Online Security: How to keep your e-gold and other accounts safe?

Yes , if you want to keep your e-gold and other money safe , I think you must have a good Firewall first . Sencond is setting up long password . such as "m1o5r7e8i6n2f9o4" .

Well amazingly you can protect yourself for free! Here are 3 good antivirus programs just get 1 - AVG antivirus, Avast antivirus, and there's a program called antivir. Here are some good free firewalls - ZoneAlarm and Kerio (pick just 1) Here are some adware, spyware, and malware removers - Adaware, spybot, and spyware blaster. Get all 3 of these. Use spybot first, adaware 2nd, and then protect yourself with spyware blaster. If you need more help don't hesitate to Send me a friend request and you can message me;)

Thanks - that was a lot of good advice. I am using Panda Platinum and Ewido, these both should work well together. Another thing, I never keep much money in my e-gold account, they are working in different programs. When I start to earn more, I hope to find a card I can use in any ATM to take out the money very quickly. Any suggestions on a good card I could use safely??

Yes there is a ton of malicious activity happenning. I try to keep everything up-to-date and change my passwords frequently. Also, a good thing is to have a long password that incorporates numbers and signs. Works for me atleast! Interesting story about phishing I would like to share. It just happened to my friend a few weeks ago. They received an email to update their norton anti-virus subscription. They followed the link, inputted their credit card information to buy another year of Norton...and wham...no subscirption and the credit card info was stolen. So, even though the norton linked website looked exactly like the norton website..it was not legit. It was a copied version created by the phisher. My only concern is, how do we know were not being directed to the wrong website when we log into our accounts?

Thanks for this information.I will like to add as one must change his e-gold and paypal passwords frequently to reduce the chances of getting robbed.Also the password should be some what difficult.Alsso after closing the e-gold or paypal account one must clean the history and cookies if any.

Thanks for this one, I'll try to keep this in mind. Can you recommend any goods ones for all three,though?

I have all of those programs on my computer for security but there is no complete safeproof system since hackers are always finding ways to break through something and viruss and worms are becoming more advanced these days. There are a lot more things to worry about now than there used to be like phishing and other scams.

only very few money In my EG account, So they are very safe:)

its just unfortunate that there are thieves everywhere well i will have to protect my account and is there anywere we can download those stuffs free??

i followed an advice from a fellow user to use firefox instead of internet explorer and to use the SRK feature when typing the passphrase. i have read on the internet that egold is one of the most hacked sites ever and protecting your hard earned e-gold funds is a must.

linux is a system safer than windowns,and it's free ,you can download it from many sites ,you can try it!

Yes, nowadays online security has become very important. So I already have all the three things you have mentioned neecessary for online security.

okay, i already have an antivirus, it's called active virus shield, is it any good? Well, i do see it detects a lot of trojans, but some it cannot disinfect so it deletes the file, also i'm downloading zonealarm right now, and i'm also searching for spybot. So am i all set now?

I am always very cautious with my 3 e-gold accounts, and check my computer later, and try to install more anti trojan programs. Yes, members have to read this discussion carefully, its on security!

Yes you are forgetting the main thing There are fraudulant emails Never enter your passwords in emails that directly ask for your information and passwords there has been many such cases of "Phising" with egold and paypal

i think there accounts are not totally but much more safe. And we don't have to worry about it. E gold and Paypal are safest so don't worry. Just keep your password changing. You take care and have a nice day.

thats great whatever we are going to do the hackers would tr to brake it. so the better way is change the password everytime you use your account and type exactly the web address since if a single letter goes wrong then phishing starts

just keep ur windows or other operating system uptodate, ur firewall running & ur anti virus pack running and upto date & ofcourse i would suggest not to rely too much on electronics when it comes to secret keeping

I think that we should aways clean up our cookie when login out you account!

I don't know it is correct or not. I always use proxy when I login my e-gold accounts. and I've never been stolen!