Sunday, April 8, 2012

PSA: Stop watching teh pron (social engineering and you)

It's a little know fact but watching porn on your computer will lead to viruses. But sadly this is not the most common infection site. It's all to common for users to casually click on every single link on the internet. Worse yet, they have no idea what their clicking on.

But let me back up. Why do I care what you click on? Because I'm your friendly neighborhood IT man. When you go pushing through pages like their going out of style your undoubtedly going to walk away from it with an itchy biting feeling, and in a few days or weeks end up with a bill from your IT friend.

The web is not your friend. The web is full of dirty tricks and garbage specifically designed to trick you into clicking on it. It's damn near an epidemic how bad things are, and only getting worse.

As much as I hate AntiVirus software, you need it on a PC. But you don't have to pay for it. Their are free, open source AV programs. Just ask your IT friend for a solid recommendation.

But please before you even do that, do yourself a favor and think before you click!

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