This Christmas Beware of Malware: McAfee

December 24, 2011 15:36
This Christmas Beware of Malware: McAfee

The new Intel company McAfee has warned the consumers with twelve scams for this Christmas. McAfee says the partypoopers had found twelve new ways to hack the internet enabled devices.

McAfee has warned its consumers indulging in e-shopping to beware of the malware during this Christmas season. Holidays is the season green for network deceivers who will land new ways to extract, information that is up-close and personal The time of party and Festival had  just arrived  but at the same time Network deceivers  has  landed with their new ways of  flicking happiness of internet users through their Malwares. The new Intel company   McAfee has warned the consumers with twelve scams for this Christmas. McAfee says the partypoopers had found twelve new ways to hack the internet enabled devices.

It is the time were many of the consumers look in for Good deals for their holiday day Gifts, Gadgets and A family hangout for their vocation and many feel comfortable in using their Hand held devices to manage all these happenings .Therefore it is good that they are aware before they Logon. Here are the twelve scams of the Internet Hackers. It is said that 52.6 percent of the US consumers   own a Smart Phone. If they use it for their shopping and rest of the stuffs .It is found that Android powered Smart Phones are at the highest point of risk. And the Risk rate is said to be 76 % for the Android users. The Malwares for the smart phones are through QR codes were they users scans the bar codes of the products they want to buy. Smart Phones and its Applications go hand in hand .It is advised for the users to download applications from authorized App downloader Website. There are applications which are disguised as an APP for fun &Frolic but This App May extract your information about your  Bank Balance, Credit card and the rest which should not be Disclosed .

This Malware is for the people who don’t want to spend rather who wants to win prices and redeem coupons from their Social Networking sites through contest.  By using this hackers can get to know about the user’s personal info which is used  for theft. Scareware which is the fake Antivirus software which is used to put the user in false belief that their PC is under Threat .So they download the scareware  to protect their device and  It is design in such a way were the user has to submit their  personal info and It is said that one million user fall as a victim for downloading  fake antivirus.

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