• Q: Are You Really Vulnerable Online?
• A: Are Make Money Fast Emails Common?

So how do you protect yourself online?

The sad fact of life online is that people from the Dark Side do exist who will try to rip you off badly. You can receive computer viruses in your email, disguised as messages from your friends...your computer could be hacked and used to attack other sites without your knowledge...you could be compelled to give over your password to your personal checking and computer accounts as well! This page will reveal to you some of the resources you can use to protect yourself online.

First of all visit Steve Gibson's Shields Up. A wonderful resource, it will let you test the security of your computer's ports and visibility on the Internet. By all means, take this test.

Next, go download Zonealarm. A free personal firewall, it will help mask your computer online.

Want to learn all about protecting yourself from computer viruses? Software to do so includes the Norton AntiVirus suite of products or Mcafee.

Want to get all the facts about virus hoaxes? Snopes.com has a page about computer warnings and other rumors debunked....vMyths.com is another site too.

Often you can figure out how to take care of viruses if your computer is infected. Poke around:

• Symantec Security Response
• Cert Computer Virus Resources
• ZDNET Anti-Vius Resources

Where else can you go for resources about computer security?

• About.com's Netsecurity
• O'Reilly Security Center
• Security Focus

And what about your passwords? Computer sites will NEVER send you email asking for your password. After all, they already have them stored! You can read more about that at

• USAToday
• Inside AOL
• Scambusters Email Scams

I hope you have found the following to be beneficial!

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