help protect your computers against these kinds of security threats and attacks. An recent study estimates that spam comprises 60 % or more of the world's e-mail traffic. So as a real human being we should pick some of the best internet security software to safeguard and secure ourselves online.

There are en-number of internet security softwares that safeguards from Internet attacks, vulnerabilities, malicious code etc. The future trends shows that a online business without proper internet security solutions would cause more damage to a company's reputation and assets as not of being a trusted source. Several security firms such as
Verisign, Comodo, Go Daddy Inc etc have helped introducing solutions such as internet security softwares, SSL – Secure Sockets Layer for web etc to carry secure online transactions.

To provide the computer/internet security the users need to effectively secure their PC now and in the future by installing some PC Desktop security softwares like Firewall, Anti-virus, Anti-Spam etc. Also online business people should install an digital certificate to ensure trust online to their customers, which my bring more business to them. Some of the leading software solutions provider such as
Comodo, ZoneAlarm provide PC security softwares for free of cost just to Create Trust Online. So our part is to identify the best solution which suits our needs and have them installed to ensure that our PC is safe and secure from hackers and phishers.
Internet has not only made the world even smaller and brought people closer but also have paved way for the rapid growth in e-commerce activities. So recommended good internet security practices will help reduce the exposure to attacks and would certainly mitigate the impact of cross-domain vulnerabilities as well. And well the interest in internet security practices will assure a successful outcome in the center stage when globally accepted.

Article Written by - R.Yuvaraj

Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Wanna report phishing..........Here's the clue

Many people though they identify a mail as a fradulent one's, they just skip as such and proceed with their work. Some reasons for this is that they don't want to spend time on reporting or they are not aware of where to report a phishing attack. Major percent of people all over the world is not aware of where to report a fradulent email or site. Here's some of anti-phishing group who fight against phishing. Ah! now you may report phishing, spam and privacy related problems in any of the group below.


1.) Anti-Phishing Working Group - http://www.antiphishing.org/


2.) Federal Trade Commission - http://www.consumer.gov/idtheft/

3.) United States CERT - http://www.us-cert.gov/nav/report_phishing.html and more.


Lets start fighting against phishing togeather and save our people from being cheated.

Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Try to understand what is Spam?

Many people including some people working in an Internet security products company is unable to identify the SPAM emails. Protect yourself and your computer from known and unknown virus attacks using a best internet security software, website and email encryption.

I got this spam email forwarded to me from one of my friends who himself is working for a software company. The mail goes like this.

Subject:FW.[SPAM] I am writing this behalf of my loving husband

Dear Reader,

I am writing this behalf of my loving husband.

Everything was fine, me, my husband and our two children. We had ahappy family. My husband was an Engineer in a big company. He comes homeearly and helps me with the house chores and plays with the children.

Our dreams was shattered in front of our eyes last week. It was adrunk lorry driver, came on the wrong side and hit us and went.

It killed my little baby girl and left my husband paralyed. My husbandis still in the hospital. His brain is damaged and he needs a operation. Ineed 5 lahks to save his life. I collected about 3 lahks from my friends andfamily. I need another 2 lahks.

I don't want to lose him. He was such a wonderful husband & father. Hestill doesn't know we lost our little girl. I am looking after my son now.Without my husband I won't be able to takecare of him.

Please help me save my husband the one person I dearly love. I alreadylost my daughter and I don't want to lose my husband as well. Please helpus.

Thank you very much for your love & support. May God bless you.

Yours Truly,
Nirosha Silva

(I know you don't like to forward mails. I am really sorry to botheryou. If you have a heart and like to help a family, please forward thismail. Every mail you forward will add 5cents to AOL and they will deposit itto my bank account. Which will help me save my husband.)

Points to be noted here.

1.) In the subject the Mail Server itself shows that its a SPAM
2.) The Content
3.) IT states "Every mail you forward will add 5cents to AOL", Here note that there is no Track Back url.
4.) If any service provider wants to pay for this kind of activities they might get a small space for donation in their website.

