Online security: 80 steps of defense for NET users - Part I

Whether your computer is 3 years old or only 3 days old, they all face similar security problems. Viruses and worms computers are always stalking your system every time you go online; Spyware hides in e-mails or attempts to break into the system through online advertisements.

Malicious trojans at any time and follow your footsteps in online life and get ready with deep scammers to tear up the system to steal your personal information, destroy the system your system

Therefore, our summary article below will hopefully help you between a safe part of 'online life' - life is gradually becoming an inevitable part of life.

1. Advertising in the security context of the operating system

Pop-up ads always make you feel annoyed. But if that online ad is branded an operating system warning in the sense that you are having a security problem, if you are not careful your frustration could double.

Designers of this type of advertising have taken advantage of psychology or anxiety as well as the lack of user knowledge to trick them into visiting their website or downloading unwanted software.

Often these types of ads are designed but a Windows warning dialog, for example, but it is still an advertisement. However, many of these ad designers also have the title 'Advertisement' in the right corner of the screen, but many people do not aim to trick users into misunderstanding that they are actually having problems and have to click on 'Yes' to get help.

Sadly, even if you click on 'Yes' or' No 'even anywhere of this' fake dialog', you will be directed to the homepage of that ad and 'welcome 'some software is not desirable, even viruses, computer worms or trojans.

So how can you recognize that it is a real operating system window and what is an advertisement? Firstly, please be honest when you see a warning dialog box window appear and observe the title bar of that dialog box, the thaism status bar at the top and bottom of the window - this is The key points tell you if it's a fake advertising Internet Explorer window or a real Windows warning dialog.

If you still have doubts, right-click on the dialog box and select the ' Properties ' tab, everything will appear before your eyes. A true IE warning dialog will usually start with 'res:' and if it is an ad, there will be a real web address.

The important thing here is that you should not react too quickly to be reckless when faced with these types of advertising. Sometimes there are third-party applications that give such warnings but it is still true that fake is still fake.

2. Windows tools will say it all

Using the Windows Task Manager tool to check the processes running in the background of the operating system is a pretty good solution. However, sometimes this tool cannot reveal all that is running hidden in the background of the particular operating system that is assigned 'svhost'. These are the processes that Windows groups into so-called 'services' - there are many different services running together? How to know this?

To know them, you need to have other tools that can break down sub-processes in detail. You can refer to the Sysinternals tool that Pcmag.com suggests for you. You can refer to this tool here.

Not only that, there are many other tools to help you reveal everything about running in the background of the operating system. We hope to have another article to help you learn about these tools.

3. Register personal domain name

ICANN - International domain name management organization - sets out that you must provide WHOIS data information about your domain name - that is, information about domain name owners, contacts, email address . This kind of information is really valuable for spam or phishing. To avoid it, you need to hide information like this. How to hide it?

The usual solution is to provide fake information, most of which is email, but this is a very dangerous thing. There are many people who lose their domain names due to providing fake information because the domain registration service provider cannot contact the domain owner. However, some domain name registration service providers have a solution to offer secret personal domain name registration services.

Network Solutions Private Domain Registration
GoDaddy DomainsByProxy

Using the registration service of these service providers, when someone else sees the WHOIS information, instead of seeing your actual information, it is only possible to see the information of the service provider. .

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