How to protect your accounts

You all must know this as your gmail,twitter,facebook,orkut accounts are in the brink of hacking

Today i will teach you how to protect your accounts.That means to prevent your accounts from being hacked.  

To know this you must know how hackers hack you .I will tell you about it first

the methods used are

• PHISHING

Phishing is a method commonly used by hackers.They create a fake login page.  Fake login pages will be similar to login pages of sites but when you enter username and password it will get stored in the log file of the hacker.

eg: www.okrut.com(look the spelling is different) www.facebok.com(spelling is different)

You can prevent this by many meathod 

• First one is to look the address in the address bar before you enter user if and password
• Next method is a little more easy as you don t want to care about looking and other things.  This method is by installing Antivirus software which have anti phishing protection Below are name of antivirus and also their download link

Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 9.0.0.736 (FULL FREE)

Bitdefender Total security 2009 full version with serial+patch

Avast AntiVirus 2009 Pro v4.8.1282 Plus + Life Time Serial

or go to this link

Next method used by hackers are installing keyloggers.keyloggers are maliculous software that will save every keystroke 

and save it in a log file and then be sent to the hackers email id whitout you be known.You may think it will be difficult to 

find the password and user id of account.But it is very easy.The username will be followed by the url and password will 

be followed by username.

How to prevent this 

Usually they are send by email as an executable file.But he icon will be of a folder or anything else.And if you open it it will 

get installed in your computer even without you be known.

It is strictly recommended that you must scan all your email attachments before you do anything.

Don't worry usually mast of the antivirus will automatically detect key loggers

Also some viruses can send your personal information,passwords etc to the hackers
Just install a good antivirus or an internet protection(comodo is good and free internet firewall)

Next is ethical hacking
By this methods hackers access your computer files you can easily prevent this by turning your firewall on
How to turn on firewall

• Go to control panel
• double click on windows firewall
• Turn on firewall and click ok

For doubts and suggestion just mail me using the contact me feature or just leave a comment I will follow up