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Online Safety For Seniors Phishing

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Staying Safe Online: Understanding and Avoiding Phishing Scams for Seniors

This free computer lesson for seniors and beginners will show you what you need to do to stay safe from a phishing scam. By following the tips in this short video you will avoid some of the common mistakes many computer users make.

Hope you liked this computer lesson for novices. Please recommend us to your friends if you did. Also, why not let us know in the comments below what you are struggling to learn on your computer, iPad or cell phone and we might make a computer lesson video for you.

 

Privacy Settings on Devices and Online: Keeping personal information safe

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This computer lesson for seniors explains about your privacy settings on your devices and apps. What you need to do to keep your personal data and information safer.

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We hope this computer lesson for beginners and the elderly was helpful. We will be taking a deeper dive into this topic in a later video, but for now we wanted to give you the overview.

How Not To Store Passwords

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Security of users’ passwords should be at the forefront of every web developer’s mind. Tom takes us through the insecure ways in which some websites deal with passwords.

 

Computer courses for beginners – Hoax emails and email scams

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Continuing our computer courses for beginners and seniors we have the final computer lesson in our basic computer training, a lesson on hoax emails and email scams. This is a general computer lesson and talks about the broad threat and types of hoax emails that maybe encountered without looking at individual scam emails as these types of computer threats are always changing.

The first thing the computer lesson points out is the need to have good Internet Home Security software, with our preferred provider being McAfee. Having good internet protection will greatly reduce the risk of receiving hoax emails, but unfortunately some may well slip through. The computer lesson then takes you to the website of The London Metropolitan Police and shows their advice on fraud.

The computer lesson is suitable for anyone worldwide, as the risks are international, it is easy to follow and we have provided a link to the Metropolitan Police Fraud page for your own reading should you wish. [Read more…]

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Meganga.com was created to fill a very much needed gap in the provision of computer training for the elderly and beginners alike. We have a passionate belief that you are never too old to learn. Learning to use computers can open up a whole new world to people and seeing and hearing people’s enthusiasm once they do start to learn is a reward in itself.

 
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