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yahoo hacking
I play yahoo pool. One of the leagues is always threatening to hack the league I'm in and ruin everyones accounts including hacking our computers . Is there anyway I can protect myself from this, or stop this all together?
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Spybot:
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Ad-aware Standard Edition is THE award winning, free*, multicomponent adware detection and removal utility:
http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/
SpyFerret detects & removes spyware
http://www.onlinepcfix.com/spyware/spyware.htm
Automatic check of your browser for parasites, adware and spyware
http://www.doxdesk.com/parasite/
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http://kb.trendmicro.com/solutions/solutionDetail.asp?solutionId=4317
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http://www.trendmicro.com/en/products/desktop/pc-cillin/evaluate/overview.htm
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/housecall/start_corp.asp
Some viruses can't be removed by housecall. If so, use the free Trend Micro system cleaner:
http://www.trendmicro.com/download/tsc.asp
If you get's an ActiveX error, when loading the HouseCall web page:
http://kb.trendmicro.com/solutions/solutionDetail.asp?solutionId=4317
If you want to secure your one computer in the future, consider to purchase PC-cillin with builtin firewall:
http://www.trendmicro.com/en/products/desktop/pc-cillin/evaluate/overview.htm
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Download the free version of Sygate personal firewall
http://smb.sygate.com/support/documents/spf/default.htm
http://smb.sygate.com/download/download.php?pid=spf
Download the free version of ZoneAlarm firewall
http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company/zap_za_grid.jsp?lid=ho_za
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http://www.firewallguide.com/software.htm
Firewall Product Selector - Choose yourself which one to compare
http://www.spirit.com/cgi-new/report.pl?dbase=fw&function=view
The Internet Connection Firewall Can Prevent Browsing and File Sharing
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;298804
Many Regards
Jorgen Malmgren
IT-Supervisor
Denmark
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