Q What is Pharming?

A Pharming is very much like phishing, where a fraudster wants to steal your valuable information. Pharming, however, is when you type in a web address from a dubious email, it takes you to a criminal's website. The criminal's can pretend to be the domain owner and have the bank or company's name redirected to their own servers or, in most cases, a virus or spyware could redirect you to a false site.

How Can I Avoid These Pharming Attacks?

Always run up to date anti-virus and anti-spyware software.

Always be cautious about which programs you run.

Install a firewall.