Sunday, January 22, 2012

What is pharming - Protection and prevention

Pharming (Pharming) - is an automatic redirection of users (customers) of any Internet resource to other fake site by changing the Domain Name System addresses (DNS).The result is that the victim did not attend the original page, and those who are crooks he slips for all kinds of confidential information.There is a deceptive and this malignancy by modifying, through contamination, the file hosts. Pick up this skriptovirus can either open the compromised e-mail message, or by visiting any or infectious web-server, web-service, etc. (A principle similar to that of conventional viral infection).Comes to life this infection at the time when the user types in the address bar, or that the web-address, which is contained in the mechanism of the virus start (URL of different banks, exchange offices, and similar structures). Once activated, the script redirects the user to pre-defined to be false page, where any action will be analyzed and the client on the basis of the analysis will be performed the appropriate action (program). Typically, the victim user is aware of what has become a victim of pharming is too late, when nothing can be corrected.

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