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● Identity Control is very effective in blocking keylogger spyware. This type of

malicious applications records your keystrokes and sends them over the Internet

to a malicious person (hacker). The hacker can find out sensitive information from

the stolen data, such as bank account numbers and passwords, and use it to gain

personal benefits.

Supposing such an application manages to avoid antivirus detection, it cannot

send the stolen data by e-mail, web or instant messages if you have created

appropriate identity protection rules.

● Identity Control can protect you from phishing attempts (attempts to steal personal

information). The most common phishing attempts make use of a deceiving e-mail

to trick you into submitting personal information on a fake web page.

For example, you may receive an e-mail claiming to be from your bank and

requesting you to urgently update your bank account information. The e-mail

provides you with a link to the web page where you must provide your personal

information. Although they seem to be legitimate, the e-mail and the web page

the misleading link directs you to are fake. If you click the link in the e-mail and

submit your personal information on the fake web page, you will disclose this

information to the malicious persons who organized the phishing attempt.

If appropriate identity protection rules are in place, you cannot submit personal

information (such as your credit card number) on a web page unless you have

explicitly defined an exception for the respective web page.

● Using Identity Control rules, you can prevent your children from giving out personal

information (such as the home address or phone number) to people they met on

the Internet. Moreover, if you create rules to protect your credit card, they cannot

use it to buy things online without your consent.

20.2.2. Configuring Identity Control

If you want to use Identity Control, follow these steps:

1. Open BitDefender, click Options in the upper-right corner of the window and

choose Expert View.

2. Go to Privacy Control > Identity.

3. Make sure Identity Control is enabled.

Note

If the option cannot be configured, go to the Status tab and enable Privacy Control.

4. Create rules to protect your sensitive data. For more information, please refer to

“Creating Identity Protection Rules” (p. 117).

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