I am constantly amazed at the difficulty I have convincing clients/friends and others that connecting a PC to the internet is one of the most dangerous modern activities.

It seems that the most prevalent attitude is yes, but it won’t happen to me.

Well, the truth of the matter is it can, it will … and it probably already has!

Here’s a quote from a recent report on A Current Affair

Michael Roggenkamp is proof it can happen to anyone – he’s an academic specialising in information technology who had over $20,000 stolen from his savings account.

This, and hundreds of thousand more, was stolen with the help of a “trojan virus”, a simple software program that installs itself on your PC, collects your passwords, and sends them to the bad guys who then rob you blind. In this case, they were pretty greedy, emptying bank accounts over a few days. If they, the Bad Guys that is, were a bit more patient, they could probably skim funds from many accounts over periods of months or even years!

Anyway, take note of the title The Internet is a hostile network like the wild west without a sheriff ! which is the by-line of http://www.firewallguide.com/

Check it out, and make a genuine assessment of the risk that you face each time you fire up Internet Explorer.