What is the safety alert letter from the Telekom means
The Telekom is one of the largest telecommunications companies. You get to global Internet activities. In case of suspicious Online activity, you will be warned of their customers, or security organizations. You may notice them yourself. The security warning in the letter box, unfortunately, is not uncommon:
- Not only in the CHIP Forum surprised Telekom customers often about the security warning in the letter box.
- Telekom customers will be warned that they are being attacked by Trojans, or apparently unauthorised people to use your E-Mail Account.
- According to the Telecom tens of thousands of customers per month every month "" it is only via E-Mail and then by post warned.
- For example, gahackte E-Mail can be abused-Account, to Spam send E-Mails to. Or an infected PC is participating in unnoticed to a cyber attack, like a DDoS attack.
- NTT, which is the third largest telecommunications company in the world, wants to be by 2020 Innovation GTIP in the market, the sources and destinations of global hacker attacks detects. So, mainly the large corporations security to receive alerts in real time and not only know that you were attacked, but by whom.
What to do?
If in doubt, ask first, when Telecom Support , if the letter is real and get further information about infestation date, or the exact nature of the threat. Only your E-Mail has been hacked Account, it can be enough to change the password. Contain your mail messages, however, user data from other sites, you should change all the passwords. The Telekom has diagnosed you in the letter or via Support a virus attack, you need time and perseverance. Follow these steps:
- Put together a list of sites which you have logged in from your PC.
- Together seek, if appropriate, your customer data and TAN lists.
- Now you have to change the PC to a trusted Person such as a friend or family member, your user data.
- You are best to start with Online Banking and then go to Websites that have a collection authorization, such as PayPal and Amazon.
- Download also best a minimum of one Rescue Disk, for example, from Avira or Kaspersky download.
- Now you have to clean home all of the PCs on your Telecom connection over the Internet.
- You first disconnect from the Internet. Now start your Computer from the Rescue CD.
- You backup your most important data and run a virus scan.
- Ideally, your PC is completely new to. Because even if one of your virus scanners find it, you are definitely virus-free.
- In the future safer, you should set up your PC as an admin, but a user account with limited Rights set up.
For your future computer use, we recommend a series of security tools, the the danger of Malware and hacker attacks is minimized.
