The Hackers Nightmare...

Where do you turn when… Member Login You absolutely cannot afford to be Hacked, Cracked, Robbed, Impersonated, Phished, Scammed, Spied On, Virus Infected or Otherwise Compromised? "Thank you for offering the best help I have experienced in the 25 years I have used a computer." - Patrick Chong, Castle Hill, NSW, Australia   "I have learned more from your book than from any other computer book I've ever read." - Harold Tritz, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, USA All computer users, at home or in the office, are exposed to more security risks than they can possibly imagine. Criminals and unprincipled deadbeats constantly prey on unsuspecting victims. For Your Own Protection You Need To Know... HOW TO keep your sensitive files away from prying eyes; HOW TO protect your PC from malicious attacks; HOW TO keep your online banking, shopping and e-mail safe. And rejoice in the improved performance once all the crap is disposed of, and you've rid yourself of all those annoyances that plague you every day. Thugs, crims and swindlers aren't just lurking in dark alleys any more! Now they're online, and they've become a lot more sophisticated. They hire clever but unprincipled programmers to fashion their underhand schemes and "cyber-weapons" for them. There is a small, inexpensive, readily available and quite legal device that can be secretly attached to any computer in under 10 seconds, without opening the case. It will record every keystroke that is entered at that computer from then on? - Could a visitor set such a trap on your home PC? - How safe is that public terminal you sometimes use? - How at-risk is the PC at your reception desk or front counter? And that's just one way. There are many others which require no physical access to your computer at all! Your address book, customer database, price-list, banking details, credit card numbers, passwords — everything is open to theft, abuse and prying eyes? How confident are you that someone, somewhere doesn't already have access to your most sensitive documents? Anything the crims can steal from you they will sell to the highest bidder if they can't use it themselves. Couldn't happen to you? Get Real! These thugs don't go looking for specific individuals. You don't have to be famous, successful or some sort of "known target". They use automated software that constantly scans huge chunks of the Internet looking for ANY unprotected computer that happens to be on-line. "There is now a 50% chance of being infected by an Internet worm within just 12 minutes of being online using an unprotected, unpatched Windows PC." - Sophos Inc. - Threat Management Solutions "Average time-to-exploitation ... for an unprotected computer is measured in minutes." - United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) One indicator of the extent of the problem is the massive amount of spam pervading the Internet. While you may think spam is a different problem to security, they're closely related. Here's how… Most spam is distributed through hundreds of millions of PCs owned by unsuspecting people just like you. Their computers have been "enslaved" by a rogue program — completely unknown to the owner/operators of the computer. This method of spam dissemination conceals the true spam originator from the eyes of any authorities. The hundreds of millions of owners of those hundreds of millions of compromised PCs have no clue that they are accomplices in one of the great scourges of the modern era. It's no exaggeration to talk in terms of millions, tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of computers. Nobody knows exactly how many Internet users there are worldwide, but certainly in excess of a billion (a thousand million) and probably closer to two billion. But being an unwitting spammer is not the worst of it for the owner/user of an infected PC. You see, bots can steal from a PC just as easily as they can use it for spamming. The modern cyber-crim doesn't break into a PC so he can wreak havoc with mindless destruction, such as deleting files, leaving disgusting messages, sending your browser to pornographic websites, inundating you with "adult" pop-ups, etc. Sure, all of that happens too, and vindictive "script-kiddies" are as active as ever, but today's real cyber-crim is much smarter than that. His goal is to make money. Data that is stolen without the owner's knowledge is much more valuable, because it can be monetized before you can take preventative measures, such as changing passwords or canceling credit cards. Another indicator of malicious intrusion is degraded performance. There can be a number of reasons why a computer appears to be running much slower than it used to, or is prone to lockups and crashes. Very high on the list of reasons is that it has been compromised in some way. We've seen PC owners almost speechless at how their computers have become