How to avoid viruses, hackers, scams and other headaches
The Internet is without any doubt the greatest wounder of the modern world, but it does come with some certain threaths and downsides. A communication revolution and increased access to information are great. But not if the person doing the communication is a CON artist after your ONLINE banking details, or the information being accessed is yours- and private. Of course, there are threats to privacy and security in the real world, but on the Internet things rather different. Because the wrongdoer may take from of a piece of software, entitrely invisible to the vistim: from a virus that wipes your hard-drive to keylogger that attempts to keep a record of the username and passwords you type into webpages and then sends them tjo someone on the other side of the world. All of this is rather unsavoury , to say the least. But if we follow some preventative medicine then we can paly it safe.
THE BAD GUYS
The villains that threaten your files and privacy fall into two categories: bad software_ known as malware
and bad humans, known as hackers. Here is some invisible threats that we need to avoid.
MALWARE: ''Malware is short for '' malicious software'', which is pretty well sums up what it is: computer code written with the express purpose of doing something harmful or shady. People often use the word ''virus'' to refer to all of them but there is actully a number of different types of malware which is-
> VIRUSES
> WORMS
>TROJANS( short for Trojan horses)
> SPYWARE
>ADWARE AND THE VILLAIN IS ''HACKERS'' the term 'hacker' is somewhat fuzzy. And its orginal meaning is a legitimate computer programmer ( see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker). But its the popular definition that concerns the people that someone who wants to break into, or medde with your computer.
They may be a professional out to steal your secrets or a ''script kiddy'' playing with a prefab trojan.
As far as we are concerned, it does not matter. We dont want them, or their handiwork , inside your computer.
Here is some Preventative medicine to protect your Internet security and play with safe.
Rule# 1: Avoid running dodgy software
Rule#2: Keep Windows or Mac OS up tp date
Rule#3: Consider switching browser and mail program
Rule#4: Hide behind a firewall
Rule#5: Scan
Rule#6: Enable wireless security
Rule#7:Dont act on virus warnings without checking their validity.
If we follow this Rules we can at least able to protect the invisible threats.
( source: The rough guide to the Internet by P Buckley and D clark)
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