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2. Identify legitimate AOL websites, requests, and communications

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   • Fake email addresses - Malicious actors sometimes send from email addresses made to look like an official email address but in fact is missing a letter(s), misspelled, replaces a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. “O” and “0”), or originates from free email services that would not be used for official communications.

3. Blacklist (computing) - Wikipedia

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   Screenshot of a website blocking the creation of content which matches a regular expression term on its blacklist. In computing, a blacklist, disallowlist, blocklist, or denylist is a basic access control mechanism that allows through all elements (email addresses, users, passwords, URLs, IP addresses, domain names, file hashes, etc.), except those explicitly mentioned.

4. DNS blocking - Wikipedia

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   Domain Name System blocking, or DNS blocking / filtering, is a strategy for making it difficult for users to locate specific domains or websites on the Internet. It was first introduced in 1997 as a means to block spam email from known malicious IP addresses .

5. TCP reset attack - Wikipedia

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   This tampering technique can be used by a firewall or abused by a malicious attacker to interrupt Internet connections. The Great Firewall of China and Iranian Internet censors are known to use TCP reset attacks to interfere with and block connections as a major method to carry out Internet censorship. [1]

6. Inappropriate advertising on AOL

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   Adjust your browser's security settings to provide at least “medium” levels of security. This is usually the default setting; if the level of security is lowered, your computer could be open to additional risk. Do not permit the installation of ActiveX controls that you haven't requested. Solutions

7. Using McAfee: Firewalls - AOL Help

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   Standard is the default and recommended security level. When you set the firewall's security level to Standard, Firewall monitors inbound and outbound connections and alerts when new programs attempt Internet access. Blocked and added programs appear on the Program Permissions pane. To set the firewall's security level to Standard: 1.

8. Norton Safe Web - Wikipedia

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   A free version of the software, Safe Web Lite, is available free of charge. The primary difference between the version of Safe Web bundled with Norton Internet Security and Norton 360 and Safe Web Lite is that Safe Web Lite does not block malicious websites. However, Norton AntiVirus updates it with Norton SafeWeb Statics when Norton SafeWeb ...

9. Server-side request forgery - Wikipedia

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   Server-side request forgery (SSRF) is a type of computer security exploit where an attacker abuses the functionality of a server causing it to access or manipulate information in the realm of that server that would otherwise not be directly accessible to the attacker.