How To Keep Our Computer Secure

As I said at my last post that there are many computer’s users do not care about their computer secure. That’s why their computer become a popular target for intruders. With the high speed internet connected to your computer, intruders can easily steal your private information like password, credit card number, file or another things from your computer then use it in internet.

There are a lot of ways that intruders can use to break into your computer. They can use an email, Trojan, Backdoor, virus and more to get into your computer. So how to keep our computer from intruders? There are a few tips :

1. Keep your system patched
There are many bugs in our system, that’s why the expert always update the system become more and more secure. If we don’t patch our system, intruders can use this bug to get into our computer. So patch your system continuosly

2. Install and use Antivirus Program
A computer virus is a computer program that can copy itself and infect a computer without permission or knowledge of the user (http://www.wikipedia.com). Computer virus can damage your file or delete your file. It spread from one computer to anothers when target computer connected to the host computer. If you install antivirus program, it will detect it and prevent the virus infected your computer. There are a lot of antivirus program, like Norton Antivirus, McAffe Anti Virus, Panda Anti Virus, Kapersky and more.

3. Use a firewall program
A firewall is a hardware or software device which is configured to permit, deny or proxy data through a computer network which has different levels of trust (http://www.wikipedia.com). We need to use firewall program to maintain our data transfer through internet cause internet is the zone with no trust.

4. Be careful when reading an email with attachment
Email can become a media to transfer a virus, Trojan, backdoor from one computer to another. So when open an email with attachment please make sure that it comes from trusted person. If no just delete it, there is no advantage to open email from suspicious person.