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Simple tips to Prevent being Hacked

Pierce — Sun, 31 May 2009 19:57:50 +0000

We’ve presented many different ways to prevent being hacked, but we have more ideas!
Our first idea we will be talking about is turning your computer/Internet off when not in use. I’m sure you’ve heard to keep your computer off when you are not using it to save electricity. Well, this is also an advantage to staying secure. The less time your computer is connected to the Internet, the less likely of being hacked.

Also, being connected to the Internet while not using it may be harmful, due to the fact if the attack was noticeable, and you get security warnings, you wont be there to do anything about it.

Another great way is turning off your router while not using the Internet. Routers can be hacked too, and injected with viruses so that once you start your computer back up, it will automatically infect it!

Stay updated! We talk about staying updated a lot due to the fact the most popular security flaws are because lack of updating. Why update? Because its the best free protection! Think outside of the box on this fact, update your router firmware, service packs, firewalls, and other applications in which you run. You may be thinking “Oh, well no hacker wants what is on my computer”. Well, this could be true (not likely), but worms in which automate the process may exploit your systems and make them part of a botnet!

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e-Mail and Spam

Pierce — Thu, 28 May 2009 19:42:36 +0000

Are you sick of e-Mail spam? Well, so are the rest of us. e-Mail spamming has been around for quite a while, yet it is still used very frequently! This month, e-Mail spam is said that 90% of e-mails are spam (according to Symantec)!

Over 50% of this spam comes from botnets. A Botnet is a large network of PC’s controlled by a “bot master” in which infected these PC’s with his trojan (virus).

To prevent all this from happening, once again, stay updated! Also, if you would like to keep your personal e-Mail spam free, I would suggest having 2 e-Mail addresses. You should have one for personal, meaning you don’t post it on ANY sites, no forums, blogs, newsletters, nothing. This will prevent spammers from crawling websites and extracting e-Mails, thus spamming your inbox. You can then create another e-Mail if you need to sign up at forums, blogs, and other websites.

Using the methods above is a good method of saving time and money. You will not need anti-spam protection firewalls in which do less than nothing!

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Simple computer maintenance for you “old” people!

Pierce — Mon, 18 May 2009 06:58:09 +0000

I’ve met many people over the ages of 30 who do not know of simple techniques to effectively clean up their computers. Most people that I have met from the ages of 15-25 know most of the techniques I am about to show you. This will accomplish cleaning up your computer (probably speeding things up), and even providing extra security!

The first thing I am going to inform you about, is cookies. These are not the things that come in all types of flavors, but the ones on your computer that store critical information like passwords! Cookies are mostly used in authentication for log-ins. If a hacker compromises your computer, and you do not clear your cookies frequently, they could decrypt these cookies, thus getting very important details!

Now, for clearing cookies:
In browsers like Firefox, the best way to do it is to go to Tools, then “Clear Private Data” (shortcut is Crtl+Shift+Del). Now, make sure you check the cookies box, and hit “Clear Private Data Now”.
For browsers like Internet explorer, first quit the Internet (open this site in a different browser so you can keep following these directions!
Click on Start, now go to “Run”. Now type “inetcpl.cpl” and hit enter.
Now, under the General tab, click delete under the browsing history in the Internet properties dialog box. Make sure to click “clear cookies”. Now, just hit delete!

Make sure to clear you cookies on a daily basis.

Now, lets quickly make sure everything is up-to-date. Why update? This is the easiest, nad very most crucial part of computer security! Do this by going to Start, then Control Panel. Under “Security”, click “Check for updates”. I would recommend updating anything that says “recommended”, and of course definitely update anything under the priority of “important“. If it is a slow update, don’t cancel it. Delay it for a few hours until you go to bed, delaying for days on end is not secure!

These were some basic ways to keep a clean and secure computer, more articles on this Topic will be further discussed in the future!

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