Make sure your security software provides anti-virus, anti-phishing, safe browsing, a Host-based Intrusion Preventions System (HIPS), and firewall capabilities.
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The anti-phishing initiative comes at the end of a week in which the personal details of almost 10% of China's 485 million web users were stolen.
The idea: As soon as a phishing site's domain name is identified by an accredited anti-phishing group, disconnect it from the directory--effectively sending it into cyberspace exile.
The 10 biggest search engines in China have signed up to the anti-phishing scheme to ensure that users looking for bank websites go to the right place.
Weeks says that for the sake of familiarity, IE7 will look the same, but new features include tab browsing, anti-phishing measures, increased security and improved printing capabilities.
The US Department of State has deployed Anti-Phishing Phil worldwide.
The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG), a consortium of cybersecurity firms and Web businesses, is pushing a new initiative to streamline the process of permanently deleting fraud sites from the Web.
There's an interesting explanation of the origin of the term "phishing" at the Web site for the Anti-Phishing Working Group and it seems to have nothing to do with hippies.
Verisign, for instance, which administers the Web's millions of .com and .net sites, has declined to comment on the APWG initiative even though it is a member of APWG and has long supported the group's anti-phishing advocacy work.
This year saw the widespread adoption of a tactic for hiding malware delivery sites known as "fast flux, " says Laura Mather, a researcher at the Anti-Phishing Working Group committee and a senior scientist with digital brand protection firm MarkMonitor.
Instead of contacting the Internet service provider or Web host running a site, anti-phishing groups and the more than 40 companies impersonated by the group had to contact the domain registrar in each case to have the domains shut down.
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The US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) has told computer users to be wary of potential e-mail scams, as well as fake anti-virus and phishing attacks regarding the Japan earthquake and the tsunami disasters.
Also, instead of leaving your computer exposed to Japan phishing attacks, install a spam filter, firewall, and antivirus or anti-spyware programs and keep them updated.
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