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1). Securing Your Internet TransactionsOver the last few years, the real growth of the Internet has been in the area of e-commerce. The proliferation and growth of popular e-commerce web sites like Amazon, Ebay, etc. has led to a rapid increase in the number of monetary transactions happening every day. This, in turn, has driven the need to find newer methods to maintain the security of such web sites.
2). Firewalls 101
What is a firewall?
A firewall is a hardware or software solution that protects your computer network by preventing its access by unauthorised or potentially dangerous software, by using a system of built-in filters.
A firewall is typically a software package, or a dedicated gateway machine. The gateway acts as a security system for networks connected to the Internet.
3). Understanding Spam
What is spam?
Large numbers of unsolicited, unwanted, intrusive, irrelevant or inappropriate commercial messages sent via email or instant messenger is called spam.
Spam is basically the same message sent repeatedly to a user. Generally, spam on the Internet is used for commercial advertising. It is a cheap but unreliable way to reach consumers. Spam advertisers incur no real costs to send out emails to users, beyond accessing, managing and updating email lists.
4). Viruses And Spyware
Computer viruses and spyware are some of the types of malicious software (malware) that propagate and affect computer users.
What is a computer virus?
A computer virus is the term coined for a malicious software program, which enters into a user’s system and copies itself into various files. The analogy is similar to that of a biological virus, which propagates by copying itself into living cells.