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To protect your privacy:
Use a cookie manager to remove existing cookies and block subsequent ones.
Get a copy of your credit report from the three national credit reporting agencies (Equifax, Experian, and Trans Union) to see who’s been checking your credit.
Always make sure you’re submitting sensitive information-particularly credit card info-via a secure server.
Never reveal your real name in chat rooms or newsgroups. Similarly, avoid using names from which your name can be easily discerned.
At home, use firewall software and log your system off when it's not in use.
Read the privacy statements of the sites you visit, and contact the companies if something isn't clear. Also, check for a privacy seal from such organizations as BBBonLine and
TrustE.
If you ever send sensitive information via e-mail, make sure you're using encryption.
Be suspicion of giving out your Social Security number. It is rarely necessary for online transactions.
Create a junk mail account to keep your real e-mail spam-free, and try your ISP’s spam filter to weed out the spam you’re already receiving.
Resist the urge; never reply to spam!
Be especially wary of sites offering prizes in exchange for personal info. Giving out private information isn’t worth what you'll get in return.
Remove yourself from lists. You can request that the credit agencies don't share your data, and inform marketers that you don’t want to receive marketing calls or e-mail.
It’s legal to give a fake name, phone number, and address-but don't use your neighbor's. Try something along the lines of 123 Main Street, Anywhere, PA 00101.
Surf anonymously with one of the products in this story. Covering your tracks in this way is the only way to ensure that no one is watching where you browse.
Don’t reveal your information inadvertently; remove your personal information from your Web browser's configuration. And don't use your e-mail address when connecting to FTP servers.
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spam
To post irrelevant or inappropriate messages to one or more Usenet
newsgroups, mailing lists, or other messaging system in deliberate or
accidental violation of netiquette.
troll
An electronic mail message, Usenet posting or other (electronic)
communication which is intentionally incorrect, but not overtly
controversial, or the act of sending such a message. Trolling aims to
elicit an emotional reaction from those with a hair-trigger on the reply
key. A really subtle troll makes some people lose their minds.
flame bait
A Usenet posting or other message intended to trigger a flame war,
or one that invites flames in reply.
flame
To rant, to speak or write incessantly and/or rabidly on some relatively
uninteresting subject or with a patently ridiculous attitude or with
hostility towards a particular person or group of people. "Flame" is
used as a verb ("Don't flame me for this, but..."), a flame is a single
flaming message, and "flamage" the content.
netiquette
The conventions of politeness recognized on Usenet and in mailing lists,
such as not posting to inappropriate groups and refraining from
commercial advertising outside the biz groups.
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While advertising\sponsoring is
a common way to publish and promote a product for free, some software
advertising systems do more then just showing static banners, they make
secretly use of your internet connection to, for example, retrieve new
banner ads from a third parties server or send various information about
you. This information is collected and sold to third parties.
Because of the unobviously, secretly behavior of these systems, they are
also called advertising Trojans.
Most of these systems are installed with a (often popular) host application,
which may or may not work without the snoopware components installed. Some
attach themselves to your browser, some are completely invisible.
Get rid of spyware now!
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