Scamming Season

" Welcome back here's some interesting computer timeline trivia that you may not have known my certainly didn't. Holiday season is also the hacking season is the time a year that you are most likely to get stand on the Internet. While your shopping hackers are steaming. -- silly on us here now some tips on how to avoid getting ripped off. Which is about the least -- thing we can expect this time the season. -- identity theft expert he's got four tips four yeah Robert welcome to your world let's walk through your number one -- Is something a lot of people may not realize that they log in make sure there is an ass on the website name before the slashes. Yeah where it says."

" HTTP. It needs to say HT TPS. That means it's a secure page. Now when you go in and -- your username and password into a bank's website. Not gonna see that it's a secured page same thing with the retailer you'd need to make sure -- that's a secure page where you and dirt your credit card information you're naming. Addressed now that other stuff that they don't have it then don't use. If it's not secured I wouldn't enter my personal information in there okay now a lot of people may buy new computers -- get a lot of spyware on their computer they don't realize it. You want to haven't updated virus and spyware protector are there any that you recommend. Well all the big he's known nor -- McAfee and AVG. Another really good one it's free is not a vast that's a really good one. It's -- noninvasive that runs in the background takes good area you have to make sure that your virus definitions are updated. Every time you go online you would make sure that you ought PC is secure our. And that means that you virus definitions updated automatically. The you don't have to do it manually end it's also important that your windows operating system 90% of PCs and windows makes you windows operating systems. Critical security patches are updated. Automatically video service pack two in your operating system and a lot of times to our people out there working harder than ever may be traveling in May be tempted to do some online shopping. From that wireless hot spot the Internet you're saying -- and now. Wait to you get home or your back in the office. It's not a good idea to be entering credit card information and a wireless Internet cafe at a copy shop. You -- wait -- at a secured wired connection before you stop plugging in a credit card information and finally when you do plug in the credit card and when it's done and charged up. Take a look at it make sure everything is right. Around the holiday season you want to check those David at least every single week as -- is that those credit cards. At the retailer's online you want to check those credit card statements over the Internet. And refuting unauthorized charges with in a sixty day period of time. If you don't do that within two billing cycles not going to eat those charges that that identity theft -- up credit card. For good tips to protect yourself this holiday season from getting hacked Roberts is Ileana ID theft expert Robert thank you very much have a happy holidays have. Have a Thanksgiving all right take care we'll."