4 Quick Tips — How to Protect Yourself Online
How to Protect Yourself Online
Internet users can protect themselves from cybercrime with the following quick tips:
• Only download mobile apps from official app stores, such as iTunes and the Android Market, and read user reviews before downloading them.
• Be extra vigilant when reviewing and responding to emails. (I call this “use paranoid common sense”.)
• Watch out for too-good-to-be-true offers on social networks, like free airline tickets. Never agree to reveal your personal information just to participate in a promotion. (Or get a free magazine subscription..)
• Don’t accept requests on social networks from people you don’t know in real life. Wait to post pictures and comments about your vacation until you’ve already returned home.
I am not sure I agree with the order McAfee chose to put these in.. but I assure you this is good information here.
Today’s quote: “The best helping hand that you will ever receive is the one at the end of your own arm.” ~ Fred Dehner
Today’s chuckle:
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I am a Retired computer & network technician. I used to think the machines were pretty cool. Now I don’t.
They’re anything but.
I regularly posted how-to’s and tricks & tips and general computing advice here starting in 2007. (Use the Search tool to find answers. But be aware, many are rather dated.) Sometimes I answered (your) specific questions in an article if I believed the answer was generally helpful to “everyone”. All the writing you see was my own, typos and all. There always is/was an implied “IMHO” in what you see here.
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