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Alex Tan 2E1

 Online Scams &Internet Addiction

Online scamming is very common nowadays & being one of their victims is easy. Scammers send you an e-mail that tries to lure you to a legitimate-looking Web site where you'll be asked to enter personal information. The thing is, 99% of them are fake. If you fall for it, someone is ready to take your Social Security Number and start opening credit card accounts.

Internet addiction is another problem of the youngster nowadays Internet addiction, or, more broadly, overusing of the internet, problematic computer use is excessive computer use that interferes with daily life. Online activities which are done in person would be considered troublesome. Examples are gambling and shopping online. Other such as reading or playing computer games, are troubling only to the extent that these activities interfere with normal life. Addiction of pornography, gaming, blogging and online shopping might be harmful and unsafe to student like us.
Cyber wellness education is very important for us as the internet is a totally full of danger and predator. And I totally agree to the poster of the werewolf that says “beware of the internet”.

Lawrence 2E1

Spams.

Yes I had always received scam and spam emails from unknown senders and it is still going on now. What I did was that I filtered the spam emails and I would report them. I have some ways to share with you guys on how to prevent spam and scam emails based on what I have learned previously when I attended a computer course. We should avoid posting or showing our emails online on public websites. We should always disguise our email address on our webpage, and we could also create a dummy email account for public posting. We should avoid using Hotmail/MSN/AOL as our primary mail provider as spammers just flood all common usernames on widely-used mail systems.

I’ll also share some tips with you on how I filter the spam and scam emails. If you are getting a few spam messages per day, we should just delete them as it isn’t worth our time fixing them up. I would also use built-in spam filters for Web-based email accounts. Many e-mail programs have built-in routines for identifying suspected spam. Hotmail's is particularly useful, probably because Hotmail is such a breeding ground for spam. You'll find Hotmail's Inbox Protector under the Options tab and Yahoo Mail has strong built-in, automatic spam protection.

I have never heard any of my friends telling me about people getting scammed due to the scam emails. I have only heard them talking about being scammed in games. I would advise you to delete an email without opening it when you receive an email from a person that you don’t know and especially when the title looks weird. For this case, an Internet Security virus scanner might be useful.

Koh Jun Sheng 4A3

Internet Addiction

Internet addiction is common around the world. Things might turn out serious. I have a lot of friends who are Internet addicts. They would cancel all their upcoming events and just go home after school just to play online games. I was an internet addict before but I managed to conquer it. Excessive online gaming really caused me trouble. I would scold my parents when they ask me to stop playing, I will try to drag as long as possible so that I could play longer, I always play secretly at home when nobody was around, I went to look for a person in reality when I was unhappy with him/her in a game & I even went bought prepaid cards which costed me about a total of $800 for the game which will enhance the excitement of the game. I really regretted it but if you are an Internet or Gaming addict, don’t worry. I will tell you ways to stop being an addict. It was hard but it is worth it.

Here are some symptoms that I personally feel if you are an internet addict.

1)      You would lose track of time (Amount of time that you were online for)

2)      You would have trouble completing tasks in school or at home. (Always talking about games in school during lessons)

3)      You would neglect your family members and friends.

4)      You would feel guilty and defensive about your internet use.

5)      First thing you do in the morning everyday would be turning on your computer and play games.

If you are an internet addict, these are some ways from me so that you can stop internet addiction. Parents can use these ways too. My parents used some of the ways to stop me from playing.

1)      Set goals and trim down the hours of play time slowly.

2)      Practice the opposite. Change the timelines and try to ask him/her to study before he starts playing.

3)      External stoppers. It would cause the computer to shut down immediately after a few hours of play time & you can set the hours.

4)      Use reminder cards to remind them to stop playing and what would internet addiction lead to.

5)      Ask him/her to go out as a friend. Encourage him to go out with you guys.

6)      Do not talk to him about games and online activities commonly.

7)      If he or she is really uncontrollable. Bring him/her to attend counselling from our school’s counsellor which is Mdm Persis Tan. Uncontrollable would be like attacking & locking up. 

8)      Control yourself. It is worth it… 

Thank you for reading. 

Violet Phua 3E2

Internet Security

Online Purchases

For me, for my whole life I have never made online purchases using a credit card as I knew about the danger of purchasing online. Though, making online purchases is easy and convenient where there is an increase in the number of online shoppers. However, even if we really need to purchase something online we really must be careful and check if there is a security lock on the page before us typing in our credit card’s codes on web. It is because we never know if there are hackers hiding behind the screen waiting for us to type in our credit card’s codes so if we typed in our codes “BINGO” those hackers are able to hack into our account now. Hence, I personally object the idea of making online purchases. It might be an ideal shopping net to hunt for things but the net definitely won’t be an ideal place for paying. Even if there are things for us to purchase online using credit card, we should seek permission from our parents to ensure double safeness from becoming another “victim”.

Violet Phua 3E2

 Internet Security

Click-jacking is a malicious technique of tricking web users into revealing confidential information or taking control of their computer while clicking on seemingly innocuous web pages. Vulnerability across a variety of browsers and platforms, a click-jacking takes the form of embedded code or script that can execute without the user's knowledge, such as clicking on a button that appears to perform another function.

There are more and more web users who got “cheated” by click-jacking each year but definitely, I’m not one of the “victims”. However, when surfing on the net often, there will be some advertisements asking net-surfers to click on it where the advertisement seems no harm. The advertisements that I often saw on web are something like “There’s a VAIO LAPTOP waiting for you!” some users might think that it’s a great opportunities for them to try their luck and see they really can get the laptop as they see no harms to it. There was once, one of my friends who was unsure if she really became a “victim” of click-jacking as she clicked on an unknown website and she even posted all her particulars as required by the site safely, nothing happened to her. She learnt her lesson and became more careful when she need to click on any unknown web.