If you are feeling in a charitable mood, and want to make life easier for hackers, crackers and other variations on the words that rhyme with packers, you should store all your passwords in a plain text file, word document or excel document, and call it something like "passwords".  This will greatly assist anybody who gains access to your files to remove as much money from you as possible.    read more

While all of these types of malware are concerning, there are several preventative measures you can take to ensure you stay safe both online and offline. Primarily, ensure that you have a quality antivirus installed on your system and keep it up to date. Keeping up with things such as your Windows updates is very important as sometimes Microsoft releases system and program security updates. If you are intending to surf the web, make sure your chosen internet browser is up to date as you can become infected just by visiting a page which contains malicious code. read more