5 Essential Tips to Ensure Your PC Safety

16 July, 2013

5 Essential Tips to Ensure Your PC Safety

With the inclusion and advent in the technological aspects, computer has evolved as one of the most important tool in the progress of the mankind and sustenance of life on the earth. Since its importance and utilities in the field is multidimensional. It has various implications as well. One such major consequence is the managing safety and security enhancement. As the incidence like, cyber crime, and global online theft is on the rise, people have been struck consequently by its effect adversely. Therefore these essential tips can prove handy in terms of maintaining absolute safety in the system.

     1. Use And Installation of Anti-Virus Software And Security Programming

Antivirus software proves as the most essential component to ensure the safety and security in the computer system. It protects the computer from various malicious viruses band harmful programming from entering in the computer system, thus enhancing the security more. Antivirus software also needs to update regularly to enhance more security and protection to the computer.      

 2. Keep Away From Emails And Links From Unknown Sources

There may be numerous promotional emails, offers and prizes that may come often from the unknown sources. These emails are the most malicious source of virus that may enter your computer system and steal all your important data. Therefore it is always need to keep in mind, that these types of emails or promotional links should not be clicked on or open in order to maintain the absolute security in your system.    

3. Use Of Firewall Is Must

Firewall is such a handy computer safety technology that actually works as a wall, barring all the harmful access to your computer from entering the system but allowing the good one, thus it’s mostly acts as filtering system in the computer. Firewall are mainly two types, one is in form of software to protect your personal home computer and another is in the form of hardware to protect the series of computers mostly used in the commercial purpose. 
   

      4.Security Updates Should Be Installed In The Computer Regularly. 

It is mandatory for one using computer and wants to ensure about the security and safety of the computer must to go for regular and periodical updates of the security patches from the respective antivirus service providers to keep abreast and protect the computer from daily viruses and harmful programming.

 5. Passwords Should Be  Efficient

Passwords should be used as to protect your computer and other valuable data. Therefore it should be in such a mix of numbers and letters and special characters and as well as in the mix of upper and lower case, which make it almost unbreakable or untraceable. 

Conclusion

Therefore he golden rules for forming password are, Password should consist of minimum eight characters with the combination of letters, symbols and upper and lower case.  And it should be as meaningless as it can be to make it hard to guess for any other person. Password should be changed regularly and constantly to make it safe and secure, almost minimum of thirty days interval. Password should be given to anyone in any case, in order to enhance the safety and maintain its functionality. 

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