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What is Phishing?

By: PCHF | Posted 05.9. 2009
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Phishing

Phishing is something that is becoming more and more of a problem over the years.

Phishing is where a sites are made to look like another, for example myspace or facebook, or even sites such as on-line banking.  The purpose of these sites are to steal your account details.

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What is Phishing?

By: Metal Mind | Posted 04.16. 2009
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Phishing

Online accounts like PayPal have had a great number of phishing expeditions that pretend to represent their company while attempting to gather account information.

Phishing goes beyond the simple transmission of an email or instant message. Websites that are near carbon copies of the original website are linked to the email. A victim may receive an email that states there is a problem with their account and they need to click the link and log into their account immediately

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Can I install Windows 7 on my PC?

By: The H
Posted 11.8. 2009

You’ve heard the hype, you’ve seen the TV ads and the press reports and you’re sitting there thinking oh yea, Microsoft are at it again. Vista was a disaster, there I said it. It was released too soon without software support and was therefore doomed from the start.

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