Question: Written Work #1: Case Study Read and understand the text. Answer the questions on the next page. WHAT THE? - Online Scams and Identity Theft

Written Work #1: Case Study Read and understand the text. Answer the questions on the next page. WHAT THE? - Online Scams and Identity Theft "Well, I downloaded a lot of stuff to my computerheaps of stuff, actually: music, programs, games. I guess, in the back of my mind, I've always been worried about security, but I didn't think I could do anything about it or that anything that bad could happen to me. 1 guess when you're connected and doing frequent downloads, you never know what's coming down your phone line. One day, I downloaded this program, and after that, my computer seemed to be a lot slower. It was taking forever for pages to load, and even normal things like writing an email or writing a Word document would take a long time. I didn't think too much of it 'cos my computer was getting old, and I had heaps of stuff on it. But then my homepage got changed to some free download site, and when I checked my internet settings, I found that they'd all been changed. But things kept on getting worse. Whenever | went online, 1 got bombarded with pop-ups, and, like, my computer would just crash, and I would have to manually reset it. Then things got serious. I couldn't log in to my email account, and I discovered that someone was using my internet banking. I had anti-virus software installed on my computer, but it just wasn't picking up anything. What I didn't realize at the time was that when I'd downloaded this free program a couple of months ago, a smaller program downloaded and installed itself onto my computer. But I had no idea. This spyware program monitored all my internet activity, and the keylogger recorded all the keystrokes I made on the computer, such as my login, my passwords, and all the emails I sent to my mates. It then sent all this information to the software developer. I ended up taking my machine to a computer spedialist, who was able to find and remove all the spyware. I had to contact my bank and my Interet Service Provider (ISP) to change my account details. You know, even free stuff comes at a cost nowadays, and 1 know it sounds corny, but if it's too good to be true, then it probably is. Before I download anything now, I make sure there's no adware or spyware associated with it, and 1 read the user agreement statement. There are websites online that, sort of, help you out with this and can offer great reviews and advice on the program and company that you're downloading from. If it's free, there's usually a catch. I guess I learned the hard way.\" Brian According to the text, give possible answers to the following questions: (8-10 sentences) Brian complains that his virus protection doesn't work. What do you think has gone wrong? Choose at least three of the mentioned online safety tips and explain. (5 sentences each tip)
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