Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Threats when on the Internet
- Computer Crimes
- Steal money
- Steal data/personal information
- Cause havoc for fun
- Illegally copying music and other paid files for free
- Viruses
- Software programme designed to copy itself over and over
- The first one was made in the 1980's
- Ways of spreading
- Email attachments
- downloading files from a webpage
- Ways of getting rid of them
- Installing anti-virus software
- McAfee
- Norton
- Sophos
- Coding
- Attacks files on computer
- Cookies
- Text file
- Conatins two pieces of information - a unique ID and a site name
- Not often a threat
- Only a threat when using a shared computer
- How to protect from threats
- Purchase anti-vitus and firewall protection
- Don't give out any personal details
- Don't use the same password for all websites
- Change your password every couple of months
- Use a strong password consisting of 7 or more characters, which includes numbers, UPPER and lower case letters and symbols
- If on a shared computer, log out of all accounts after use.