on british news this?

Question

morning one pc in america detected with thousands of british pc.s info.whats you views?

Answer 1

yeah its a little scary, untill you read the details, its thought the PC had around 2,500 credit card / user details hoovered soley from British systems. think of it in percentage terms, how many PC's are there in domestic use inthe UK, personnaly Ive no idea but I wouldnt mond guessign its well over the million mark... and that is a guess.

On a recent BBC poll around 3% of respondnts stated that they used a networked compouter without any anti virus of firewall.... barking especailly if you consider the people trying to take stuff from your computer.

So its not a time to be complacent, make sure you use a firewall, make sure you use an antivirus package (and keep it up to date). use a hardware firewall for preference (eg in a router or gateway), as one professional in the area has already stated if its a software firewall, then you cna alomost certainly circumvent it. But most of all dont visit dodgy sites, dont open emails in HTML, dont open any attachment unless you are expectign an attachment of that type (even if you trust the person.. unless it obviously is from that person ie the enclosed text makes it obvious who it is from)

Answer 2

Companies that sell pc's need to take more responsibility for alerting customers to which types of security software they need. Many people buy a pc with no experience, and there is no one well known and trusted source of info that you can send beginners to read.
There are so many potential problems we all need to become semi-expert to stay one step ahead fo the problems! More info won't help, its all available; just not in one easy tutorial.
If one company could write a basic list of software eg 'you need a firewall, an anti virus, an anti spyware; here's where to get it from free'; and all pc manufacturers printed it out and handed it out with every new pc it might help.

Answer 3

Well they are genuine PCs, the name hijacked by IBM from its common use before IBM hired Microsoft when their chosen expert refused work with them.
Nothing much else to say except Apple, well established by over ten years before IBM got into bed with Gates, could not have been milked.
Shame really, but a fact of life never the less.
Sheep are so easy to manipulate.
They respond easily to dogs.
My Mac will and does stop the C.I.A.
I don't know why they bother as my inbuilt spy, Daemon, probally does it for them?

Answer 4

It's propably been happening for years, using networks to detect other secure lines.... it really isn't that schoking. The Interent has become a very dangeours system with attempted hack being sent to your pc all the time:

Hopefully a good:

firewall
anti-virus
Sypotbot
and scanware destroy

help stop these....

Answer 5

If you don't want your computer to be at risk from anything, don't connect to any network. Don't put any discs into your computer. Don't even get a computer.

Answer 6

.....and then those who offer 'sources' on here for me to visit wonder why I say "why should I?"
I think this has just answered you all! If you don't know where you're going, then don't go!

Answer 7

not really surpised . the government probably has millions

Answer 8

I don't understand your question, sorry.

Answer 9

shocking

Answer 10

dont understand ?