In the recent period increased the severity of malicious programs and applications that are stealing our data and personal information, and the subject has become a threat to all users of smartphones and PC alike, in our article will review everything about spyware and how to protect yourself from its mistakes and effects and save your information and photos safely .
First, what are spyware
Most of the spyware is installed either by persuading the user to visit a damaged site and then exploiting the program to install spyware or by installing a program that contains software Spy without his knowledge. There are also custom spy apps that someone can install on your device if they can access them for less than one minute.
Second: Spyware damage
1. Spyware placed on your phone by the manufacturer, tracks your physical movements and use the Internet in order to better target you with ads, but this type of spyware rarely has any direct impact on you or your information.
2. Other types are an immediate danger because these programs are specifically designed to collect information about you for use in identity theft or even credit information, or even spy on you directly by accessing the camera and microphone in your smartphone. This type has spread widely on phones and it is expected that this type of spyware will become more common in the future.
3. After criminals have successfully used spyware to extract personal information from their victim, they use that information for financial gain.
Third: Tips to protect your smartphone from spyware
1. Avoid installing any third-party app or from untrusted sources.This means that the only apps you should use are those available on the Google Play app store. Even the app store is not spyware-free, so you should install apps from Trusted developers after reviewing feedbacks and positive responses.
2. Always check app permissions when installing apps. If an app requests permissions that seem odd or don't match the app, stop the installation and avoid the app altogether. For example, the navigation apps will need your phone's GPS and the note-taking application does not need your phone's GPS.
3. Be wary of attachments, links, open Wi-Fi connections, and charging ports in public places. Hackers can use it to install spyware on your device. Avoid public networks, links or attachments on social media sites or e-mail if you do not know the source.
4. Taking security measures to protect your identity, information and money is imperative. There are many security apps available on the store, whether free or paid, you can use one to protect yourself, especially paid applications that provide complete protection for your smartphone.
Fourth: Tips to protect your PC from spyware
1.Download Kaspersky Antivirus, Bitdefender, Avira, ESET NOD32 Antivirus and run them on the device at the same time (to avoid the risk of penetration of the firewall of the anti-virus as many anti-virus programs difficult to penetrate them) and update them completely and do a scan of the device and delete any question The software detects it.
2- Work Offline Scan by scanning your hard disk on another computer to get rid of Trojans or any unknown malicious applications.
3 - You can add a second layer of protection through the application of DoH or DNS Over HTTPS (the method of application DoH or DNS Over HTTPS from here) Friendly simply that even if the connection between you and between the site is safe and running on HTTPS Internet Service Provider estimated that it shows the name of the domain and the site that you Visited.
4 - Avoid opening links and files of unknown source or questionable and upload it to sites dedicated to open links anonymous source example here or here and analyze the link and see the result of analysis so that if the link in question something suspicious Htlaqaa in the report of the link at the end of the examination.
If you have to open a slot in a virtual computer or a virtual operating system or Virtual Machine and you can get it from many sites, for example from here.
5. Follow-up add-ons browsers (Extensions, Plugins) have access to the tabs in the browser and therefore can modify them.
6. Developers and advanced users should use tools such as TCPView and Process Explorer to check every connection and running process in the operating system and to monitor network endpoints and operations in desktop systems and servers, but does not prevent any sophisticated malicious software.
7. If you are dealing with a particular site from a period of time and suddenly asked you for special information such as your password or your credit card call the administration of the site or ask your friends if they face the same problem may be malicious programming on your computer or even the site itself has been hacked and was added malicious program For the purpose of stealing personal information.
8 - Encryption should be done hard disk or hard disk da Bitm on Windows by activating the Full Disk Encryption and BitLocker and on Apple Mac devices can do File Vault.
9 - beware of third-party applications and third-party applications and applications have been programmed in order to access your personal data from e-mail and so, for example, applications that ask you to access your account data on Facebook and is a normal page within the browser as an application I know your form And many, you request access to your data and is done by the platform
They should be wary of themselves because they are often in attractive names (for example, the security of your account, the passage of a particular game, a hacked game, and so on).
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