Berbagai cara dilakukan oleh hacker untuk berusaha menguasai dan mengurasi isi rekening e-gold Anda. Berikut ini adalah berbagai cara untuk melindungi e-gold Anda:
1. Gunakan komputer pribadi, jangan meminjamkan komputer kepada orang lain, tanpa pengawasan Anda.
2. Gunakanlah min 15 kombinasi huruf (besar dan kecil), angka dan tanda baca untuk passphrase e-gold Anda. Jangan gunakan passphrase yg mudah ditebak spt nama, tgl ulang tahun, dsb.
3. Biasakan menulis passphrase dengan SRK.
4. Jangan simpan passphrase di harddisk, anda bisa menulis di kertas misalnya.
5. Ganti passphrase 1 minggu sekali.
6. Selalu login dari bookmark/favourite browser Anda. Pastikan: https://www.e-gold.com/acct/login.html
7. Jangan pernah Anda login dari link yang diberikan oleh e-mail, walaupun e-mail tersebut seolah-olah datangnya dari e-gold. E-gold.com tidak pernah mengirimkan e-mail berisi link kepada Anda.
8. Hindarilah untuk login e-gold dari tempat public, misalnya warnet, dsb. Pastikan Anda menggunakan SRK dan mengganti passphrase Anda, jika Anda harus akses rekening e- gold Anda dari tempat umum.
9. Sentinel (Accent PIN) di setting ke high (detect IP change) dan enable (browser change)
10. Bila anda melakukan spend e-gold dari web lain (misal web HYIP), pastikan url dimulai dengan https dan simbol gembok terkunci (secure).
11. Pastikan Anda menggunakan operating system, seperti Win-XP, yg ASLI (Original).
12. Install anti spyware dan anti virus di komputer (no crack software)
13. Jika memungkinkan aktifkan Firewall
14. Autoupdate antispyware, antivirus, dan windows anda.
15. Scan spyware dan virus minimal seminggu sekali (full scan)
16. Selalu log out setelah mengakses account anda.
17. Jangan mengunjungi situs yg aneh2 spt porno, crack, mp3, dsb.
18. jika Anda curiga komputer anda terkena virus, jangan segan-segan untuk melakukan full format!
Thursday, 23 August 2007
Monday, 20 August 2007
Protecting your gold,
Basic security measures
One important issue much on our minds these days is security of our assets. Particularly online.
With the advent of the internet came scammers, fraudsters and other morally deficient persons. It
is important therefore that you take steps to protect your hard earned gold!
Protecting your accounts can be summed up in the following basic measures.
1. Ensure you have at least one anti-virus software on your machine. There is a link at the
end of this book you can use to get free anti-virus software.
2. Ensure you have at least one firewall on your machine. There is a link at the end of this
book you can use to get a free firewall for the computer.
3. Do not give out your passphase’s to anyone. Including your family unless you trust
them totally.
4. Do not access your accounts from any other computer than the one to normally use. It
is absolute insanity to go to an internet shop and use the machines there. They are
invariably riddled with software that can capture your Passphase and other information
about you. Software such as viruses, Trojan, Key loggers and the like (definitions of
these are given under definitions after this section) are designed to capture your
account details..
5. Some people access their accounts from work and from university machines. Again
this is foolhardy when you consider that systems people and those that work for them
which may be contractors from other companies also can access your machine account
at Uni and work and possible capture the information you enter.
6. Never type in your Passphase or passwords. Use either the system given on the web
site, such as SRK with e-gold for example, or copy and paste from somewhere else.
Preferably NOT from your machine.
7. Do not keep your passwords or passphase’s on the same machine you log in from.
Some people keep their passwords on a floppy disc and copy and paste from that.
Using the MS password container is not particularly safe either. Best option is to
remember it. If you can’t, keep it in a safe place and separate from your login in
process. Much as you would with your pin number and credit or debit card.
8. Never Never Never access your account from an email. Even if it apparently comes
from the company which holds your account. In practice e-gold, GoldMoney and the
others will NOT send you an email in which they ask you to go to your account from a
link in that email. The same, incidentally, applies to banks and other services in which
you may have an account containing stored value. IF you get an email and you are
unsure and wish to check. Close the email down and access your account from the
usual link that you use in the browser. Usually in your Bookmarks or Favorites or the
browser equivalent.
9. When you have finished with your account always log off in the correct manner. Do
not just shut down the browser.
10. Lastly, apply common sense to the handling of your accounts. How do you treat the
security of your credit cards, cash you carry, your bank account? Your gold account
should be at least, if not more, secure. Your security depends utterly on you. If you
don’t take the above precautions then you cannot winge to someone else about how
“All my gold has been stolen from my account”. Fully apply the above and you are
more likely to keep your golden nest egg!
One important issue much on our minds these days is security of our assets. Particularly online.
With the advent of the internet came scammers, fraudsters and other morally deficient persons. It
is important therefore that you take steps to protect your hard earned gold!
Protecting your accounts can be summed up in the following basic measures.
1. Ensure you have at least one anti-virus software on your machine. There is a link at the
end of this book you can use to get free anti-virus software.
