How A Personal Firewall Helps To Protect Your Home Computer From Hackers by Richard Rogers There are two types of firewall available to the home computer user. A hardware firewall is a device which sits between your computer and the internet. At home for example it could reside on a broadband router which is used to share your internet connection with a number of computers.
Viruses and Malicious Software - How to Protect Your Computer by Eldon Martin Malicious software, or malware, is likely the most widespread problem faced by computer users today. As a computer technician, I find that about three out of four jobs I do for home computer users are to remove malware in one form or another.
Malware programs come in several forms: Spyware and adware track your activities when surfing the Internet and bombard you with pop-up advertisements.
Computer Security and Maintenance at No Cost by Thea Westra The following items are security tools that I have loaded on my computer, naturally don't take my word for it. You download all at your own risk of course. I can't guarantee how these will operate on your computer nor your level of computer knowledge to use the tools well.
How Hackers Gain Control of Your Computer by Richard Rogers Your PC has many "ports" which are vulnerable to attack from a hacker. These ports are used to communicate internally with your monitor or printer or externally to the internet. For example, Port 25 is used for receiving incoming email and Port 80 is used to connect to the internet.
How to Keep Your Computer from Spreading Viruses by Eric Koshinsky There are some simple steps you must take to avoid becoming a victim of computer viruses and also stop from spreading viruses to others. Here are some things that you can and should do.Email Issues to watchNever open an E-mail with an attachment you were not expecting.
How I Lost Five Blogs In One Day by Martin Hurley My first happy surprise was a 404 page not found error. That wasn't too
bad because at times, blogger.com has construction work going on.
5 Ways to Protect Information - Clear Recommendations and Direct Links by Alexander Smith It's not the big secret that modern operating systems are not as reliable as they supposed to be. At the same time the most of info is stored on the hard drives nowadays. And every minute all the data can be vanished from your drives because of the system crash or virus attack.
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