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May.14, 2010 in Computers

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Social networks is being enjoyed every day on the Internet by many people all over the world. Those are big websites where you can meet new friends besides keeping in touch with them and sharing photos, blogs, messages and a lot more. Social Networking websites such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter dominate the lives of many Internet users today. It is an ever-growing industry with a fast-growing user base of millions and millions of users. Because of such popularity, all those sites are being used by cybercriminals. Those bad people will try many ways to spread viruses, steal people’s personal infos and to do online crime. This is due to the fact that users generally trust social networking websites a hundred percent.

People using any of those social website should take extra measure to protect themselves and their PC from any potential problems that might emerge from those websites. Even if there are generic principles that can apply, it is widely known that professional antivirus software can monitor for malicious software while the PC user continues to work, offering an immunity that you would otherwise not have.

Even if the above mentioned methods are professional and reliable, manual protection methods are also required since social networking can proof to be a high risk factor for most PC platforms. The manual method can be resumes in the following lines:

? Carefully consider what information you are publishing online – Anything like pictures or videos or personal infos that might compromise you after should not be published. You should neither publish contents like photos or videos that can damage your personal image.

? Be prudent about all your new online friends – Always verify that people you are connected to on social networking sites are people that you would associate with in real life. Do not add up friends just for the sake of having as many as possible. Some of those people could either be hackers or even psychopathic stalkers. You want to stay away from those people.

? Not everyone on the social network should be able to see your infos – There are features on social networking websites that allow friends of friends to view your information unless you specify otherwise. Do not allow this, set your profile information so that it is not shown to anyone other than your friends.

? Never reply or even obey any instructions coming from unverified messages – Cyber criminals will send messages with some spyware as attachments. You might believe those messages are coming from the development team on your social network, while in fact they are not. If that message is asking you to download and to install some programs: don’t trust it at first. You will find out that this is some attempt by those hackers to infect your computer with some virus.
? Never do online posts on your profile related to your vacations. If not, potential criminals might target your house knowing you will be outside town.

To have a great and safe online social networking experience, you should do the previous steps as part of your online routine. They will help the social networks to stop those cyber criminals. You will help lots of people and make yours and others online experience a great thing.