About Using Twitter: Beware of Twitter Virus and Malware
Social networking sites have allowed us to stay in touch with our loved ones and even chat with celebrities if you get lucky once in a while. Many of you must have heard of the most used social networking site, Twitter. Many of you may even have accounts in Twitter, but did you know that your account and information is at grave risk. That’s right if you are careless your account can be easily hacked into.
Ways to protect yourself from Twitter virus and malware
- Don’t disclose too much: For example if a stranger comes up to you and asks you where you live, your most likely answer would be either the state name or just the city name. You wouldn’t even tell your locality name, it’s the same here don’t disclose your personal details to anyone here. When you don’t know someone keep far as possible. He/she might just be a hacker waiting to attack your account.
- Lose privacy: Similar to Face book, Twitter also has the same problem, you don’t have much privacy. Did you know when though you are free of malware and your friend has malware you too stand a chance of getting affected. This is exactly how hackers hack from one account to the other through our friends and family and use their accounts to gather your information.
- I would recommend you don’t put up too much of information of yourself on your account as that is the best way to reduce your chances in getting affected by malware.
- Avoid retweeting: Try to avoid retweeting as you need to always check a link before sending it. Usually this a very common way of getting spam attacks that depend on blind retweeting to gather more users into the scam.
- Don’t click on unknown links: This is especially for you guys. How many of you have fallen for this one. This is a very old method of laying a trap for you guys by posting a picture of a beautiful girl with a link below and you guys of course immediately click on that link only to get infected with malware. If at all you don’t know that person, then it is best to avoid their links or encouraging them to send messages.
So friends, I hope you can stay safe by following the above methods.
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