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The latest Info regarding SCAM, SPAM, INTERNET DANGERS & CELL-PHONES

Cell-phones and Internet

The Internet is a playground for sexual predators. Learn how to protect your children with available Internet safety resources. Pedophiles once lurked in parks and around schoolyards, and then they prowled the playground of the World Wide Web. Now these predators have a more sinister method at their fingertips — sending explicit text messages directly to your child's cell phone.

Dr. Phil examines the latest technological threats to your kids and shows you how to protect them. (see archived episode of A Terrifying Ordeal).
Kyra was 12 when she was sexually assaulted by a 22-year-old man she met in a chat room. Sixteen-year-old Zoe admits that she exchanges
risqué photos with men on the Internet but says this is normal teen behavior. Her mother, Sharon, says Zoe invited a 28 year old man into
her home whom she met online. These stories are archived and can be visited at Dr.Phil.com

Now, with the latest amazing technology, you can monitor their cell phone usage with RADAR, "My Mobile Watchdog"! Get more detailed info direct from their website mymobilewatchdog.com

Safeguard Your Children While Using Cell Phones.
Everything available on the Internet is now available on cell phones- email, text messaging, instant messaging and web browsing. Children are going mobile for more than just talking. Unfortunately, that means online safety threats such as cyber bullies are now also cell phone safety threats. My Mobile Watchdog keeps your children safe while using their cell phones by showing you what they see and who they talk to.
Parents are the first defense against cell phone dangers. My Mobile Watchdog is a parenting tool that gives you the information necessary to effectively talk with your children about safety threats and potential dangers, it also notifies the user that they are being monitored,
making it impossible to track their usage secretly.
Read What Your Kids Are Text Messaging
Cell phones on the market today are capable of text messaging, and today's teens have embraced texting as a common form of communication.
Texting allows children to speak to each other in a coded language that often leaves parents in the dark regarding their activities and circle of friends. My Mobile Watchdog allows you to read their text messages and see pictures they send and receive from their phone.

Most people know that OMG means Oh, my God, and LOL stands for Laugh out Loud. But teens are getting more cryptic with their text messaging lingo, and their shorthand can range from the silly to the sexually explicit. How savvy are you? The following is a glossary of some common acronyms that your child may be using to keep you in the dark.

Text Messaging Acronyms: ADR — Address, AFK — Away from Keyboard, ASL — Age/Sex/Location,  BRB — Be Right Back, GTG — Got to Go, GYPO — Get Your Pants off , IWSN — I Want Sex Now,  JK — Just Kidding, KFY — Kiss for You, KPC — Keeping Parents Clueless, LMIRL — Let's Meet in Real Life, LMAO—Laughing My Ass off, LOL — Laugh out Loud, MorF — Male or Female, NIFOC — Nude in Front Of Computer, P911 - Parent Alert, PAL — Parents Are Listening, PAW — Parents Are Watching, PIR — Parent in Room, POS — Parents over Shoulder, SorG — Straight or Gay, TDTM — Talk Dirty to Me, WYCM — Will You Call Me?

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How big is the virus problem?
There are hundreds of thousands known viruses; and more are written every day. About 95-98% of viruses come through e-mail and instant messaging. Often viruses arrive with e-mails disguised as something entertaining, like pictures, music, or greeting cards. This is because most viruses these days 'spoof' their source addresses. Therefore people will receive viruses that look like they are from a friend when in reality they are not. Virus writers are working around the clock to attack you; whilst the anti-virus vendors and Microsoft are working around the clock to protect you. Besides picking up a virus from an e-mail attachment, you can acquire a virus or worm from free content you download from a Web site or from a disk someone shares with you. If your computer is not protected, once you download and install the program, the virus can spread around the world in less than 24 hours. But even after a virus is no longer in the news, it may still be active and can continue to harm computers that are not protected.

What's Your Risk?
Viruses can carry a damaging payload, such as a worm or Trojan horse program. When a virus infects your e-mail or other files, it can make copies of itself—possibly filling up your disk drive, send itself to everyone else on your e-mail list, reformat your disk drive and/or delete your files and programs, install hidden programs, such as pirated software, that can be distributed and sold using your machine.  How to know if your computer has a virus? Stay alert for symptoms like these, computer slows down, or there is a very large amount of modem activity. If you have an external modem, you may notice the lights blinking excitedly when you are not actively using the computer, such as downloading a file. You could be supplying pirated software. Watch for any unusual behaviour of your computer. Notice if applications are not operating correctly or if content in files appears scrambled.

What should you do if you get a virus?
Get the latest "virus signature file" from your anti-virus vendor's Web site. Minimize your risks by following these steps: Assess your risk; Use anti-virus software; Keep your software up-to-date; Check your security settings; Use a firewall; Create strong passwords; Conduct routine security maintenance.

The most common Types are!
Viruses - A virus is a small piece of software that piggybacks on real programs. For example, a virus might attach itself to a program such as a spreadsheet program. Each time the spreadsheet program runs, the virus runs, too, and it has the chance to reproduce (by attaching to other programs) or wreak havoc. A computer virus must piggyback on top of some other program or document in order to get executed. Once it is running, it is then able to infect other programs or documents. Obviously, the analogy between computer and biological viruses stretches things a bit, but there are enough similarities that the name sticks.  E-mail viruses - An e-mail virus moves around in e-mail messages, and usually replicates itself by automatically mailing itself to dozens of people in the victim's e-mail address book. Worms - A worm is a small piece of software that uses computer networks and security holes to replicate itself. A copy of the worm scans the network for another machine that has a specific security hole. It copies itself to the new machine using the security hole, and then starts replicating from there, as well. Worms use up computer time and network bandwidth when they are replicating, and they often have some sort of evil intent. Trojan horses - A Trojan horse is simply a computer program. The program claims to do one thing (it may claim to be a game) but instead does damage when you run it (it may corrupt your system even erase your hard disk). Trojan horses have no way to replicate automatically.

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