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Archive for December, 2011

Social networking is built on the idea of sharing information openly and fostering a sense of community. You want to use Facebook, but you also want to keep your private information from being spread all over the Internet.

Unfortunately, an online network of individuals actively sharing their experiences and seeking connections with other like-minded people can be easy prey for hackers bent on social-engineering and phishing attacks. Here are some ways to protect your privacy.

1. Control app permissions

With the new redesign comes an interesting policy called “frictionless sharing,” which says that apps only have to ask for your permission once before accessing your info or posting as you whenever they want.

You can’t change the policy, but you can control which friends get to see the app activity, change certain app permissions, or hide the activity entirely (without deleting the app).

2. Adjust privacy info, friends, and photos

There is probably some personal info you’d like to share with some people, but not others. For instance, you might want to show your current city to close friends, but your hometown to everyone.

To adjust these settings, click the area below your profile photo, and select “Edit” for each module, then use the drop-down menus to select the audience for any item.

To change the visibility of your friends list, click on the box at the top of your Timeline, and click “Edit” at the top. To change the visibility of photos, click the photos box from your Timeline, then change the settings for each album using the drop-down menus next to their titles.

3. Make Your Contact Information Private

I personally use Facebook for professional and personal use and it can frequently become overwhelming. That’s why I’ve taken the time to outline these ten privacy protection steps. One of the first things I did when I started approving friend requests from people that I hadn’t built a strong relationship with, was make my contact information visible only to close contacts.

4. Blocking People From your Profile

Of course if there’s a person you don’t want to see your Facebook page at all, you can always block them completely by selecting Privacy Settings from the Settings drop-down menu and clicking on Block List. Note, though, that while friendships/relationships on Facebook will be removed when you block someone, they may still use some apps that you do, be fans of the same things, etc., so you may still have some communication with them that way.

These are just a few ways that you can protect your privacy on Facebook. While there are a few other small things to keep in mind, these four settings are most important.

Keep in mind that while you may have turned off the visibility of many profile sections, there is no way to prevent all photos or videos from being visible if friends of yours make the images visible. It’s worth taking a look to ensure that your privacy is under protection.

What’s the best antivirus software? It’s not easy to say. However, what we can confirm is that a good antivirus software must contain five guard function.

Privacy Guard

Stop suspicious actions for accessing or destroying sensitive locations’s files.

Startup Guard

Stop suspicious malwares start with system.

Process Guard

Detect and stop suspicious malware process running in RAM.

Behavior Guard

Detect and stop malwares by analyzing malicious behavior and action.

Files Guard

Detect threads when you operating unknown files.

Information being hacked or passed around? Your credit card started being hit with AOL payments for someones account (not yours)? Don’t worry. The following suggestions may help you.

Your major concerns are Phisers and Key-loggers which will record your account information and send it back to someone else.

The best thing to come along is to download a master-password program, like PayPal and similar payment systems that will let you use one password and no login names at all your webpages which will prevent phisers and key-loggers from obtaining your real account information.

For your security on line, you should follow the suggestions above!

Good luck for you!

Sometimes you use folderlock to protect your files. Although the files kept in “locker” are locked in your computer, other networking computers can easily open and view the files.

So how to solve it? There’s no need to download extra programs for this. You can simply encrypt the files in question so that only your computer can

open them.

If you’re running Windows, then go into My Documents or My Computer and find the folder that contains the files in question (it could even be the entire My Documents folder if you wanted).

Right-click the folder you want to “lock” and in the pop-up menu choose Properties. On the “General” tab, near the bottom (next to “read-only” and “hidden” you’ll se a button that says “Advanced” — hit it). Now check the box that says “encrypt contents to secure data.” Click OK, then Apply. The files that are encrypted will now appear in green type and can only be opened by your computer unless you “decrypt” them.

Hope this helps.