Update Mobile Devices Before Shopping Online @McAfeeConsumer

10 Dec 2012 · 1 min

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Robert Siciliano explains how to protect yourself while shopping online during the holidays. Before you buy anything, update your antivirus software and run a full scan on your device. If your phone or computer is infected, disconnect it, update your definitions, and clean it before going back online.

The holiday shopping season is here and people are being warned about dangerous online scams. Experts say mobile devices can make shoppers especially vulnerable to criminal activity. McAfee Online Security expert Robert Siciliano has some tips on how you can safeguard your personal information.
If you inadvertently click a link on your device and you haven't properly protected it, then chances are your machine or your device is going to get infected. Immediately shut that thing down, disconnect disconnected from the internet, and once you turn it back on, update your virus definitions and run antivirus on your machine. Make sure that your antivirus says that your machine isn't affected before you actually connect to the internet. If your machine is infected, then you have to go through a process of removing the actual virus, and there are plenty of searches that will show you exactly how to do that.
He also says on Black Friday, as many as 7 in 10 people will be shopping, and many of them will be shopping online.