Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Can Spyware steal your identity?
Not only your identity... It is a small program you do not know about that got installed in your computer and that came from a suspicious site. You do not know it is there as it is hidden. How did the program enter your computer?
It can enter your computer in many different ways. You could have gone to a p2p (peer to peer) site such as Limewire. P2p means "peer to peer", by the way. How do these programs work?
Let us say that your mother uses the computer to purchase something using her credit or debit card; as she types her CC number, expiration date and security code, the spyware program relays your mother's name, address, CC information and more to the criminals' computers. Once they have this information, they can make a plastic card with your mother's information and use it to clean up her bank account and/or charge her CC to its limit.
Stealing someone's identity is easier if you have all their information and this is a far worse situation than criminals just maxing out credit cards.
In conclusion, it is essential to have a spyware protection program like Windows Defender installed in all your computers so that your personal information is kept safe.
What do you think? Do you know anyone who has been the victim of this type of crime?
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Spyware is dangerous because it could steal your identity and get you I debt also too.
ReplyDeleteTrue.Ever since I downloaded Limewire on my laptop I've been getting all kinds of viruses and my laptop runs really slow.Also I have all kinds pop ups and adds that appears on my laptop.>:O Not cool.
ReplyDeleteSpyware is very dangerous . This happen To myy cousin before .
ReplyDeletei downloaded limewire &mycomp is slower thanever
ReplyDeleteI think this is an great program becausee it can tell you were unordinary things in your come from . such things can become viruses , and this pogram helps out clea out your computer.
ReplyDeleteI think is a good blog n it is important to know about this!
ReplyDeleteIt was good ! A lot of people to steal other people's identity and this helps prevent that.
ReplyDeleteyes this is true because on spyware my friends mother credit cars number got stollen in the computer.
ReplyDeleteIt all started when my mom went to go to the bank to take out money when she found out that all her money was gone. My mom did not remember using all her money. When the lady came in to take out money the lady was stealing my mothers money. It was a big fight going on with my mom and the lady. Now my moms stuff is not stolen anymore.
ReplyDeleteYess This Is True Because Anyone Who Buy Something On The Computer && Someone Would Get Your Number && Spend All Your Money That You Have In The Card!!
ReplyDeleteWell I will be really furious it spyware every affected someone I know or myself.Good thing it has never happened.
ReplyDeleteIt is true spyware is bad.
ReplyDeleteYes my cousin Angel. One day she Was buying something online for me because I didn't have no money to pay for it on my own. So she type in her card number and all her essential information. However something had came into her computer name Spywareas this website has been taking all her information and someone used it to get their own stuff. It took my cousin a few months or years to clean up all this mess but just to be safe she didn't put important information in the computer.
ReplyDeleteYes my cousin Angel. One day she Was buying something online for me because I didn't have no money to pay for it on my own. So she type in her card number and all her essential information. However something had came into her computer name Spywareas this website has been taking all her information and someone used it to get their own stuff. It took my cousin a few months or years to clean up all this mess but just to be safe she didn't put important information in the computer.
ReplyDeleteMY friend mother didn't know someone was usin her card she notices when she had to owe alot of money.
ReplyDeleteWerd . My mommy wass doing something rite . It had to deal with her credit card she put her pin then went to the bath room . iSaw something and wanted to buy it threw my iPod . So iWrote her pin down . THen iRelized iWas doing something bad . So iDidnt do it
ReplyDeletewhat would happen to my mom if a person stole her bank account think she would cancel that account and open a new one.
ReplyDeleteif my mother's bank account got stolen i would tell her to make a new one.or change the pass word.also i would tell her to tell the police that her account got stolen.
ReplyDeletei dont get what if you didnt download something will you still get a virus.i rember my aunt oder something on avon and ma stuff came in the mail and she didnt use her credit card for that.so she had to pay a lot and she did not use that for those stuff
ReplyDeletema sistah was doin something and shee didnt noo wat she was doin and when she went to the store they had told her that it was nothin on the card and she had to owe alot of money $$
ReplyDeleteI know how this feels cuzz the same thing happened to my aunt and now she doesnt have a computer... I really hope that this never happeneds to mii
ReplyDeletei think this pararagh that can inform about the people that there are alot of people that could steal your info and can really hurt you
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