The major threats a computer user may expect are – the damage of his stored data or software and stealing of confidential information. A computer can get infected with malicious programs like virus, Trojan, crimeware, spyware, malware or anything else, but the main challenge in front of you is to keep your all the data safe and also to keep your confidential information private while you are online. Before you going online, have you ever thought that your every keystrokes is being tracked by a small code hidden in your laptop or your every online transaction with credit card are being screen shots by a spy software and sending all those confidential data to a cyber criminal sitting back miles away from your town. A malicious code even open a secret door (backdoor) to a rouge person to enter your computer when you go online. As you know that, every disease has its treatment, the same way every malicious code can be identified and tracked before it because any damage to your computer and it can only be done once you have Internet security or at least an updated antivirus solution.

Therefore, a computer user need to be concerned with safety and privacy of all his logical assents-software, database, emails, operations system. In addition, the good news is an average user can be quite efficient in keeping his computing environment safe and sound, if he follow a few guidelines and maintains a few instructions on regular basis. The following are very important steps that you may follow on regular basis and can ensure a great level of computer safety.

• Use Internet security solutions or at least keep good antivirus software
• Always keep updated your antivirus and Internet security software. Though this sounds like a very ordinary task, yet it is one of the most important tasks that many forget to do regularly. It is advisable to keep your antivirus software in auto-update mode.
• Keep your operating system updated. For example if you are Windows user then , right click on “My Computer”, select “properties” and then select “Automatic Updates” tab, click on “Automatic and then click on the “apply button”    [Read more…]