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- Use a gender-neutral username/email address.
- Use a free email account such as Hotmail or Yahoo for newsgroups/mailing lists, chatrooms, IMs, emails from strangers, message boards, filling out forms and other online activities.
- Don't give your primary email address to anyone you do not know or trust (see above).
- Don't provide your credit card number or other information as proof of age to access or subscribe to a website you aren't familiar with.
- Before "speaking" or posting messages on newsgroups, mailing lists and chatrooms be familiar with the content and demographic.
- Don't be so trusting online - don't reveal personal things about yourself until you really and truly sure that you know the other person.
- Your first instinct may be to defend yourself - DON'T - this is how most online harassment situations begin.
- If it looks too good to be true - it probably is.
Reference: http://www.haltabuse.org/
Virus Detection and Prevention Tips
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"Spyware comes in various forms, but basically it is a program or piece of information on your computer that sends data about you or your computer habits to someone else on the Internet. Spyware can also be a program that places unwanted ads on your computer. Cookies can be considered spyware. They are little piece of information placed in your web browser to track your web habits. This is useful sometimes as a web site can see you have visited it before and let you on without a registration process. Cookies are also used to keep track of your progress through a web store. They are also used to customize website ads to your likes and dislikes."
Reference: http://www.cyberwalker.net/
Why is Spyware Bad?
"For one it can hog precious system resources like memory and hard disk space. It can also compromise your privacy, providing outsiders with information about your computer habits. If a spyware program installs a keylogger it can capture your keystrokes and send it to a third party. This can potentially expose your user IDs and passwords to thieves Some spyware are trojans which allows someone to log into your computer remotely and use it for their own purposes like sending spam or launching malicious attacks on other computers on the Internet, making it look like you are at fault."
Reference: http://www.cyberwalker.net/
How Can I Prevent Spyware?
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