The act of sending an e-mail to a user falsely claiming to be an established legitimate enterprise in an attempt to scam the user into surrendering private information that will be used for identity theft. The e-mail directs the user to visit a Web site where they are asked to update personal information, such as passwords and credit card, social security, and bank account numbers, that the legitimate organization already has. The Web site, however, is bogus and set up only to steal the user��s information. For example, 2003 saw the proliferation of a phishing scam in which users received e-mails supposedly from eBay claiming that the user��s account was about to be suspended unless he clicked on the provided link and updated the credit card information that the genuine eBay already had. Because it is relatively simple to make a Web site look like a legitimate organizations site by mimicking the HTML code , the scam counted on people bein...
Window 7 comes with an attractive capability of converting your laptop or PC into a Wi-Fi hotspot. But there are some problems that are associated with its implementation. Assuming that your wireless card supports this functionality and all the necessary drivers have been installed on your system, another icon will appear in the network connection by the name of “Wireless Network Connection 2, Microsoft Virtual Wi-Fi Miniport adapter”. The main problem is that you cannot configure it as you perform in the GUI mode on the other connections. Thus you have to use a command line in order to use it. Follow the steps written below and it works! Launch the command prompt as an administrator. Type the command as C:\Windows\system32>netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid=MYWIFI key=passwrd Replace MYWIFI with the desired name that you want and repeat this step for passwrd also. The output should be similar to the following. The hosted network mode has been set to allow. The SSID of the...