2. Ensure you have at least one firewall on your machine. There is a link at the end of this
book you can use to get a free firewall for the computer.
3. Do not give out your passphase’s to anyone. Including your family unless you trust
them totally.
4. Do not access your accounts from any other computer than the one to normally use. It
is absolute insanity to go to an internet shop and use the machines there. They are
invariably riddled with software that can capture your Passphase and other information
about you. Software such as viruses, Trojan, Key loggers and the like (definitions of
these are given under definitions after this section) are designed to capture your
account details..
5. Some people access their accounts from work and from university machines. Again
this is foolhardy when you consider that systems people and those that work for them
which may be contractors from other companies also can access your machine account
at Uni and work and possible capture the information you enter.
6. Never type in your Passphase or passwords. Use either the system given on the web
site, such as SRK with e-gold for example, or copy and paste from somewhere else.
Preferably NOT from your machine.
7. Do not keep your passwords or passphase’s on the same machine you log in from.
Some people keep their passwords on a floppy disc and copy and paste from that.
Using the MS password container is not particularly safe either. Best option is to
remember it. If you can’t, keep it in a safe place and separate from your login in
process. Much as you would with your pin number and credit or debit card.
8. Never Never Never access your account from an email. Even if it apparently comes
from the company which holds your account. In practice e-gold, GoldMoney and the
others will NOT send you an email in which they ask you to go to your account from a
link in that email. The same, incidentally, applies to banks and other services in which
you may have an account containing stored value. IF you get an email and you are
unsure and wish to check. Close the email down and access your account from the
usual link that you use in the browser. Usually in your Bookmarks or Favorites or the
browser equivalent.
9. When you have finished with your account always log off in the correct manner. Do
not just shut down the browser.
10. Lastly, apply common sense to the handling of your accounts. How do you treat the
security of your credit cards, cash you carry, your bank account? Your gold account
should be at least, if not more, secure. Your security depends utterly on you. If you
don’t take the above precautions then you cannot winge to someone else about how
“All my gold has been stolen from my account”. Fully apply the above and you are
more likely to keep your golden nest egg!
Friday, 10 August 2007
Exchange Providers
In the subsequent pages of this section is detailed information about various Exchange Providers.
The exchange providers perform a valuable service in that they enable one to fund and cash out
one’s gold. Although they all perform the same function, each one is different and deals, not only
with gold currency but, in many cases, with other digital currencies as well. They each have
various methods of payment they accept, are based in different currencies and have varying
charges for their service.
Many of them belong to the Global Digital Currency Association (DGCA)
and you will recognize that by the DGCA logo they display on their sites. The Global Digital
Currency Association (GDCA) is a trade association of online currency operators, exchangers,
merchants and users. It is their stated goal to further the interests of the industry as a whole and
help with fighting fraud and other illegal activities, arbitrate disputes and act as escrow agent
when and where required. They believe in self-regulation and have developed a reputation ranking
system and arbitration procedures to help users and operators to succeed in the industry. Logos of
the DGCA look will look something like this:
There are many colors designating a ranking with the GDCA. I recommend you look
them up.
In addition when you see the logo on any site, always check back to the DGCA to ensure
that site is registered. There are sites which ‘lift’ logos and place them on their site to gain
credence with the consumer.
Details about some of the more established exchange providers are listed here. These exchange
providers have been around almost as long as the earliest gold issuer (e-gold) and have proven
their reliability and service levels through time. You can check the currency issuers sites and the
GDCA for more if you wish but the following are recommended.
They are:
GoldNow
Spacegold
Able Gold
London Gold Exchange
Anygoldnow
Icegold
Sydney Gold Sales
GitGold
e-forex
Gold-Cash.biz
TheGoldShop
Goldcurrencies
The exchange providers perform a valuable service in that they enable one to fund and cash out
one’s gold. Although they all perform the same function, each one is different and deals, not only
with gold currency but, in many cases, with other digital currencies as well. They each have
various methods of payment they accept, are based in different currencies and have varying
charges for their service.
Many of them belong to the Global Digital Currency Association (DGCA)
and you will recognize that by the DGCA logo they display on their sites. The Global Digital
Currency Association (GDCA) is a trade association of online currency operators, exchangers,
merchants and users. It is their stated goal to further the interests of the industry as a whole and
help with fighting fraud and other illegal activities, arbitrate disputes and act as escrow agent
when and where required. They believe in self-regulation and have developed a reputation ranking
system and arbitration procedures to help users and operators to succeed in the industry. Logos of
the DGCA look will look something like this:
There are many colors designating a ranking with the GDCA. I recommend you look
them up.
In addition when you see the logo on any site, always check back to the DGCA to ensure
that site is registered. There are sites which ‘lift’ logos and place them on their site to gain
credence with the consumer.
Details about some of the more established exchange providers are listed here. These exchange
providers have been around almost as long as the earliest gold issuer (e-gold) and have proven
their reliability and service levels through time. You can check the currency issuers sites and the
GDCA for more if you wish but the following are recommended.
