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Is My PC Vulnerable on the Internet? (Page 1 of 2)
Think about this: Is a simple antivirus application enough to protect your PC against all threats?
No longer are viruses the only threat on the internet. In recent years other threats have evolved which include spyware, adware, hacking, identity theft, information theft, pop-ups and the loss of information.
Lets begin with the basics. We all need to protect our PC in the same way we protect our home, car and bank account. We wouldnt give a stranger the keys to our car, home or bank account now would we. If you dont protect your PC it is like giving the keys to a stranger and letting him/her have full access to your PC. Once the stranger has the keys they can snoop around and take whatever they want. I know, your thinking how can they do this, my computer is in my house and my doors are locked. Well, today you can be anywhere in the world and access someones computer via the internet. Since the introduction of cable modems and DSL everyones PC is online all the time and accessible.
Why do I need to protect my PC, I dont keep any important information on it? Ask yourself a couple of questions.
1. Do I bank online? 2. Do I shop online? 3. Do I create documents, spreadsheets? 4. Do I let other people use my PC? 5. Do I download music, files onto my PC?
If you answered yes to any of these questions then your PC is vulnerable. If you bank online then you are sending personal confidential information to your bank via the Internet. For Example: Lets say you are infected with spyware and you are typing in your account number plus password. A spyware installation can record key strokes and then send them off to a site on the internet. Now the person who setup the site has your account number and password to your bank. Here is one more example, if you answered yes to I let other people use my pc, here is what happens. The other person decides that they like this new cool piece of software. They download and double click on the exe, msi or whatever installs the software. The adware, spyware or virus installs. Now the infection is installed and now it can start stealing confidential information or cause havoc on your PC. You get onto the PC as always, since you dont know this has happened and start doing what you always do, type documents, go to chat rooms, do your banking online, reconcile your banking with quicken and all this time your confidential information is stolen and you are completely unaware that this occurred.
The million dollar question, what do I do? Well, you can follow this approach. 1. Install a Spyware application and install and configure correctly. If you already have spyware application installed make sure it is up to date and make sure that is configured properly. 2. Install an Adware application and install and configure properly. If you already have adware application installed make sure it is up to date and make sure that is configured properly. 3. Install an AntiVirus application and install and configure properly. If you already have antivirus application installed make sure it is up to date and make sure that is configured properly. 4. Install backup software, why because if something does get through your defenses or delete something by accident you always have a way of retrieving the information. You should try to backup your system at least every other day. 5. Install Encryption software. This software will encrypt files like word docs, spreadsheets, banking file on quicken. This way if someone does steal your information they will not be able to read it. 6. Install a Firewall. The Firewall can either be software or hardware based. I would install both especially if you bring your laptop with you and connect to the internet at different locations. The Firewall will block hackers trying to scan your system while you are on the Internet.
Is My PC Vulnerable on the Internet? (Page 1 of 2)
Think about this: Is a simple antivirus application enough to protect your PC against all threats?
No longer are viruses the only threat on the internet. In recent years other threats have evolved which include spyware, adware, hacking, identity theft, information theft, pop-ups and the loss of information.
Lets begin with the basics. We all need to protect our PC in the same way we protect our home, car and bank account. We wouldnt give a stranger the keys to our car, home or bank account now would we. If you dont protect your PC it is like giving the keys to a stranger and letting him/her have full access to your PC. Once the stranger has the keys they can snoop around and take whatever they want. I know, your thinking how can they do this, my computer is in my house and my doors are locked. Well, today you can be anywhere in the world and access someones computer via the internet. Since the introduction of cable modems and DSL everyones PC is online all the time and accessible.
Why do I need to protect my PC, I dont keep any important information on it? Ask yourself a couple of questions.
1. Do I bank online? 2. Do I shop online? 3. Do I create documents, spreadsheets? 4. Do I let other people use my PC? 5. Do I download music, files onto my PC?
If you answered yes to any of these questions then your PC is vulnerable. If you bank online then you are sending personal confidential information to your bank via the Internet. For Example: Lets say you are infected with spyware and you are typing in your account number plus password. A spyware installation can record key strokes and then send them off to a site on the internet. Now the person who setup the site has your account number and password to your bank. Here is one more example, if you answered yes to I let other people use my pc, here is what happens. The other person decides that they like this new cool piece of software. They download and double click on the exe, msi or whatever installs the software. The adware, spyware or virus installs. Now the infection is installed and now it can start stealing confidential information or cause havoc on your PC. You get onto the PC as always, since you dont know this has happened and start doing what you always do, type documents, go to chat rooms, do your banking online, reconcile your banking with quicken and all this time your confidential information is stolen and you are completely unaware that this occurred.
The million dollar question, what do I do? Well, you can follow this approach. 1. Install a Spyware application and install and configure correctly. If you already have spyware application installed make sure it is up to date and make sure that is configured properly. 2. Install an Adware application and install and configure properly. If you already have adware application installed make sure it is up to date and make sure that is configured properly. 3. Install an AntiVirus application and install and configure properly. If you already have antivirus application installed make sure it is up to date and make sure that is configured properly. 4. Install backup software, why because if something does get through your defenses or delete something by accident you always have a way of retrieving the information. You should try to backup your system at least every other day. 5. Install Encryption software. This software will encrypt files like word docs, spreadsheets, banking file on quicken. This way if someone does steal your information they will not be able to read it. 6. Install a Firewall. The Firewall can either be software or hardware based. I would install both especially if you bring your laptop with you and connect to the internet at different locations. The Firewall will block hackers trying to scan your system while you are on the Internet.
Web Development ideas
Along with the use of WWW (World Wide Web) it has changed the way of doing businesses. By this the demand for Website development Companies and Professionals are mounting as like the stock price of a Share rise in New York Stock exchange. Now Businesses are using their website to explore all the information about their products and services to their clients and the customers.
On the other side the people do save their time by just typing in the Navigation Bar, the website address of their required business and get the whole information about the product or service, which they need. Now also Businesses are putting large amount of related database onto their website. Web development is such an important need of the business Official Website that it will be able enough to retain the old customer but also make the visitors to the customers. In that case business can get traffic so have the possibility to make revenue for it.
Now the main point is that how a website can be developed to retain a good traffic on it. The main thing is the language in witch the website is going to be design and the back coding of the website. The formatting or the coding of the website must be SEO friendly so that search engines can crawl onto the website. Now you need to know about the Seo friendly and non friendly languages. For a Seo non-friendly website there is a possibility that the search engines may not explore the website due to the language so use Seo friendly languages for the orderly running of the website by the search engines. If it is so then website will be visible to the people exploring the internet, easily. Then, there comes keywords combinations to be made because if this step is not taken with great care then it may not be easily available to the visitors. Search engines do search the website with the help of keywords. So keywords gather much important in this case. Best one is by using keywords or words in H1-H6 heading tags.
So after all this there is the step of making the pages of the website and collecting the contents of the website. If you are a Website development company and want to advertise your company so you must put all the crisp information onto the site. Inform your customer about whole contents and product or services that you are providing. Also provide the site map on the website and make it sure that it is updated properly and continuously. For the title and tags of the website it must be cleared out and displayed on the site.
Key Density is the term related with the keyword witch means that the keywords are used less times in the text used in the website. The links of the website must be posted on the higher PR websites for the traffic on that websites to come to your site. Your website must have Legal pages in your website because Search Engines do read the your website such as About Us, Contact Us, Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, Refund policy etc. So make sure you have included them in your website. And About the contents on the pages, they should be kept the same and try to make it unique on every page. Review the data for every page and update it continuously.