Dark side of money earning online
By iDivision
@iDivision (1412)
Latvia
October 21, 2010 2:45am CST
Its simple - we visiting much new websites, registrating by giving them our personal information, clicking on things and someone maybe even download software offered by those websites. Its risky of course and everyone should understand that and take that risk on his own.
I had been in situation when i was earning on some lets say suspicious websites from my pc at work. So result was that my work PC started act weird - it gone slower and slower day by day. I decided to make full system scan on viruses and spyware programs in Windows XP safe mode. I was surprised to see that there is 2 active trojans and much more suspicious stuff working from my PC!
So please be very, very careful! Your PC must have strong firewall and antivirus and antispyware tools with realtime protection already enabled when you decide to go ear money online and start to visit any such website. Also make full system scans regulary and asap if you feel that your PC gets too slow.
Money earning online is cool, but its us who must think of our own security first!
3 responses
@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
21 Oct 10
Pretty much every earning site I've been on, I've known at least one person who got clobbered by some kind of a virus. For a long time I used Firefox, and their AdBlock and NoScript add ons. That has protected me pretty well. I started using Chrome because of Birejji, but my home computer got clobbered recently, so maybe I'll go back to Firefox.
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@iDivision (1412)
• Latvia
21 Oct 10
This maybe will sound as propaganda from me as Chrome fan, but chrome adblock have the same blacklists as firefox extension, so it will not change anything if you will start use firefox instead of chrome i think :)
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@puccagirl (7294)
• Israel
21 Oct 10
I have never experienced this, thankfully, but it does indeed make sense! So thanks for the tip, I am sure a lot of people don't even think about this!
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@iDivision (1412)
• Latvia
22 Oct 10
Now many web browsers have built in or through extensions and addons possibility to warn user to not visit website if it contains any suspicious programs, viruses, spyware.