Note: If you are going to make a donation online, see if that the website is a legitimate one. Also you might have noted and experienced as well that you would get money if you forward this mail to 100 people etc and so on. So inorder to do this the SPAMMERS they use the reputed companies name like Microsoft Corporation, AOL and so on. Also sometimes it comes with some attachments which might be a virus file.

Though there are Spam Blockers installed in the system, people anyway manage to get thest kinds of email and forward it to their friends in their contact list.

So it is in the hands of us, not to encourage these kinds of emails.


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Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Comodo Free Softwares - Direct Links


Hey its me (Yuvaraj). Here is the direct links downloads for our free comodo Softwares.
Download these Free softwares and Make your PC Secure.

Verification Engine :
http://www.vengine.com

Comodo Personal Firewall :
http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com

Comodo AntiVirus :
http://www.antivirus.comodo.com/

Comodo AntiSpam :
http://www.comodoantispam.com/

Comodo BackUp :
http://www.backup.comodo.com/

Comodo i-Vault (Password Manager) :
http://www.comodogroup.com/products/i-vault/licence.html

Free SSL :
www.instantssl.com

Comodo TrustFax :
http://www.trustfax.com/

We Create Trust Online. The Links would well explain the features of the softwares.


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Monday, July 03, 2006

Where must we consider Internet Security?

The practice of protecting, preventing the PC from hackers and preserving private information and resources on the world wide web is termed to be internet security, Web Security, Website Security or Control Internet Access. Not only this but also there are few steps which needs to done to protect our PC too!

To secure our private inforamtion and PC some of the following features needs to be fulfilled. These might be like the below.

Routers - improves the security of a home LAN

Firewalls - Filters some bad website / content that create defense in depth.

Viruses, worms and trojan horses - Hackers are people who are in some unreputable companies writing programs like viruses, worms, trojan horses and spyware. These programs are all unwanted softwares that would be developed in a way that it install automatically in our computer through deception.

Browser choice - The one which should be consider while surfing on internet is the browser. Hackers prime target for phishing is by these kinds of browsers. So a secure browser or a software that secures your browser needs to be installed.

And some of the others where security needs to be considered is like Spyware, adware etc.

Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Comodo Free Email Certificate - Digitally sign your emails

Now the phishers target via email with known ids, so we need definitely have a secure email. Now we provide free email certificate for personal use to encrypt emails and attachments.

What does this do?

Free Secure Email Certificates allow you to encrypt and digitally sign email and attachments keeping them secure and confidential. Encrypt your emails to ensure that the message and attachments may only be read by the intended recipients. you can Digitally Sign your emails to prove that the message and attachments really came from you and not some spammers, Also Digitally Sign your emails to ensure that the message and attachments cannot be tampered with en route via the Internet without the recipient being alerted to the tampering. As no there are en number of spammers this email certificates would be more helpful. To know more about this visit
http://www.comodogroup.com/products/certificate_services/email_certificate.html

Wednesday, June 14, 2006

Oh! Worried about carrying on online financial transactions! Don't worry Vengine is here for you!

Vengine performs as a Anti-Phishing and Identity Assurance tool, Content verification, Online Fraud Detection and as well as Site Verification tool. This tool can be downloaded free from http://www.vengine.com

VerificationEngine - the multi-browser anti-phishing and identity assurance tool for Microsoft Windows offers an extremely simple and innovative user friendly interface to differentiate legitimate web sites from fraudulent ones.


With Vengine, You (Consumers) can verify the legitimacy of any sites say banking, shopping or any other related sites where financial transactions are involved. This tool is really meant for establishing trust, authenticate identities and ensure trusted online transactions which automatically distinguishes between true & fake sites by just a roll over of the mouse on the company logo or content which you needs verification.

You can install vengine and forget about that, Whenever you open any bank related or non-bank related sites like yahoo it would be verified automatically when your mouse points out to their logo.

Also this tool is of so much interest and importance for consumer who does online transactions. Each and every time you don't have to open your padlock for verification, this tool will automatically verify your padlock symbol too!.

To know more, click on to
http://www.vengine.com/products/features.html

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