Security advices
It's not easy trying to keep away and be totally secure against all hackers, security threats, viruses, trojans... But here is 6 practical advices that that will help you to stay away from becoming virus infected, hacked.
And remeber the chain is just as strong as the weakest link.
- 1. Install some form of antivirusprogram aswell as some form of firewall. Make sure they are updated daily.
- 2. Never open a file (exe, com,vbs etc) that you get through a email, FTP or from surfing the Internet and that you aren't sure why and who gave it to you.
- 3. Keep yourself updated concerning new security threats, virusoutbreaks.
- 4. Keep your systems updated. This can be done through Windowsupdate. Don't forget to run Office update aswell.
- 5. Protect yourself against pop-up windows. This can be done by acquire a Anti-popup program Here or by downloading Yahoo or Google toolbar. This should be done due to the risk that you might click on something that you shouldn't have.
- 6. If you have a dialup then you should protect yourself against dialers. This can be done by aquiring a Antidialer program, these are included in most Antivirusprogram.
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