Broadband customers should give due consideration to the security and safety factors when buying broadband connection. Few clues and tips concerning this topic are provided by an expert in this industry. This way you will know how to be safe online.

The software developer’s senior technology consultant and dealer of Sophos, Graham Cluley has made clear that the economic slowdown has affected every area of consumers’ lives which includes web-threats. He said that hackers, who are “financially motivated”, use Trojan horses regularly in order to make possible money for malevolent internet users. He pointed out that these Trojan horses are not just copied like traditional viruses but are carried through spam mails. When this software hits your computer it can access information such as bank account detail and credit card information.

A number of spiteful internet users have understood that they could make easy money by using malware without highly risking themselves. He suggests that each day a number of strange malware comes out mostly attacking social networking sites. At times about 40,000 new malware appears.

Broadband user’s needs to invest on an advanced antivirus program, firewall and the newest security fixes to existing software so that they could stay away from trap of hackers. He said this following the data issued by PandaLabs which revealed a hike of 600 per cent of PCs infected by Trojans when compared to the previous year.

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