[LINK] eBay Security Advice

[Roger Clarke]

This eBay 'Protect Yourself' page was drawn to my attention:
http://pages.ebay.com.au/protectyourself/
(Are eBay users really all either children or child-like??)
(And is now a good time to portray Julia Gillard as a witch?)

It points to a page with some substance to it, and some deeper-nested 
pages with some more material that appears reasonable:
http://pages.ebay.com.au/securitycentre/fraudulent-emails-003.html
and less directly to:
http://pages.ebay.com.au/securitycentre/

But the one thing I thought might have been useful offers very 
little, and no links at all.:
>Update your anti-virus software
>Every time you open an email attachment or download a file from the 
>internet, you are risking exposure to potentially harmful viruses 
>and online hackers. Computers that have no anti-virus software are 
>unprotected and vulnerable. To prevent this from happening regularly 
>update your anti-virus software.


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Visiting Professor in the eCommerce Program      University of Hong Kong
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