Problems+with+inernet+information

=**__Problems with information from the internet.__**=

There are many problems with using and transferring information over the internet. The information we can see can be **unreliable** and **undesireable.** With transferring data over the internet there are problems such as **phishing**, **pharming** and **SPAM**.



**__Unreliability of internet information__**
Anyone can publish a web page on the Internet, and many web sites may be of little value in a search for specific quantitative information. Due to the fact that many pages of the internet were written by regular individuals means that there could be a lot of personal ad biased opinions and less facts. Alot of the information we receive could be very false.

**__Undesireable internet information__**
Alot of the time while searching for information POP-UPs appear and show us things we don't usually ask to see. This contains adult porn and advertisements for online gambling and many other inappropriate links.

**__Phishing__**
Phishing is a name given to hackers who immitate companies in e-mails to entice people to share passwords and credit card numbers. The FBI called **phishing** the "hottest, and most troubling, new scam on the Internet." Phishing scams consist of you receiving an e -mail to do with your bank details. It will either say "update", "validate" or "confirm". If you click on this link it will redirect you to a normal looking website but it is fake. To avoid this: If you get an email about your financial information, don't reply. Use an anti-virus and update it regularly. Don't e-mail personal and financial information.

**__Pharming__**
Pharming is a scamming practise misdirecting users to fraudulent Web sites without their knowledge or consent. A main pharming tactic is a domain name system poisening (DNS poisening), in which the DNS table in a server is modifies so that someone who thinks they are accessing legitimate Web sites is actually directed toward fraudulent ones. Spyware removal programs cannot deal with this type of pharming because nothing need be technically wrong with the end users' computers. Pharming can be avoided, the same way as phishing. You have to be careful as to what sites you go to.

An example of pharming: BMIS have a website that uses the DNS, CIS. The website basically comes from there. If someone attacks CIS and goes onto the bishop mackenzie files that store all the website information, they can change the link. For example: If you can pay your fees online, pharming can lead you to a different place to pay which means the money goes to the wrong account. They are very professional and no one will notice that they've been scammed untill they realize their payments haven't been made.

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**__SPAM__**
Spam is flooding the internet with many copies of the same message, to force people to choose to receive it. Spam costs very little to send but mostly costs the receiver and the carrier. To avoid spam: Do not post your e-mail address anywhere Do not reply to SPAM messages. Do not try to buy anything from a SPAM message. Free SPAM filtering is offered, so use it. To know if a message is a SPAM message, it will be very unusual, usually too good to be true and you'll receive it a few times.
 * E-Mail SPAM** targets individuals with direct messages. People are forced to receive these e mails and it costs money out-of-pocket to receive.