Securing Your Computer System

Today, more and more individuals use their computers, from online banking to investing and shopping. We open ourselves to prospective hackers, attackers and crackers when we do these activities more regularly. Although some people may want to redeem their personal data and identity, others just want to utilize your computer as a platform for attacking other unexperienced targets. 

Below are some straightforward, economical measures to make your computer safer.

1. Always make crucial information backups and store them separately from your computer in a safe place.
2.Frequently update and patch your operating system, web browser and software. If you have a Windows operating system, go to www.windowsupdate.microsoft.com and run the wizard. This software can help you locate your Windows machine with the latest patches. Go to www.officeupdate.microsoft.com to find probable Office programs patches, too.
3.Set up a firewall. All viruses, worms, trojans, malware and adware can enter your computer via the Internet without a robust firewall. The benefits and contrasts between hardware and software-based firewall solutions should be considered.
4.To optimize security, review your browser and e-mail settings. Why should you do that? Why should you? Hackers often utilize Active-X and JavaScript to place dangerous programs on your PCs. While cookies are reasonably safe, they are nonetheless tracking your travels on the Internet in order to create a profile of you. Set your "internet zone" security to High and your "trusted sites zone" to Medium Low to a minimum.
5.Install antivirus software and configure auto-updates to get the latest versions.
6.Do not open unknown attachments to email. Just don't know the address it comes from because many viruses can propagate from a familiar location.
7.Do not run unknown origin programs. Also, do not send these types of programmes, since they include entertaining or funny anecdotes or jokes, to friends and colleagues. They may include a horse of Trojans waiting for a PC to infect.
8.Disable hidden extensions of filename. The Windows operating system defaults to "hide file extensions for known file types." Deactivate this option to see file extensions on Windows. Some file extensions will remain hidden by default, but you will encounter strange file extensions which do not belong.
9. Turn off your computer and while the computer is not in use, unplug from the network. When you are disconnected from the network or when the computer is off, a hacker cannot attack your computer.
Consider booting a disk on a floppy if your machine has a harmful application damaged or impaired. 

Obviously, before you experience a hostile system breach, you need to take this step.