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It is found in a research that English speaking countries are targeted more for identity thefts. It rates to twice the rate of many European countries. Reports of identity fraud victims are 10% in the US, Canda and the United Kingdom. These being English speaking countries. Germany, France and Spain only reported a 5% rate of identity fraud. The Germans enjoy the lowest ratio of identity fraud among the specified countries, reporting only 3% identity fraud cases. While the Germans may have helped themselves to be more less riskier of being identity theft victims du to the fact that they are more cautious in handling their passwords. Only one in four Germans, according to the survey ever revealed their password to anyone they know. Unlike in the US where 60% of the respondents reported to have shared their passwords with their loved ones and or family members. Next is the French which totaled 56% over all. AMericans tend to write down their passwords so they would know what it is when they forget. The Freanch and Spanish users are the most lax in handling their passwords.

Privacy Eraser- they are programs developed to clear private date saved in your browser. These softwares help keep your information concealed and secured. Anything we do in our computer is saved and mapped over the memory. Stored in the hard drive for future use. All these slowly eats up precious system?resources, leaving less space for other things you need to do in your pc. The computer grows slower everyday.This is where the the Internet/Privacy Eraser comes in. It literally erases the stored temporary files, permanently deleting it so as to free up you hard disk space. Some softwares have plug-ins that comply with Defense standards. The eraser software offers useful tools that cleans the cache, cookies, browser history etc.

So you might want to try them out now, and free up that space that you so ever need.

Spying in China  poses “the single greatest risk” to U.S. technology, said a congressional advisory panel, which also called people to start protecting computer networks and industrial secrets. In addition, the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission in its annual report to Congress asked for closer work with China in promoting energy security, and in dealing with the problems that the environment is facing, like  pollution and climate change. U.S. Congress was sked to examine “military, intelligence, and homeland security programs that monitor and protect critical American computer networks and sensitive information, specifically those tasked with protecting networks from damage caused by cyberattacks.”

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What to do if you get “phished”

If you think that you may have fallen prey to the methods mentioned above and might have spilled important information about your organization, the wisest thing to do is to report right people within the organization, people in charge and the network administrators also. By doing this, your bosses may be aware of the “spying” being done in the company so that they can come up with a solution to counter it.

And if you suspect that your financial accounts are in danger, immediately contact your financial institution to close the accounts you think you may have leaked information about. Watch out for any suspicious changes or transaction involving that account.

Immediately contact the police and inform them about the incident

Be Careful on the sites you browse, some contain self installing programs designed to get information from you such as account numbers and passwords

Never send sensitive information in the Internet before checking a web site’s security policy. Also be sure to check the URL of the website as some websites are designed to appear to be the real sites.

You can confirm if the email request is legitimate, by contacting the company directly for verification. Of course don’t use the one provided in the email.
Always keep an anti-virus installed and maintain your computer system’s firewalls and email filters to lower chances of getting infected.

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Be cautious of the people who contact or attempt to contact you.

You may never know, today’s advanced technology can also be used as instruments of deception.

Never entertain unsolicited phone instant messages, email messages or any other type of communication from unknown individuals/parties asking for information especially private and undisclosed ones. Some may even request information about your company so unless you are certain about the person’s authority, never supply the information.
Some people would try to “fish” for financial information using the email, never respond to these especially email solicitations for this information. Beware of the links and documents attached with the message following links sent in email.

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What is a phishing attack?

Phishing is done by people who desire to obtain information, be it personal or most oftentimes financial to be used for their own motives. People who perform phishing attacks usually make use of email or web sites. They may send emails from a reputable institution such as bank accounts asking for information. And when the recipient of the message responds with the requested information, they will be able to use it to access to the accounts.

This leads to several net crimes, they can invade your accounts to extract personal information, pretend that you are them or even steal money from your bank account.

Thousands of cases like these were reported in the past years. So it would be wise to be cautious in who we spill our private information.

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Customer Support
AVG Technologies has provided AVG Anti-Virus 8 users with an e-mail technical support within. In their site Grisoft.com there is FAQs site which will be useful for users who are having trouble. There is also a downloadable 124-page users’ manual in PDF format. Like the previous versions AVG does not provide telephone technical support or a free online user’s forum for entertaining questions from troubled users..

Conclusion
Overall, AVG Anti-Virus 8.0 works great on the detection and removal of virus, malware and spyware. It also works well in blocking Web threats. Future updates are also available to strengthen it and improve its performance. But it would be better if it has more technical support options in the future.