Privacy, Security & Virus Information

Yahoo mail becoming a hacker favourite

While they were one of the first web browsers as well as providing the first e-mail services, in recent years Yahoo have fallen way behind such leading internet presences as Yahoo, Facebook and even Internet Explorer as far as web popularity? That's why it may be surprising to discover that in recent weeks this veteran of the internet has become a very major target for computer hackers and spammers, who have discovered some crack in their internet armour and taken full advantage of it.

Today with such a wide variety of threats to computers from hackers, there seems to be no end to the places that they want to attack, and the levels of sophistication that the hackers have seemed to achieve. It wasn't that long ago that building a virus was regarded as a simple prank by a few programmers with too much time on their hands. Nowadays the dark side of the computer software industry has seen a lot of talented software engineers choose a life of cyber crime instead of using their talents for the good of the computer industry. Today it is Yahoo under attack, tomorrow it may be Facebook, Adobe or Microsoft that have left the back door open sufficiently wide to let the hackers in to plant their trojan horses and worms.

These day with the home computer becoming increasingly more a central feature in our lives, and from where we manage our finances, make significant purchases and spend a lot of our leisure time, there is a very grave danger of a person's financial details being exposed to hackers, who will rapidly use them to extract as much profit as they can as quickly as they can.

With identity theft on the increase again, with all of the damage that it can cause, any investment in an anti-virus program will be money very well spent. It doesn't matter where the virus comes from, once it has succeeded in braking through your computer's defensive shield, you will be at its mercy, until you discover its presence and drive it out.

For those reasons it is terribly important to ensure that if your computer is connected to the internet then a powerful, professional anti-virus program has been installed. It has long since been an impossible task for a computer owner to stand alone and unprotected against the constant onslaught of viruses and spam ware that bombard the internet around the clock.

 

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