How To Keep Your Computer Safe

How To Keep Your Computer Safe From Viruses And Malware

You can safe your computer from the two cons: virus & malware. These can affect your system or may destroy the data, files, or other document or maybe it is harmful for your computer system. In order to safe your system or protect it there are some ways which may help you to be aware from these cons depends on your computer system.

• If your system is running Windows-8, you can use Windows-defender, which can help you to rescue from viruses or malware.
• Scan your system with windows defender by selecting scan option from the home tab & then click on ‘scan now’.
• If your system is running Windows-7, then you can ‘run the Microsoft safety scanner which works with antivirus s/w.
• Download ‘Microsoft security-essential’ for free& after this use s/w to run a scan of your system.
• If you are not connect to the internet then you can download ‘Windows-defender offline’ from another computer system & create a CD or DVD with that software on it. Then restart your computer & scan it in order for unwanted-software.
• You can also install or download the antivirus s/w like Quick heal, Kasper-sky antivirus, Avast-antivirus s/w or any other & keep to update your antivirus software.
• Keep your system & the browser which you use up-to-date.
• Install the antivirus or other software’s from trusted source.

How To Keep Your Computer Safe From Hackers

Hackers may hack your system in order to get some information, which may harm your computer system. In this way security & utilities, s/w is the way, which may protect your system. By using some steps or phases, you can keep your system safe.

• If you are use internet then before it install the antivirus software & install a firewall. It is a system, which is designed to stop unauthorized access from the network & can be implemented in hardware and software. All the messages/conversations pass through firewall, which investigate each message & segment/block those that do not match with the criteria of security.
• By using antivirus software’s or updating them, hackers can use this in order to access the other users’ computer system.
• By choosing passwords, which may be strong or good, helps you to aware from the attacks of hackers. It also has some pattern, which users must follow.
• User’s have to use internet email account as his/her primary account because some email-programs automatically save email attachments it results in that the virus enter in your system when you check your email id.

How To Keep Your Computer Safe On a Public Network

If you use public networks-Wi-Fi are not safe, if they have password you are sharing a network with other many people it may results in your data is atrisk. So in order to safe your system from public network, you can follow some steps:

• Turn-off sharing mode: when you use public network you must have to turn off the sharing mode.
• By enabling Firewall, you can settings or allow the access by clicking on ‘allow program or feature’ mode in Windows.
• Use HTTPS & SSL.
• Avoid automatically connecting to the Wi-Fi hotspot,
• Confirm network name & protect your passwords,
• Turn-on your firewall & keep up-to-date antivirus software’s.
• Run antivirus software.

How To Keep Your Computer Safe From Phishing And Worms

• Protect your computer-system with a strong/bold security s/w,
• Use ISP(Internet service provider)security conscious,
• Be alert when you use peer-to-peer file sharing mode,
• Back-up your files, data regularly,
• Aware of current-virus
• Do not answer/responds to those mails, which request for your personal data & never click on those links, which emailed you.
• Do not give your user-name & password to any illegal source.