Krebs’s 3 Basic Rules for Online Safety
Summary: Krebs on Security lays out three basic online safety rules: don't install software you didn't go looking for, update whatever you did install, and remove programs you no longer need. The post names scareware pop-ups, fake video codec prompts, and attacks on flaws in Java, Adobe PDF Reader, and Flash as the threats these habits are meant to blunt.
What's compelling: The first rule targets the trick that carries most attacks here: a user who never sought the software is the one who installs it, and a single scareware pop-up or fake codec prompt is enough to start it.
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