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Update and Secure your computer • Enable your firewall. • Update your software, such as AOL Desktop Gold Software, McAfee, Adobe products and Java. • Regularly scan your computer for spyware and viruses using anti-virus software. If you don’t have a one, we recommend McAfee Internet Security Suite – Special edition from AOL.
If you think your account has been compromised, follow the steps listed below to secure it. 1. Change your password immediately. 2. Delete app passwords you don’t recognize. 3. Revert your mail settings if they were changed. 4. Ensure you have antivirus software installed and updated. 5. Check to make sure your recovery options are up-to-date. 6.
Depending on how you access your account, there can be up to 3 sections. If you see something you don't recognize, click Sign out or Remove next to it, then immediately change your password. • Recent activity - Devices or browsers that recently signed in. • Apps connected to your account - Apps you've given permission to access your info.
Security solutions that help keep your devices virus free and secure from thieves who try to steal your identity or drain your bank account.
FBI: The Zeus Fraud Scheme. In October 2010 the US FBI announced that hackers in Eastern Europe had managed to infect computers around the world using Zeus. [8] The virus was distributed in an e-mail, and when targeted individuals at businesses and municipalities opened the e-mail, the trojan software installed itself on the victimized computer, secretly capturing passwords, account numbers ...
Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) is a freeware second-opinion malware scanner that Microsoft's Windows Update downloads and runs on Windows computers each month, independent of the installed antivirus software.
The compromised machine becomes merged into a botnet.While most botnets are controlled through a central server, which if found can be taken down to destroy the botnet, the Storm Worm seeds a botnet that acts in a similar way to a peer-to-peer network, with no centralized control. [7]
If there's something unusual about your sign in or recent activity, we'll ask you to go through another verification step after you've entered the correct password. This is an important security feature that helps to protect your account from unauthorized access.