Hi

It looks like someones found out my Barclaycard details and has spent £280 on online gambling

Barclaycard are looking into it and i should get a refund, but i've only used the card online, is there any software i can run to checkout my pc?

I've got Spybot, which says i'm ok

Adrian

Hi,

Oh! mate was having £54 a month removed off his card for a year before he noticed runs the following: if on XP make sure you have service pack 2 loaded, Spybot is not bad although there is a nasty little package called 'dyfuca' which is a pain to remove (keeps reloading after supposed removal from reg' file) and will launch software without permission, so Zone alarm is nice little firewall (free or buy),

http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company/products/znalm/freeDownload.jsp

stops in's and out's unless you say so (dyfuca normally tries project ** is wanting internet access, so just deny it on Zone alarm). Assume you have a virus checker if not try AVG (free or buy)

http://www.avguk.com/

Has had little problem since although has learned to make sure the little paddlock comes up on the browser corner (secure site) before giving card details out, as well as making sure there is a landline and address of any company sending details too (as well as checking monthly statements).

Do have Acronis which cleans up most cookies, spyware, cache, etc, etc. Can send if needed. Hope it helps

Mark

More likely you have either had your card details stolen by someone you have bought something from or a phishing spoofed web site. Recently a guy was caught selling on card numbers at a highly respected ISP, he coughed to only about 250 numbers.

Web security wise the best advice is clear out your cookies, download and run "Hijackthis" only from http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html

Down load and run Free-AV http://www.free-av.com

For added security install Mozilla FireFox for browsing its much secure than than M$ IE6 and like wise use Mozilla Thunderbird for email.

Tanks for the advice

Ran progs, all seems fine

If i had gone on a spoof website, would my online order have worked? I recieved my bits thismorning

Adrian

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[Edited on 16-12-13 by Fozzie]

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