They are:
GoldNow
Spacegold
Able Gold
London Gold Exchange
Anygoldnow
Icegold
Sydney Gold Sales
GitGold
e-forex
Gold-Cash.biz
TheGoldShop
Goldcurrencies
1MDC
1MDC is somewhat different in that it is not actually a gold currency issuer but rather a ‘holding‘
company. I have included this as it is:
A secure method of holding and retaining one’s gold
A very simple system to use.
No Storage Fees
Very private
In fact, 1MDC is simply e-gold moved to a collective e-gold account and with a simple doubleentry
bookkeeping system on top: this has nothing to do with banking or risk, 1mdc does not
"use" the grams for anything or "invest" in anything. All the grams are there all the time. Exactly
as e-gold stores gold bars, 1mdc stores e-gold. Additionally, to promote 1mdc, 1mdc even pays
the storage fees on the overall quantity of 1mdcGrams, so you don't have to! Very simple.
You can even spend from one 1MDC account to another, avoiding the transfer fees normally
associated with e-gold transfers. The gold of course stays in the 1MDC account and it is just a
simple transfer of ownership of that gold from one 1MDC account to another 1MDC account. A
sort of e-gold within e-gold you might say. But without the charges.
So lets look at how we open a 1MDC account. Firstly you will need an e-gold account of course.
If you have not done so already you will need to open an e-gold account and fund it through an
exchange provider.
Here is the 1MDC screen you will see when you go to https://www.1mdc.com/
There is more information about 1MDC if you scroll down but the three main links are at the top
left main screen. Log in and Create Account. Here we will select Create Account and get the
following screen.
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32
As you can see I have entered some details. An e-gold account, some initials, a password which
one enters twice to check for any errors. I chose a PIN number. One does not type this in but
selects it from the 4 drop down boxes. (Remember this PIN, you will use it along with your
password and initials to log in to your account)
Then select Create Account. The following screen will come up.
This confirms your account has been created. With 1MDC you do not get an email so be sure you
have retained your login details.
Gold Currencies and How to Use Them
33
To log in you go to the Login Link at the top left. And your log in screen will look like this:
Here you enter your e-gold account, initials, password and select your PIN number from the pad
as shown. The moment you select the last PIN number you account page will come up thus:
This is the main screen from which you work. The left side of the screen shows the current status
of your 1MDC account. The right side contains the links you use to perform the usual actions.
You can ‘spend’ 1mdc to another 1MDC account holder, get your history, move, or bail, e-gold to
your 1mdc account or move, un-bail, e-gold from your 1mdc account to your e-gold account.
To bail in or out gold from 1mdc you select the appropriate link and you will be taken to the
relevant page where you simply fill in the amount in grams of gold you wish to bail in or out of
your 1mcd account.
1mdc is easy to operate and a good place to store your gold.
company. I have included this as it is:
A secure method of holding and retaining one’s gold
A very simple system to use.
No Storage Fees
Very private
In fact, 1MDC is simply e-gold moved to a collective e-gold account and with a simple doubleentry
bookkeeping system on top: this has nothing to do with banking or risk, 1mdc does not
"use" the grams for anything or "invest" in anything. All the grams are there all the time. Exactly
as e-gold stores gold bars, 1mdc stores e-gold. Additionally, to promote 1mdc, 1mdc even pays
the storage fees on the overall quantity of 1mdcGrams, so you don't have to! Very simple.
You can even spend from one 1MDC account to another, avoiding the transfer fees normally
associated with e-gold transfers. The gold of course stays in the 1MDC account and it is just a
simple transfer of ownership of that gold from one 1MDC account to another 1MDC account. A
sort of e-gold within e-gold you might say. But without the charges.
So lets look at how we open a 1MDC account. Firstly you will need an e-gold account of course.
If you have not done so already you will need to open an e-gold account and fund it through an
exchange provider.
Here is the 1MDC screen you will see when you go to https://www.1mdc.com/
There is more information about 1MDC if you scroll down but the three main links are at the top
left main screen. Log in and Create Account. Here we will select Create Account and get the
following screen.
Gold Currencies and How to Use Them
32
As you can see I have entered some details. An e-gold account, some initials, a password which
one enters twice to check for any errors. I chose a PIN number. One does not type this in but
selects it from the 4 drop down boxes. (Remember this PIN, you will use it along with your
password and initials to log in to your account)
Then select Create Account. The following screen will come up.
This confirms your account has been created. With 1MDC you do not get an email so be sure you
have retained your login details.
Gold Currencies and How to Use Them
33
To log in you go to the Login Link at the top left. And your log in screen will look like this:
Here you enter your e-gold account, initials, password and select your PIN number from the pad
as shown. The moment you select the last PIN number you account page will come up thus:
This is the main screen from which you work. The left side of the screen shows the current status
of your 1MDC account. The right side contains the links you use to perform the usual actions.
You can ‘spend’ 1mdc to another 1MDC account holder, get your history, move, or bail, e-gold to
your 1mdc account or move, un-bail, e-gold from your 1mdc account to your e-gold account.
To bail in or out gold from 1mdc you select the appropriate link and you will be taken to the
relevant page where you simply fill in the amount in grams of gold you wish to bail in or out of
your 1mcd account.
1mdc is easy to operate and a good place to store your gold.
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