Discussing viruses, hacking, and worms in class was something that I know about but didn't understand before then. I knew there were three types viruses, worms, and fake emails (spoofing). I heard of spyware thanks to my mom. She had our home computer attacked by spyware downloading a game off of a website.
I never heard of sniffing and the trojan horse one. Although I knew about spoofing I never knew that was the technical term for that. I remember getting a fake email once from someone trying to run a scam on me. Two weeks later after seeing the email it was on the news for scamming a old lady who fell for it.
I didnt really know anything about viruses and I really didn't care about them until I downloaded a video and it ATTACKED my computer. I had to start over, losing pictures, documents, music files EVERYTHING. But please believe I learned my lesson.
ReplyDeleteI consider myself to be very computer-savvy, but I just got ripped off by a spoofing scam on Craigslist. Be careful!
ReplyDeletei worry about everything giving my computer a virus. I dont open e mails I dont know. I always run my protection and everything and dont download most things.
ReplyDeleteEverybody should take a class on computer security. I think the greatest threat these days are the ones online. Millions of people get attacked everyday and do not even know of it. Everybody should be made aware.
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