▶ Your Answer :
According to developing internet rapidly, not only several benefits such as saving time by using the internet’s fast feature like internet payment but also many dangers start to appear both financial and psychological in the internet. For example, there are the Invasion of personal privacy through personal information hacking and, phishing. Also, indiscreet pornography exposure brings bad effect. Thus, the web is not a safe place anymore. However, there problems can prevent through some methods like installing anti-virus programs, firewall and government’s strict regulation.
Firstly, people’s individual information, which is often infringed and is exploited by variety of viruses and hacking, can be protected by installing firewall, anti-virus programs which be maintained the latest condition, and by avoiding unnecessary homepage registering and financial transactions. Talking about viruses in detail, there are Worm program, Trojan and One-half viruses typically. According to Ahnlab which is a very famous Korean institute site of computer viruses, Worm transports another vital virus program like Trojan and One-half viruses in people’s computer. Trojan and One-half viruses is a program that not only hack personal information such as password and credit card number but also destroy their data. Besides, Hackers use fraud like phishing to get personal identification number, financial information and sometimes install hacking program in public places- such as PC rooms to know password. Because of these problems, many ordinary people often experience economic loss. For example, there was one famous shopping site called ‘auction.’ This is personal information disclosure case about 1,863 people in the Korea on February 2008. At that time, many people was damaged economically such as being used up money in their bank account by being steeled credit card number. One of other methods which prevent these problems is people need to doubt the attached files of P2P or email and to download necessary data in official site not illegal site. Furthermore, when people make password, combining number and English letters and regularly changing is good method. |