Please be aware of surveys on the forums while some maybe legit giving any Real Life information can compromise your SL account please allow me to explain. Some surveys require giving of Real Life information such as Name, Email, Signature for consent. Also sending money through third parties like PayPal discloses your RL name & Email. While some surveys maybe 100% legit it is possible that some are not legit lets assume the following flaws with Second Life. 1. When you create a second Life Account, You do not have to give any RL Identifying information you just create the account. This means that if you go inactive and dont use the account for a long time or someone Troll calls Linden Lab and gives them a false story that they do not remember the secret question this can lead to a compromised account. Now I know people will doubt me that this can't happen, Well it can and its why I encourage Linden Lab to add Requirement for RL Information on the account when signing up and keep records. If you want to add additional security to your account its advised you use a strong Secret Question, and put your RL Information on File, as well as notfy Linden Lab that they are not to allow anyone access to your account without knowing the secret question, or verification of all correct Real Life information you have provided. Other Common Tactics. . Be aware of fake links sent to you in SL, if you are a merchant someone sending a link to marketplace claiming your items were stolen. . Be aware of Fakse Suspensions/ban emails. . Never Download a viewer not on the TPV list site from any other source. . Disable Media, Cooking, And Java in SL when visiting other peoples parcels you dont know. . Do not wear Huds, or Rez Objects you do not know in SL with scripts turned on. . Do not Trust KingGoon, This is the biggest CopyBot on google search engines every viewer he releases has a password logger, and they steal and ruin every merchant in Second Life. .Use your brains if something seems fishy such as a Hud, Or item you get in SL it likely is. Many people do not understand the Hud Thing, The problem with huds is that there is a RP community based sim I wont give the name of because of rules but have the link of their video made public. Well the hud has IP loggers tracks alternate accounts without asking consent, and harvests information of all known accounts because of their so called Griefer issues they put this coding into their hud to track alternate accounts of players. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaA930nxI5w UC Meter, Do not use it if you don't want Alternate Accounts compromised, possibly be chatlogged, or other malicious activity. ever been "IM" in SL by an admin saying "What are you doing here" "Getting Banned on ALT from a RP sim without reason on an ALT" "Ever Had admins tell you they already had logs of "Local Chat" This is why spyware in your RP Huds. If you are fine with it by all means use whatever hud you want with "Spyware" /Malicious Activity. I will not. By wearing any hud in Second Life including Unity Core you can give away your alternate accounts, ans possibly compromise your SL account through Browser Hijackers/Phishing. If not careful. Google is your friend for researching everything I have just talked about, Just look up anyones Second Life name on google, Hud, or any other service provided in SL to make sure it is safe and legit before using the service if you find something unsafe don't risk your SL identy or account. With this said Linden Lab still needs to add IP verify like Guild Wars 2 has to help prevent Phishing. On something totally off Topic. . Do not use Red Zone, CDS, or Any Network Banned System, Heck don't even use anything with malicious scripts because you are only helping the creators of these systems spy on other residents, They will not stop griefers, and they will not stop CopyBot. There are ways to limit griefers on your Parcel, such as. . Parcel Allow List/Sim Allow List . Turn off Build/Script . Age Kicker but can harm legit new people. . Null Profile Kicker Bot.