A Wetpaint Site | TV Fandex 100

Allcomputertricks™® -Sanjiv

How to not get hacked

Share This with your friends!

"A Good Hacker Is Never Hacked ": Sanjiv

Protect Urself !

Follow These Simple Guidelines and u are done!

1. Download zone alarm...it updates automatically..and it hides your ip address too(when applicable)

2. Firstly Stop using Internet Explorer and use Opera or mozilla firefox, it's more secure, plain and simple. If u use internet explorer u will get many trojans and viruses (am not comparing)

3. Get Spybot Search and Destroy or Spyware Doctor (adware)and immediately update it.

4. Get Adaware SE and immediately update it.
(Use both as a 1-2 punch on infected client computers and between the two there's not much they won't kill)

5. Update your anti virus almost everyday!

6. Boot into safe mode and run all three scans...

7. While the scans are going check your registry (Click start --> Run and type regedit to get intot he registry) and look in HKEY_CurrentUser/software/microsoft/windows/currentversion/run & HKEY_Local_Machine/software/microsoft/windows/currentversion/run. Verify that all programs listed are legitimate and wanted.

8. If or when your antivirus scan comes across anything, search for that file name in your registry and delete it.

9. Use explorer to go to the windows/system32 folder and sort by date. If you haven't already done so, make sure you can see the entire file names. click Tools --> Folder Options and unclick the box labeled "Hide extensions for known file types" and under Hidden files and folders click "Show hidden files and folders." However, make sure you choose "Hide protected operating system files" so you don't accidentally remove anything that would cripple your computer.. You are looking for recent files with names ending with .exe and .dll that look suspicious. Major culprits will have gibberish names such as alkjdlkjfa.exe.

10. Once you can get clean scans in safe mode, reboot in normal mode and scan all over again. If you can't get a clean scan in regular mode then you have something more persistant that could take more research.

11. Make sure your firewall doesn't have strange exceptions.

12. If you suspect anything that is going wrong with your computer is the action of a stalker, on a more secure system change all your passwords.

13. If your system has been specifically targeted and hacked you can never be 100% sure that your system is no longer compromised so start with 11, make backups of personal files on the infected system and format and re-install Windows.

14. Never click on any link no matter it is given by your best friend or whoever! Because they could give u a link, and when u click on that your computer may be hacked or filled with viruses!

15. Never login in any untrusted site, like fake login pages. Always check the link before u login in any site. Some people make their own fake pages not necessary orkut, yahoo etc! They may make their own fake page and tell u to register in it. And when u register your password will be stolen!!! So its better that u always change and update your passwords!

16. Never enter or give your password to anyone. For example some body may tell u to mail to a server( eg. passwordretrieve@yahoo.com. And they will tell u to follow some steps like:

Enter Victim's email id
Your email id
your password
And they will give u some Javascript to paste in the mail

U may be fooled by anyone. Its very easy to do this shit. So never involve in this scam!

Also Read--Phishing article

Credit: Allcomputertricks( my site)

Good luck!
Read it carefully. It will be very helpful

Please do contribute if u know More !

Sanjiv

sanjivnidamboor	Latest page update: made by sanjivnidamboor , Oct 19 2007, 6:26 AM EDT (about this update About This Update Edited by sanjivnidamboor 13 words added 7 words deleted 1 image added view changes - complete history)
	Keyword tags: how to not get hacked More Info: links to this page