One in ten online shoppers faces Yuletide attack

AS PEOPLE flock to the electronic high street to do their seasonal gift shopping, so are the fraudsters gearing up to rip us off.

Big insecurity chief, Micheal Greene, from PC Tools reckons that one in ten online shoppers are going to face an attack from Sypware, Adware, Aalware or Steal-your-indenity-ware. With online shopping reaching $10 billion during last years holiday season, this is prime time for phishers and hackers to be plying their trade.

Greene continues by saying that many people simply aren't aware that online shopping can cause problems exposing them to indentity theft and infection of their PC's. He then goes on to suggest that we should make sure that sites are secure and encrypted when entering personal details and to use trusted resellers rather than unknown names.

Naturally Greene prompts us to make sure we are protected from online attack using programs such as the new Spyware Doctor 5.0 and Antivirus 3.0 from PC Tools. µ

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