How to know a scam if you see one

Generally, a scam has the following characteristics. It makes the promise to give you lots of money, lots of prizes or a job.

It also asks you for donations. It also proposes business deals that are lucrative. It also asks that you provide personal and very sensitive info. It also asks that you follow a specific link to a particular website and log in to a particular account.

Educating yourself is an essential contribution against being vulnerable to fraud as well as any virus or security threat.

The worm

Just this year, a worm that has the ability to e-mail itself in massive amounts target users of Yahoo Mail by arriving in inboxes with a subject that says: New site, along with it an attached forwarded message.

The worm was written using JavaScript and allows embedded scripts written in html to automatically run in the browsers of users.

Basically what this worm does is fool unknowing e-mail recipients to believe that they have received an online card and to click on a particular web link to access it.

However, once clicked, a Trojan is immediately downloaded to the user's computer and is disguised as am html file thus innocently appearing as a web site page.

Receiving any e-mail that is similar to this should not let you be fooled. As much as possible, do not in any way follow these links in an e-mail message especially if you are not sure that it would lead you to a greeting card web site.

As much as possible, check the site's true destination prior to clicking it. It would help if you course your mouse over the link and thru doing so immediately see the file extension.

All in all, staying informed is one way to harness power thru knowledge of current trends and updates on potential security and online threats.

This allows ample time for anyone to prepare their system and thereby prevent unnecessary crashes and problems brought about by malicious and threatening viruses, worms or scams.

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