What is Cybercrime? Over the last 18 months, an ominous change has swept across the Internet. The tools driving the new attacks and fueling the blackmarket are crimeware - bots, Trojan horses, and spyware. Cybercrime Stories   Are you like Mike B? Never had a virus Shop in store, not online Use popular search engines Threats today have become more complicated. They tend to use multiple vectors to spread, thus increasing their chances of infection. Once on the system, these threats tend to show little to no symptoms so they can survive undetected.
	How They Attack Phishing
Phishing is essentially an online con game and phishers are nothing more than tech-savvy con artists and identity thieves. They use SPAM, malicious Web sites, and messages in email and instant messages to trick people into divulging sensitive information, such as bank and credit card account How Do You Know Requests for confidential information via email or Instant Message are not legitimate Phishing attacks may use scare tactics to entice a response Fraudulent messages are often not personalized and can contain malicious links Phishing attacks may consist of a group of emails that share similar properties like details in the header and footer Phishing attacks re-direct victims to a bogus Web site where malicious code is downloaded and used to collect sensitive information
	How They Attack Spyware
Spyware can be downloaded from Web sites, email messages, instant messengers and from direct file-sharing connections. Additionally, a user may unknowingly receive spyware by accepting an End User License Agreement from a software program How Do You Know Spyware frequently attempts to remain unnoticed, either by actively hiding or by simply not making its presence on a system known to the user. What To Do Use SpyCleaner Platinum to proactively protect from spyware and other security risks Configure the firewall in SpyCleaner Platinum to block unsolicited requests for outbound communication Do not accept or open suspicious error dialogs from within the browser Spyware may come as part of a "free deal" offer - Do not accept free deals Always read carefully the End User License agreement at Install time and cancel if other “programs” are being installed as part of the desired program Keep software and security patches up to date