Yesterday, I had to check my account at Comcast (recently changing its name to Xfinity) when I tried to use my Bookmark (Favorite) to access the company's login, the Bookmark no longer brought up the login page.

So, I did a Google search for the company and right away I saw a link for logging in and clicked on it. The page looked normal except there was a strange advertisement on it that I didn't notice until later. Anyway, every time I tried to login on that page, it was denied.

Frustrated, I clicked on the Xfinity logo that immediately went to my personal account without having to login! I concluded my business and logged out.

This morning, I had many Safari pages open up so I began to delete the ones I didn't want to look at. I came across a page from my Norton Internet Protection that I didn't see yesterday telling me that Norton had prevented me from logging in to a suspicious website. The very one that I found during my search for a login page.

If I had logged in to this bogus login page, the scammers would have had my login username and password for Xfinity.com. They could login as me and obtain information on me. This could happen with any website so from now on I'm going to be very careful with my login pages. One way to check is to look carefully at the URL or Universal Resource Locator--address on the World Wide Web. Also known as the IP address at the top of the browser. The safest entry is the company name followed by .com. That should get you the company homepage from which you can login. Sham login pages are to be avoided.

It's getting harder to navigate the Internet all the time. I suggest you get good software like Norton or McAfee to help keep your information from being stolen.