Phishing for Information and Suckers

Hackers around the world have to continually get more clever in order to plant viruses and Trojans on your computers.

Now that security has started to improve on our computer systems computer hackers have found that it necessary to also be con men.

I have recently noticed an increase the number of emails that I have been receiving with attachments where the SPAMMER is tying to either entice me into giving them personal financial information (a technique called phishing) or tick me into downloading a virus onto my computer.

Most anti-virus software, firewalls and ad-ware programs do a good job of keeping the nefarious software invaders away, but if a computer con can convince you to launch the virus yourself it has a chance of getting past the security you have set up.

In this Help File Video I explain a bit more about phishing, viruses and Trojans.