The world is fast becoming a global village and the number of computer users
keeps rising at an alarming rate. Thousands of people purchase computer on
daily basis but a majority of PC users run to computer technicians few weeks
or months after purchase due to one problem or the other and others will
eventually abandoned their new purchase computers since it was badly affected.
You’ll realize that a majority of computer user who constantly run into such
problems are those that know little or nothing about some basic computer
security tips and how to browse safely online.
This article was brought up to ensure a good health for your PC as well as
your safety online and to help you save some few $$$$ which you could give to
technician due to carelessness.
9 security tips for your PC and safe browsing
Here are 9 security tips for your PC.
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9. Avoid using the same password:
one of the worst mistake web users usually do is using the same password on
all their accounts. At times, people will complaint that using different
password may lead to a loss of some account since it will be difficult to
recall all the passwords of the different account they have. My question goes
does “what if you use the same password and a hackers gets to hack and leak
the password ?” that means s/he has access to all your other accounts since
you used the same password on all your other accounts.
I’ll always advice computer users to avoid using the same password rather,
they should use unique password as seen with this
password manager which Helps protect
your accounts online.
8. Beware of phishing
most online user get scam by this convincing mail were scon artist sent you a
mail claiming to be your bank and would need your credit card details to
update your profile. Online user neglects this security tips and quickly sent
over their credit card details thinking they are sending this information to
their bank. The truth is your bank will never call you to ask for such details
because they already have all your details in their database.
When you see such mail, immediately call your bank for more inquiry, delete
the mail your receive or mark it as spam to avoid receiving such mail in
future. Recall never to follow the link sent to you by these scammers because
it will redirect you to a different page and you may end up disclosing your
credit card details.
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7. Avoid pirated and cracked software’s
download guru’s who obtained craked premium software’s from websites like
4shared, utorrent, pirate bay etc , bloggers / web designers who obtained
crack premium themes and plug-in from websites like wplocker, themelocker etc
are all doing this at their own risk.
Web administrators who own this pirated and cracked website are professional
hackers and will include malicious scripts to the cracked software or theme
you downloaded and once you install this software on your computer, they gain
full access and will control and manipulate your PC/website as they want. They
may go as far as scanning your PCr and collect your bank details since they
now have full access to your computer from the cracked software you downloaded
and installed.
6. Take note of programs you download and install
I’ll advice web users to download programs directly from the official website
rather than doing your download from a third party advertizing link. Let say
you want to download avast antivirus, go directly to their officially website
avast where you will download this antivirus rather than linking to a third
party or some banner ad for the download.
5. Keep your software updated
one of the main reasons software companies constantly update their software is
to help protect and secure these software from hackers. Hackers spent
sleepless night to crack particle software and by the time they are through,
software companies must have release an updated version of what they just
crack. Online user must be vigilant to always update this software on their PC
to prevent their system from being attacked. I’ll advise an automatic update
an all software if possible to be more secure and safe online.
4. Uninstall Java
statistics proves that majority of online user have an insure and outdated
version of java installed on their computers. Since java applets are rare and
very few user need java, it’s advice to uninstalled and completely deleted
this software because it makes your PC more vulnerable to malicious spyware.
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3. Enable firewall and configure it correctly
when you insert a USB flash into a computer that hasn’t got antivirus install,
a windows automatically scan the flash and a pop up warning message display
alerting you of the status of that flash. the pop up message is brought to you
by firewall which is inbuilt in your operating systems and most web user fail
to turn their firewalls on with proper configuration. For you to be safe and
secure online, you must turn-on firewall so it helps hackers or malicious
software from gaining control over your computer.
2. Allow UAC enabled
UAC stands for User account control and enabling UAE means you are in complete
control of the software or apps you install. Once UAC is enabled, its pops up
each time a software or apps is about to install and you can either accept to
run the program or declined the request. Allowing UAC enabled saves as a
security tips to prevent your PC from installing unwanted programs.
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1. Install an antivirus
if you purchase a computer and you know you will never connect this computer
to any peripheral device such as phone, USB flash drive, scanner, printer,
camera etc or if you know you will never connect the computer to the internet.
Then you don’t need an anti virus.
I know it practically impossible to use a computer without connecting to any
of the above mentioned devices. Reasons while you need to install a very good
antivirus to always protect and secure your computer. Connecting to an
external peripheral device means connecting to a vulnerable source since we
cannot dictates viruses and malicious spyware with our naked eyes. An anti
virus will provide the best means of protecting your PC contrary to other
techniques so we must endeavor to install an updated antivirus.
