1. Protect Your Computer Against Harmful Attacks!

2. What Can Harm You? Viruses, Worms, and Trojan Horses Phishing Scams
Beware of Threats to You and Your Computer
What Can Harm You?
Viruses, Worms, and Trojan Horses
Phishing Scams
Spyware
Protection

3. What Are Viruses, Worms, and Trojan Horses?
A virus
is a program that can copy itself and infect your computer without your permission or knowledge.
A worm
spreads without your action and distributes complete copies of itself across networks.
A trojan horse
masks as a useful program but actually does damage.

4. What Can These Programs Do?
Viruses may damage hardware, software, or data.
Worms may exhaust memory or bandwidth.
A trojan horse may damage hardware, software, or data while appearing to be useful.

5. How Do You Protect Yourself?
Never open attachments from unknown senders.
Be careful sharing files.
Back up files often.
Use anti-virus software and keep it current.

6. What Is Phishing?
A fraudulent designed to steal your personal information such as passwords, bank account information, credit card numbers, or other valuable information.

7. How Does Phishing Work?
A deceptive is sent appearing to come from a Web site you trust and may contain
requests for personal information from you.
logos from real organizations stolen from legitimate Web sites.
links to “spoofed” Web sites.

8. What Should You Look For?
Watch for the following catch phrases in you believe is fraudulent:
“Verify your account information”
“If you don’t respond within 48 hours, your account will be closed.”
“Click the link below to gain access to your account”
Organizations should not ask you to send passwords, login name, Social Security numbers, or other personal information through

9. What Does a Phishing Filter Do?
Scans visited Web sites for characteristics of known online frauds and scams and warns if the site is suspicious
Includes an online service that blocks you from confirmed scams
Provides a way to report suspicious sites or scams

10. What is Spyware?
Software designed to take partial control of your computer without your knowledge and without obtaining your permission.

11. What does spyware do? Invades your privacy
Transmits information about you online
Blasts you with pop up ads
Changes your home page or search engine
Adds new, unwanted toolbars to browser
Slows down or crashes your computer
Most harmful forms of spyware can record your keystrokes allowing the capture of passwords, login info, id numbers, SS#s, and bank info

12. How do You Defend Against Spyware?
Download anti-spyware software.
Only download from sites you trust.
Read privacy statements and license agreements.
Close pop-up ads with the red x.

13. How Do You Protect Your Computer?
Use a firewall.
Update your operating system.
Use up-to-date antivirus software.
Use a phishing filter.
Use up-to-date antispyware software.

14. Resources
The information provided in this presentation includes information obtained from:
OnGuard Online
Microsoft Online Safety
Microsoft Security: 4 Steps to Protect your computer