To find a reputable website dedicated to computer security for the non technical person is hard to find. Enter http://www.yoursecurityresource.com/ which was created just for the purpose of educating the non technology professionals by using authors to interview the expert within the industry and then writing their findings in non layman’s terms. The site is heavily sponsored and promoted by Symantec the makers of Norton Antivirus so you know that the information contained within is trusted otherwise Symantec would have never put their name behind it. HeroTechs Inc. was fortunate enough to be used as an expert security source for Internet Threats within the following article:


NEW TARGETS: New Source of Internet Threat: Banner AdsBy Kim BoatmanLocated at: http://www.yoursecurityresource.com/articles/banner/index.html. We were fortunate enough to have Kim quote us 3 times within the article and the quotes are listed below for your convenience.


Quote 1:
The problem is particularly alarming because hackers often target high-volume websites with ads that don’t look suspicious, says Thomas K. McCabe, president of HeroTechs Inc., a Long Island, N.Y.-based computer service company. “There is plenty of advertising out there, but you can’t tell which ones are good versus which ones are not,’’ he warns.


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A popular ploy directs you to an infected site where a screen pops up showing that an antivirus scan has found viruses on your computer, says McCabe. You are directed to “click here” to remove the virus. Instead, clicking loads the malware onto your computer.“I witnessed this thing hitting my wife when she visited a legitimate cooking web site,’’ McCabe says. “She was about to hit the click here button, and I had to swing the mouse away.”


Quote 3:
Be smart when you click. The value of a banner ad is measured in its ability to get users to click on it. So a lot of banner ads pull out all the stops, and some go a little too far. “Ads that say ‘Click here to win a free whatever’ are preying on people’s vulnerability,” says Colburn. If you’re interested in an advertiser, type their web address into your browser or go to Google and find their website. “If you want to take an IQ test, go to Google and type in ‘IQ test’ and take a legitimate test rather than clicking on the ad,’’ says McCabe.


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