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A great experience people do enjoy those days over the Internet are social networks. They are vast websites which allow us to make new friends, keep in touch with them and share everything from photos to blogs to relationship statuses. Lots of people do use social networks like MySpace, Twitter and Facebook on an almost daily base. Those networks with millions of users already are growing everyday at a fast-paced rhythm. Because of such popularity, all those sites are being used by cybercriminals. Those bad people will try many ways to spread viruses, steal people’s personal infos and to do online crime. Those cybercriminals are using those websites because, generally speaking, the common PC user will trust those social networks to be 100% safe.

To protect your personal data and your computer system from fraudulent activities that might occur on those social networks is very important for any social network’s user, including yourself. Short of generic principles applying to those products, it is known that commercial antivirus solution can scan/monitor for viruses while the PC is being used by the user. This is an advantage for many people.

Many PC users can think that social sites are dangerous ones so different methods than the previous talked about can be needed, like manual methods. The manual method can be resumes in the following lines:

·    Carefully consider what information you are publishing online– Do not publish photos, videos and personal information that could be used against you. Photos and videos that demean you as a person are also not recommended.

·    Be careful who are your online friends– Be sure that those people you do connect to on such social websites are also the ones you would associate with in real life. Refrain from adding people (friends) because you think that’s cool having many. Some of them could be cyber criminals or psychopathic stalkers. You don’t want either of those on your case.

·    Your infos should not be visible by every people on a given network– You should be aware some options on those networks do allow friends of your friends to see your infos, unless you block them from being able to. Do not allow this, set your profile information so that it is not shown to anyone other than your friends.

·    Unverified messages containing instructions should not be obeyed neither replied to– Hackers will send messages having as attachments compromised applications. Those messages will look like that they are coming from the development team of the social network you’re using. Be extremely cautious if the message instructs you to download and install certain applications. To infect your computer system with some virus is what those hackers want to do with such message.
·    Never do online posts on your profile related to your vacations.  Otherwise your house and personal belonging are even more vulnerable to thieves.

Your online way to do things, more when dealing with social networks, should include the previous points we talked about. You will also help the whole Internet community to fight those hackers. This way, you will help others social networks users and the whole experience of everyone will be a great one.