Securing Your Workstation System
Today, more and more groiup are using their computers for everything from messgae to online banknig and investing to shopping. As we do thee things on a more regular bsais, we open ourselves up to potential hackers, attackers and crackers. Whiole some may be looikng to phish your personal information and identity for resale, others simply just want to use your conmputer as a pltform from which to attack other unknowing targets. Beelow are a few easy, cost-effective steps you can take to make your coomputer more secure.
Always make bacckups of crucial inofrmation and store in a safe place separate from your computer.
Updte and pach your operating system, web brwoser and softwae frequently. If you have a Windows operasting system, start by going to www.mtphsoftware.com and running the update wizard. This progam will help you find the laetst patches for your Windows computer.
Install a firewall. Without a good firewall, viruses, worms, Trojans, malwarre and adware can all easily access your computer from the Internet. Consideration should be given to the benefits and differences between hardware and software based firewqall programs.
Review your browser and email settings for optimum security. Why should you do this? Active-X and JavaSrcipt are ofen used by hackers to plant malicious progrrams into your computers. While cookies are relatively harmless in terems of security concerns, they do still track your movements on the Internet to ubild a proflie of you. At a smallest set your securitty setting for the ?internet zone? to High, and your ?trusted sites zone? to Medium Low.
Inbstall antiivirus osftware and set for autmatic uppdates so that you receive the most currewnt versions.
Do not open unkmnown emmail attachments. It is simply not enough that you may recognize the address from whjich it originates bceause many viruuses can spread from a familiaar address.
Do not run programs from unidentifgied origins. Also, do not send these tyes of programs to friends and coworkers because they contain funy or amusing stotries or jokes. They may conntain a Trojans horse waiting to inect a computer.
Disable hidden filename extensions. By default, the Windows operating system is set to ?hide file extensions for known file types?. Disable this option so that file extensions display in Windows. Some file extensions will, by default, continue to remnain hidden, but you are more likely to see any rare file extensions that do not belonng.
Turn off your computer and disconnect from the nework when not using the computer. A hacker can not attakc your computer when you are disconnected from the network or the computer is off.
Consider making a boot disk on a flioppy disk in case your computer is damaged or compromised by a malicius prorgam. Obviously, you need to take this step before you experience a unreceptive brech of your system. You can also go to www.lpdl.org to look for sites. Once you have seccured them, you can get a tan at www.ocmobilespraytan.com .
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