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ANY ATTEMPTS AT PROMOTING ANY KIND OF HACKING IN ANYWAY WILL RESULT IN AN IMMEDIATE BAN
This thread was made for educational purposes only, Due to the fact that I see so many of you guy's goofin up daily! I will admit that I am not the greatest with this stuff, but I do know enough to keep my self safe, and I hope this will help keep you guy's a bit safer aswell.

Ok guys, I have wanted to do this for a while.. Mainly because not many of you understand what you are doing. The internet, is a terrible, cruel, unforgiving place, it will hurt you if you give it the option. Hopefully i can help clear some thing's up below.

-When people post something that is to good to be true, it most likely is.

-When it is a .rar or .zip, it can have anything hidden inside of it, and can activate itself the second you unzip it!

-When you extract a .Rar or .Zip it can have hidden files like 'Keyloggers'.

-Once you have been infected your information will most likely be at high risk,
the only defense really is to format/reinstall your OS on your computer, and get ALL of your Passwords/Personal information changed very quickly.

-It is always a good idea to check your processes on your computer, To do so Ctrl+Alt+Delete-->click the tab that says proceesses
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-Reading the description will usually give you an idea what that process is doing, If it says something stupid like MOM.EXE or CANDY.EXE (Full capitals or something not PC related are usually giveaways)

*Picture*- Notice how all these are associated with a program that is well known, If you have no idea what the Process is, use google! Thats why it is there!
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-A good Anti-Virus usually helps aswell,Something like Norton is not always the best.(It is still good though ) Norton is so well known it is usually a target, people will try and make whatever they are making so Norton can't detect it. My personal choice, from pictures above, is AVG.

-Also, if you think you may ever had someone viewing your personal information, check your email account's. Go in there and make sure that there are no email forwarders.

-Unless you manually want to dig into your computer and remove any spyware, loggers, or bots the best/easiest way to remove them is a complete OS Install. A logger can hide itself anywhere, and you may never find it all and get rid of it.

-Once you have been added into the person's 'BotNet' he will then use your connection/computer for either Host booting, or just help himself to your personal information, such as emails, youtubes, paypals, xbox accounts.

-Like i said before, if it seems to good to be true, it most likely is, Ever hear of a 'Point Generator' ? Do you really think Microsoft would let something like that happen!? It is either just a simple troll, or has a fisher in it and will email your details to the creator!

-Another thing to make sure of is check the file size. If you know your downloading something like photoshop, and the file is 200KB, you might have a small issue.

-While we're talking about stuff like photoshop, Keygenerators often come up *Not promoted by Me or TTG in anyway!* a keygenerator is a .exe, When you run a homemade .exe make sure you know where it comes from! It is rather simple for them to put a keylogger in it. Always, Always, Always run virus scan's on the file's and programs, and keep asking questions. Try your best to Not except any programs or file's from people you don't know, and especially off of youtube!

I hope this will help you guy's a bit, Any questions you may have, I will try and answer so feel free to P.M or post about it


*Any other info i can think of later will be added*


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Nice post dude hopefully will help ppl from falling victom.
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This iz nice post bud
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Agreed theres been so many post about this lately
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follow these tips and you will not fall victim of frauds.

always try to buy from internet with a computer YOU know isn't infected. and. try to not use accounts. use stores that ships only to USA (or the country you live in.) GameStop only ships to USA.
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nice job rickshaw <3
hope fully save some people
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Zaney wrote Agreed theres been so many post about this lately

Yeahh right ?
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Kinda common sence but alot of people on the internet lack some, great post.
also not to be an D*ck but you spelt hear wrong look -"Like i said before, if it seems to good to be true, it most likely is, Ever here of a 'Point Generator' ? Do you really think Microsoft would let something like that happen!? It is either just a simple troll, or has a fisher in it and will email your details to the creator!"
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Nice post man really helps
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Thanks guys I hope this helps some of you
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