Internet Sercurity

E-commerce is still continually developing and cannot be expected to be sound, I would still see in its childhood, we are still trying to rectify problems, look at future capabilities and are not fully confident about its stability. e system, people just don't trust the internet despite the rewards it can offer. A message algorithm and hash function are negotiated which secures the communication. 4 Virus Scanning:

Virus scanning today seems to be a basic security measure taken by all online businesses, figure 1 shows that ninety percent are using virus scanning. Thus, answering some of the main security issues that makes many users wary of using e-commerce.

The definition of a firewall according to http://home. Should in the future I decide to buy on online I will make sure the business has a privacy statement and investigate what security systems they have in place before placing any of my personal information on the internet. I don't feel at ease even when giving information just to open an e-mail account or register for an employment agency, who knows where my information has gone and who has got access to it, in some instances I submitted false addresses because I don't trust the system. Essentially viruses can do little harm to a computer system but they can also cause a great deal of destruction, in some instances altering information, wiping or corrupting hard drives which contain important information. We only tend to hear the bad things that happen over the internet, as potential customers we need to hear about the success stories and be reassured that nothing will go wrong because they have the right systems in place. So a sender needs to have trust in the recipient that a 'deal's a deal', they don't want something that is false whereby the deal has not been completed or that the sender rejects the claim that a transaction was ever sent.