Survey Results, "80 Percent Had Spyware"

Hi,

Note: I never type my credit card number on my computer. I just heard
the news about a survey on a group of home and business computers. "80
percent of the computers tested had active spyware running". Key loggers
that record your keystrokes is a major part of spyware.

Brad

Before you type your password, credit card number, etc.,
be sure there is no active key logger (spyware) in your PC.

If using your credit card no. online, perhaps to buy things, make sure that
you have security software installed with a "secure area" type feature that
will alert you, should a number sequence, such as credit card number
starting with e.g. 4929 6927 be about to exit your machine - while online !
Of course this requires that you have manually entered sensitive numeric
sequences into this "secure area" i.e. you've made the EFFORT to do so.

If you aren't in the middle of buying something online, while online, and
you're alerted to the string "4929 6927" is about to leave your machine -
there is a possibility that somebody is rummaging around inside your machine
and extracting data from it - that shouldn't be doing so - and you get the
chance to put a stop to it !

I think Norton Internet Security products offer such a feature.

regards, Richard


"Brad" wrote in message
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Hi,

Note: I never type my credit card number on my computer. I just heard
the news about a survey on a group of home and business computers. "80
percent of the computers tested had active spyware running". Key loggers
that record your keystrokes is a major part of spyware.

Brad

Before you type your password, credit card number, etc.,
be sure there is no active key logger (spyware) in your PC.