Friday, December 2, 2011

6 Steps to Securing Your Facebook Account

Facebook fraud is rampant. Although Facebook is also doing block, the user needs to secure their accounts. Consider the following ropes.
You need to realize that the antivirus program can not detect a scam because the scam is not a virus. You as an internet user should always be wary of scams like this.



If your Facebook account controlled by scammers and used to spread the scam link, surely you are not directly contribute to making friends of your Facebook contacts into your Facebook account theft victim.
Vaksincom suggest you consider a few things below to avoid the scam and the threat of theft / misuse of Facebook accounts or other important accounts.
1. Activate the secure browsing / https for all your accounts, whether Facebook, Yahoo mail, or Gmail.
Enabling https will encrypt all data transmitted between your browser and the server service providers, such as Facebook, Yahoo mail or Gmail, so it will be very difficult for criminals to eavesdrop on data traffic and your credentials.
On the menu up, secure browsing can be activated by clicking the downward arrow to the right of the [Home], select [Account Settings] from the dropdown box to bring up the menu [Account Settings] and click [Security] on the menu on the left to bring up the menu [Security Settings].
Click [Edit] on the [Secure Browsing] and check / tick box options [Browse Facebook on a secure connection (https) Pls possible] and click [Save Changes] (See Figure 1).
 
2. Use a good password, do not be easily guessed passwords. If you can use a combination of upper / lower case, numbers / letters and punctuation marks.
3. Do not use the same password for multiple accounts you. If a stolen account will lead to other accounts involved stolen.
4. If you have a lot of credentials to remember, use the password reminder program that will store and mengekripsi all your credentials and you only need to remember one password to access all your passwords from your computer.
5. Use an antivirus program that was updated to detect a trojan / keylogger that could potentially steal your credentials.
It would be better if your antivirus program has a web-protection capabilities that will detect the web site phishing / scam and download trojans and prevent you from executing a web or file.
6. Do not run a link that you do not know about the security of the browser you are currently using to open up because the cookie used to open a FB account on your browser will also be used to open the links you click.
If this happens, the link will be opened utilizing your credentials are stored in browser cookies that are used to open up the link.

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