Labh Lakshmi

The practice of using fraudulent e-mails and copies of legitimate websites to extract financial data from computer users for criminal purposes is called Phishing

Photo showing phishing email

Phishing is an e-mail fraud method in which the perpetrator sends out legitimate-looking email in an attempt to gather personal and financial information from recipients. The messages appear to come from well known and trustworthy Web sites. Web sites that are frequently spoofed by phishers include PayPal, eBay, MSN, Yahoo, BestBuy, and America Online and many Banking sites. Like the fishing expedition it’s named Phishing and it is a speculative venture: the phisher puts the lure hoping to fool at least a few of the prey that encounter the bait.

What problem does RSS solve?

Most people are interested in many Web sites whose content changes on an unpredictable schedule. Examples of such Web sites are news sites, community and religious organization information pages, product information pages, medical Web sites, and weblog s. Repeatedly checking each Web site to see if there is any new content can be very tedious.

E-mail notification of changes was an early solution to this problem. Unfortunately, when you receive e-mail notifications from multiple Web sites they are usually disorganized and can get overwhelming, and are often mistaken for spam.

Computer worm?

A computer worm is a program which copies itself across a network.

A computer worm differs from a computer virus in that a computer worm can run itself. A virus needs a host program to run, and the virus code runs as part of the host program. A computer worm can spread without a host program,

What is a Computer Virus?

Computer viruses are everywhere. Their very names give computer users a scare — Klez, Melissa, W32, Michelangelo.

With the use of the Internet and endless communication between computers, viruses are spreading faster than ever. The only way to prevent their growth is through public awareness of safe computing.

Computing

Bad things can happen to good data. Hard drives can crash. Memory cards can be formatted accidentally. CDs or DVDs on which important files are stored can become scratched and unreadable. But there are steps you can take to try to retrieve damaged data.

Checking of e-mail has become a dangerous business. The number and types of e-mail borne threats that can cause harm to computer or privacy are growing.

Sometimes the actual danger imposed by these threats can be over hyped, but is required to know what constitutes a dangerous e-mail message and how to respond to the threat.

Whenever a new program is installed on a PC with Windows OS (operating system) , it asks to restart the computer for completion of the setup. Restarting a Windows PC is not only a dreaded task but the time Windows takes is really boring.

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World Wide Web (or simply Web for short) is a term frequently used when referring to “The Internet”, www has two major meanings:

वेबसाइट पर आने वालों की जानकारी

जब आप किसी साइट पर आते हैं और पन्ने पढ़ते हैं तो ये पन्ने और एक कुकी आपके कंप्यूटर पर डाउनलोड हो जाता है इस प्रक्रिया का इस्तेमाल ज़्यादातर वेबसाइट पर होता है और इसका उद्देश्य ये जानना है कि वेबसाइट इस्तेमाल करनेवाला व्यक्ति क्या वहाँ पहले भी आया है. जब आप दूसरी बार या अगली बार साइट पर आते हैं तो कुकी आपका नाम याद रखता है.

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चाहे कोई भी प्रोग्राम हो,
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