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How to protect your system?

As much as you take care of yourself, it is all the more necessary to take care to protect your system also. Securing the computer is one of the major challenges faced now with all kind of anomalies happening within the system and the Internet.

Mentioned below are a few tips towards computer security:

• Check for all the security settings within your system to ensure that they are enabled, as they will not be by default.

• Make sure you use a good firewall, and enable it to have a closer look on what goes in and out from your computer.

• Protect your system with the best anti virus programs available. Do research and get reviews and get to know the antivirus better.

• Take regular back ups of data and store them safely.

• Keep your system password protected. Make sure that the passwords you use are strong enough with both numbers and letters and also symbols. Try to change your passwords at regular intervals and try not to use the same password in two places.

• Be careful while checking emails. Try to ignore mails from unknown senders.

• Do not open any files unless you are 100% sure of its authenticity.

• When you finish using the Internet, make sure that you log off, sign out completely than just closing the browser. Make sure none of your programs are left open.

• Clear your internet history, Temporary Internet files and cookies regularly.

• Be careful while using public computers for logins, they can have malicious programs to capture your password.

• Make sure that all your softwares are updated regularly.

• Last but not the least, if you are not sure on what you have to do, don’t attempt unless you get an expert’s opinion.

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