Consumer Protection: Information and Services

Original Posting Date: July 13, 2005
Upgraded Posting Date: April 24, 2008

With the growing number of viruses, hoaxes and scams that seem to be flooding everyday consumers on the Internet, we would like to remind our subscribers about the Consumer Protection: Information and Services section of our Web site. This page is an excellent reference point to provide you with the tools you may need to better protect yourself while online.

To give you a better idea of the type of information you can find, we have listed here a small example of what is available on the Viruses, Hoaxes and Scams section of this site page as well as information about Notices from BTInet.

• Symantec Free Security Check – Provides a free online tool to scan your computer for known viruses as well as a tool to test how secure your computer is against online hackers and Trojan viruses.
• McAfee Security Advice Center – Provides some excellent information on what you can do to better protect yourself from getting infected by a computer virus
• Federal Trade Commission Top Ten Dot-Cons – Provides a list of the 10 most common online cons that you may run across.
• ND State Attorney General - Consumer Information – Interested in what the State of ND Attorney General’s office is seeing affecting the citizens of ND? This page will give you that information. You may want to take a closer look at the “Scam, shams, and flim-flams!” link that appears on this site.
• United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team – Provides excellent information for the computer novice to the technically adept on ways to protect yourself while online.
• Microsoft - Recognizing phishing scams and fraudulent e-mails - Provides information on recognizing phishing scams.

We hope that the information we have made available to our subscribers proves beneficial in making your online experience a safe and enriching one. We thank you for continuing to choose BTInet as your ISP of choice.