PC Tools December Newsletter

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Avoid giving generously to cybercriminals 

In this edition we'll be covering: 

• Even as you’re online gaming 

• Who’s going to get "done" this season? 

Around the Holiday Season, the number and variety of threats tend to 
rise sharply. Cybercriminals plan ahead and like to take advantage of 
the shopping frenzy aware that most of us don’t have time to shop 
in-store. They are quick to utilize the popularity of news and 
entertainment events to trick users, infect and compromise their PCs 
and make off like The Grinch with everything in your bank accounts. 

Even as you’re online gaming 

Some of us like to slip away from the family gatherings to play online 
games. Due to the large multiplayer user bases of online games and the 
subsequent wide distribution of clients and servers, players are 
becoming increasingly vulnerable to Internet threats such as trojans, 
rootkits, viruses and keyloggers. What’s more, hackers are now 
targeting the virtual assets of online gamers, so that they can sell 
them in online black-markets for real-world cash. 

Who’s going to get “done” this season? 

Crooks persist because occasionally their efforts pay off big time. 
They’re going to get someone, probably lots of people. Will you be 
among their victims? There are two main things you can do to protect 
yourself are: 

1. Be sceptical, be savvy, be vigilant:If what’s being offered sounds 
too good to be true, it just may be. Think twice and check the source 
before taking goodies from what may be a dodgy site. Even some 
legitimate sites have been compromised by hackers to install spyware 
designed to quietly nab your financial details, while you unknowingly 
continue to use your PC. 

2. Get precision technology and powerful protection: An award-winning 
PC security program such as Spyware Doctor with AntiVirus is 
recommended to ensure that real time and behavior-based protection is 
in place to stop malicious programs before they execute their unique 
nastiness on your PC. 

When it comes to holiday gift giving, each of us should be able to 
decide how to spend our budget, rather than have our accounts drained 
as we sleep. 

Spyware Doctor with AntiVirus has multi-layer browser protection 
(Browser Guard, Site Guard) to block you from 
visiting exploited, hacked or potentially malicious websites and from 
downloading scareware, rogueware or fake antivirus threats and other 
malicious downloads. 

PC Tools wishes you and your family all the best this holiday season, 
and safe web surfing! 

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