Ereviewguide.com Helps Users Overcome Social Media and Search Engine Trust Issues

Unscrupulous marketers and spammers are exploiting marketing methods and viral marketing to spread their garbage all over the internet.

Bellevue CA, CA (prHWY.com) February 21, 2012 - (Bellevue, CA, 02/21/12) - As the internet matures into differing stages from website-centered publishing models to user-generated publishing models to social media publishing models, internet marketing's evolution has accompanied these changes as well. Whatever is changing in terms of how search engines index information and how social network sites allow people to share information, marketers are quick to exploit their features to get traffic to their websites. While the vast majority of marketers are legitimate or ethical individuals that use social media marketing and search engine marketing to generate legitimate traffic, hackers and spammers have used the trends in the evolution of search engines and social media websites to proliferate attack websites that install malware, spyware and viruses. Ereviewguide.com, the internet's leading authority on consumer reviews and technology issues, has released a guide to help consumers regain their trust in search engines. The guide is located at http://www.ereviewguide.com/news/2012/02/19/how-to-use-search-engines-or-social-networks-and-avoiding-malware/.

Your real protection

"Search engines and social media websites are quickly evolving to protect consumers against spammers and scammers who would attack websites to compromise end user's computers. However, at the end of the day, these search engines and social media/network sites cannot evolve fast enough. The only real protection is truly in the hands of the end users themselves," said Oliver Thompson, media relations officer for ereviewguide.com. Indeed even with all the technical updates of search engines and social media sites, black hat marketers and other unscrupulous flares will always find a way to exploit vulnerabilities to get people to their attack sites. These attack sites then turn the poor user's computers into spam-relay machines or worst use them for spreading viruses and other malware online and to do distributed denial of service attacks.

Restore your trust

The truth of the matter is that as quickly as vulnerability gets shut down, hackers would identify another. A lot of these vulnerabilities are technical in nature. Sadly, there is one vulnerability that is easy to fix, but at the same time impossible to fix. What is this vulnerability? The user's information level.

"The sad truth is that there is still a reservoir of users online that would click on any link shared by their supposed friends at social network sites or a link that appears on search engine results and the results can be very disastrous," said Thompson. The key vulnerability in this situation is psychological. Hackers and spammers exploit social network's fulfillment of the very human need for affirmation and friends to proliferate malware links. Similarly they hijack the legitimacy, authority and trust placed in search engines to direct us to attack site links.

Ereviewguide.com's resource guide steps users through important and effective tips that they can follow to avoid getting their computers compromised. Follow these tips today and restore your trust in search engine results and social network websites.

About eReviewGuide.com

eReviewGuide http://www.ereviewguide.com/ is a highly respectable source of software reviews, guides, tips, resources and information online today. eReviewGuide also offers industry news and community forums apart from online reviews. This consumer guide aims to provide assistance to customers and users looking for software or online services, so they can make smart choices, whether in the matter of pre-sale or making actual purchases. Those who are planning to download an Antivirus Software may take a closer look at the review guide and consumer tips on the site. Now, buyers can easily check which products are best suited for their personal or individual needs, just by checking out reviews and information published on eReviewGuide.com.

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Tag Words: software, utilities, internet

Categories: Computers

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