Viruses, worms and trojans waste hours of your time, as you try to protect against them and clean up after them. And how good a “cleanup” job are you really doing anyway?
• Spyware gathers information about your browsing & online habits, or even personal information such as passwords and account numbers, and sends it off to “interested parties”. • “Script kiddies” steal anything of value and trash the rest. • Identity thieves can empty your bank accounts, make purchases in your name, max out your credit cards, and capture sensitive information from your eMails and other correspondence. Identity theft is one of the fastest growing crimes, both online and off. • Spam is a massive annoyance and time waster and often conceals more insidious threats. • Keyloggers can record every keystroke you type at a keyboard, and pass that mother-lode of information on to professional criminals. • “Dumpster divers” can rat through your rubbish bins for clues to passwords, account numbers, identity information, etc. You’d be amazed how an extensive profile can be built up, bit by bit, from seemingly innocuous scraps of rubbish found in almost everyone’s trash. • If you’re
