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No Sales Tax Sale!!
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As you may know our California Sales Tax has gone up by 1% this month. Left Brain Techs for the month of April, 2009 is having a "NO SALES TAX" sale on all equipment.
For the LBT clients that are out of state , we will extend the "No Sales Tax" sale to your location!
Hurry and save! Offer Expires April 30th at Midnight!
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Viruses and Phishing Scams.
MS updates and common sense is your best defense. |
Viruses and Phishing scams, what is the difference?
Viruses are created to manipulate the user's computer in some way. Either to do something destructive or to get information from the computer and upload it to another computer. 5 years ago, viruses were the main way to get information from unsuspecting end users, but viruses in the end were not effective in getting what they wanted. Viruses have shifted from a poorly written piece of code written that would crash your computer to a multitude of phishing schemes that have become very clever.
Phishing scams have become the primary way to part you from your information. The phishing scam is to get information that the end user would not normally give up. Bank account numbers, credit card info, account logins, passwords, etc... The scam will create a fake website that looks just like the real site. It can be very difficult to tell the difference. Although, one way to protect yourself from the scams is to make sure that you are one the latest version of Internet Explorer. IE 7.0 has a build in phishing filter. If you have IE 7 make sure that the filter is enabled - tools/phishing filter/turn on automatic website checking. If you get an e-mail and are concerned that e-mail is not real do NOT click the link in the e-mail or call the number in the e-mail. Close the e-mail and call customer service using the phone number on a paper statement that you have from the company.
The bottom line is that your have to use common sense. Virus protection will NOT help you against a phishing scam. If you think an e-mail maybe a fake one don't click on it, delete it.
Read more about phishing scams on the Federal Trade Commissions website:
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/alerts/alt127.shtm
If you would have a question about any e-mails you can always forward them to the LBT staff and we will reseach it for you! Send to [email protected]...
Have a great day -
Jon Davis - President
Left Brain Techs, Inc. |
