Be cautious when accessing the Internet the last days of the year

Christmas and the beginning of the new year are always a time when users are caught off guard and the chances of getting a cybercrime are high.

Noel is coming to the old year is about to pass, the world is jubilantly activities to welcome the new year 2010, this is a golden moment for cyber criminals to perform fraudulent attacks to users. Network security in Vietnam is also in the general trend of world cyber security. The spread of malicious code is still primarily through YM, email, pop-up ads or fake online services .

On this occasion, online shopping services are promoted, online frauds are also promoted by criminals, the familiar form of attack is to attack reputable websites and have the number of visitors high counter.

Virus analysts of CMC Security Company InfoSec recommend Windows users in Vietnam during this time:

- Buy and use reputable antivirus software . This also means that users should check the latest antivirus software updates, scan all files on the computer periodically.

- Do not open and run files from untrusted sources . Do not trust the file of the attached file. At this time, taking advantage of the negligence of internet users, cybercriminals often send viruses, malicious code .

- Continuously checking and installing updates for Windows, Internet Explorer, Office, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Java, FoxIt PDF Reader, Adobe Flash Player because most software has security holes, so it needs to be updated patches to prevent malicious software from exploiting it.

- If using Internet Explorer 6, users should consider switching to a more modern browser or upgrading to Internet Explorer 8 - recommended by IE6's own parent, Microsoft. Poor compatibility and security is the phenomenon of IE 6 users encounter.

- Do not access websites of unknown origin and check links before accessing whether it is the link of the website you want to visit or not. For example, hackers can lure users to http://yahoo.com-yahoo.com, controlled by hackers who think they are going to http://yahoo.com, resulting in users. Users may lose their accounts to hackers.

- Turn off AutoRun function for USB.