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| StopBadware.org is a "Neighborhood Watch" campaign aimed at fighting badware. We will seek to provide reliable, objective information about downloadable applications in order to help consumers to make better choices about what they download on to their computers. We aim to become a central clearinghouse for research on badware and the bad actors who spread it, and to become a focal point for developing collaborative, community-minded approaches to stopping badware. StopBadware is proud to release our 2007 update on the state of badware on the web - "Trends in Badware 2007: What internet users need to know." The short report is a plain-English explanation of badware threats to user privacy and security, based on our research over the past year. It explains online security issues such as compromised websites, social networking scams, and other badware trends that pose significant risk to the average internet user. | Benzoy de perfecte oplossing - Bescherm je kind tegen een overmatig en extreem Surfgedrag en het verspillen van teveel kostbare tijd aan chatten. Geef een oplossing om deze waardevolle tijd optimaal te benutten en de juiste balans te vinden tussen surfen, Chatten/MSN-en en andere belangrijke(re) activiteiten. Reguleer het gebruik van Internet en chat met Benzoy; voor een betere, veiligere en een leukere online computer. | 
| ZoneAlarm®, a Check Point Software Technologies, Inc. Company, is one of the most secure brands in consumer Internet security. ZoneAlarm protects over 60 million PCs from viruses, spyware, hackers and identity theft. The award-winning Internet security product line is installed in consumer PCs and small businesses, protecting them from Internet threats. The ZoneAlarm family of products is among the most popular and successful Internet security products available on the market. | IronPort® Systems is the leading email and Web security products provider for organizations ranging from small businesses to the Global 2000. IronPort provides high performance, easy-to-use, and technically innovative products for those faced with the monumental task of managing and protecting their mission-critical networks from Internet threats. | Use e-mail software with built-in spam filtering
Microsoft SmartScreen is an intelligent spam-filtering solution that is integrated across all Microsoft e-mail platforms.
SmartScreen technology determines how to distinguish between legitimate e-mail messages and spam by using extensive user input from hundreds of thousands of MSN Hotmail and Windows Live Hotmail users.
The result is that more legitimate e-mails reach you and upwards of 95% spam is blocked. To learn more about how Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 helps protect against spam, see The 2007 Microsoft Office System: New security features. | There are now thought to be more than 200,000 malicious programs in existence - the vast majority of which are aimed at subverting Windows PCs.
These problem programs can arrive via e-mail, instant messenger, through your internet connection or even your web browser if you visit the wrong website. The threats are so numerous and appear so fast that Windows users must feel under siege.
While there is no doubt that attacks on PC users are getting more sophisticated, it is possible to avoid the vast majority of problems by taking some straight-forward steps and exercising some common sense.
If you are worried about your computer it is possible to scan it via the web to see if it is infected. Companies such as Trend Micro, Kaspersky and Microsoft all offer free scanning services.
Organisations such as the Computer Emergency Response Team (Cert) also offer advice on how to set up a safe net connection. | Free Virus Scan - Take the Kaspersky Challenge: See what your current antivirus is missing.
Our free online virus scanner is a great way to find out if you have any viruses or spyware on your machine without having to uninstall your current antivirus software or install a new one. Most importantly, you can see what viruses your current antivirus software let slip through! You just need to be online and using Internet Explorer.
The Kaspersky Online Virus Scanner uses Microsoft ActiveX technologies to scan your computer for malicious code and offers the same exceptional detection rates as other Kaspersky Lab products. | The Netcraft Toolbar community is effectively a giant neighbourhood watch scheme, empowering the most alert and most expert members to defend everyone within the community against phishing frauds. Once the first recipients of a phishing mail have reported the target URL, it is blocked for community members as they subsequently access the URL. Widely disseminated attacks (people constructing phishing attacks send literally millions of electronic mails in the expectation that some will reach customers of the bank) simply mean that the phishing attack will be reported and blocked sooner. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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