What’s phishing?

The term phishing is from the word ‘fishing’ because fishers in the internet throws the fishing rode to the other end to hook information just like what the fishers in real life do, throwing the fishing rode to hook up fish. Phishing has started around the late 1980s and it is very hard to avoid. The main purpose of phishing is to collect personal information from others computer system hoping to hook a useful information that will help the ‘phisher’ in many ways. Phishers might look for usernames, passwords o websites, credcit card information, banking details and many other personal information that would cause you great trouble if any other people knows. As i mentioned already, it is pretty difficult to avoid phishing but if you give a bit of attention of what you do on internet, you might be able to avoid, prevent from being ‘phished’

How do you prevent having your information “hooked”?

- Make sure you communicate your personal information only through secure websites that have icons or have “https” in the address bar.\

- If you receive an email that you don’t know where it’s from, don’t click on any links and never answer any questions that asks for your personal information. Also, if you recieve an email that questions your financial information such as banking details, do not respond.

- Have a software that will protect your computer.

Information from: http://www.antivirusware.com/

Page link: http://www.antivirusware.com/articles/what-is-phishing.htm

What are computer worms?

Computer worms are reproducing programs that runs without a host programthat travels across network connections. Computer worms differs from computer viruses by the fact that they can run itself, independently without a hosting program.

How do we get infected?

We can get infected by clicking on any form of attachment or link that links to an infected website.

Types of Computer Worms:

* Email worms

Spreads infected attachments or links by emails

* Instant Messaging Womrs

Sends infected websites to everyone on a certain person’s contact list.

* Internet Womrs

Uses local operating system service to scan all available network resources.

* IRC Worms

Sends infected files or links to infected websites

* File-sharing Networks Worms

Duplicates itself and places itself into a shared folder.

How can we get rid of them?

I really don’t know how you get rid of the computer worms from your hard drive, but you can protect your computer from worms before you get them.

These are the following ways how you can protect your computer from worms:

- You can install new patches provided by operating system and applicationg vendo

- Or simply, don’t run Microsoft software or don’t click on links that you received from an unknown person.

Information from: http://www.virusall.com/worms.shtml

actual site: http://www.virusall.com/

What are viruses?

Viruses small software programs which

purpose is to spread from a computer to another and to interfere the computer from operating properly. Viruses corrupt or delete data on computers or erase everything on a hard disk. It is usually spread by attachments in emails, IMs (instant messages) or downloads on Internet.

How do we get infected?

You might get affected by viruses by downloading music or movies, opening e-mail attachment from an anonymous user, from Instant Messaging such as msn, skype and etc. That is why you never open attachments that you are not expecting or if it’s from a person that you never heard of or simply don’t know.

Symptoms:

If you have these following events happening to you and your computer, there are high possibilities that your computer is infected by viruses so you might think of getting help from internet, or a professioner

Your computer happens to:

-run slower than usual

- stop responding or locks up frequently or restarts automatically

- crash or the computer applications do not operate correctly

- be inaccessible on disks or disk drives

- cannot print items correctly or weird error messages pop out frequently

- The attachments that you opened recently has a double extension such as a .jpg, .vbs, .gif or .exe.

- The antivirus doesn’t operate or is impossible to restart

How can you get rid of them?

Install anti-virus software on the computer

Or get help from a professional virus killer

Information from: http://support.microsoft.com/

http://www.microsoft.com/protect/computer/basics/virus.mspx

Page name: What is a computer virus?:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/129972

Q: What is a Trojan horse?

A: Trojan horse is a typical virus that breaks the security of programs. Trojan horse might erase the data your disk and a stranger might be able to control your disk. It also ruins the file allocation table on the hard disk. The name is from the ‘Greek mythology’ (not sure if the name is right) when The Greek soldiers were attacking Troy with the Torjan Horse, faking to be a present but turning out to be enemies later.

Q: How do we get infected?

A: We often get infected by downloading music files on any anonymous sites. In windows, programs containing Trojan horse have file extension like “exe”, “vbs”, “com”, “bat”, etc. Trojan horses can be spread by ANYTHING including Instant Messaging, Game sites, emails and more.

Q: How can we get rid of them?

There are 4 typical ways how you can get rid of Trojan horses, but they’re not perfect.

1. Clean Re-installation

2. Anti-Virus Software

3. Anti-Trojan Programs: “These programs are the most effective against trojan horse attacks, because they specialize in trojans instead of general viruses.” ( quote from http://www.irchelp.org/ ) ‘The Cleaner’ is a very popular and effective site as Anti-Trojan Programs.

4. IRC Help Channels

Information from http://www.irchelp.org/ written by Joseph Lo aka Jolo
Page name: Trojan horse attack: http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/security/trojan.htm/

This is Pizza Inn. It’s located in My khanh (I think) and this is where we, my family, order pizza.

- Just, ignore the guy with the peace sign.

This is Hint, one of the most well known beauty salon in Phu My Hung.

The picture is tilted to one side, but hope it doesn’t matter.

*sPecIaL tHanKs tO jAeyeOn ( http://ssisjae.edublogs.org ), and her cAmeRa*

I THOUGHT DOGPILE WAS THE ONLY ONE WITH ADVANTAED SEARCH!!

The activity taught me how to use many tools that I didn’t know it exists, or didn’t know how to use.

We also learned how to use advantaged search effectively to get better results.

The activity was cool and helpful, it’s going to save alot of my time while working on researching projects by not showing irrelevant information but only the needed ones.

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I made a poem/ riddle about this element, but I turned it in to another teacher and I don’t have it now.

For now, I will post the symbol I made.

Description:

Mercury is a dangerous element that has a silvery white color.

It’s danger increases at higher temperatures.

It is used in thermometers, batteries and to separate gold from it’s ore, usually from the cinnabar ore.

Mercury was known to the ancient Chinese and Hindus before 2000 BC and the discoverer is unknown.

Mercury is also known as quicksilver.

-The End…. muhahaha

There are a lot of houses with great ponds like this in Vietnam.

The pond is located in the middle of the mini garden inside the house and there are few fishes.

I don’t know the exact location of the house but I’m pretty sure it’s somewhere near town.