How to protect your computer from hackers and viruses

How to protect your computer from hackers and viruses

The Computer has become an essential part of our life in this modern age. More than 65% of world population is now using computers. A hacker is a person who will try to enter into your computer and try to steal the information in it.

Once you connect to the internet through your computer, it is possible for other people in the internet to have access to your computer. Hackers will always try to attack your computer if you are connected to internet. Hackers normally try to collect your personal information like bank account passwords, by creating virus softwares to damage your computers.

But if you take a few steps to protect your computer from these kind of hackers and viruses, you are safe and your data is safe. Let us see the ways in which you can protect your computer.

Use Firewall: A firewall can be a software or a hardware which can protect your computers from hackers and virus and malwares. So you can use firewall so that it prevents others to access your computer.

Use Anti Virus softwares: Installing a good anti virus software is a must to protect your computers from malwares. Windows 7 does not have any in-built anti virus programs. You have to install an anti virus yourself.

The viruses or worms or trojan horses are the softwares created by hackers. These programs use the internet as the medium to infect and damage other computers connected to internet. The trojan horses normally hide inside a program like games, or screen savers. Trojan horses are very dangerous and can completely erase the hard disk or disable your computer.

The anti virus softwares scan the email attachments and other files in your computer from virus, worms, trojan horses. If any virus is found, the anti virus software will either isolates it, or deletes it completely so that the files in your computer are not damaged.

The most popular anti virus programs are given below:

1. AVG anti virus - This is a very nice anti virus and is completely free
2. Avast anti virus - This is also a nice one and is free
3. Norton anti virus - This is not a free version, but you need to buy it.

Every day new viruses are being identified, so it is very important that you should install an anti virus program which automatically updates itself every day.

Update Windows automatically: Microsoft regularly gives important updates to Windows which are needed to protect your computer against new virus and threats. It is better to turn on automatic updating so that you receive these updates from Microsoft so that your computer is safe. The updates are automatically downloaded when ever you are connected to the internet.

Always use standard user account: There are three types of user accounts in your computer -- Standard, administrator and guest account. It is always better to use standard user account for normal working like internet browsing etc. This is because even if the hackers gain access to your computer, then cannot tamper with the security settings or change other user accounts. So your computer is more secure if you use the standard user account. You can use the administrator account if you want to make some changes to the security settings, or some important activity.

Install only trusted softwares: Please do not install the software that you are not sure of. It is better to install softwares from popular sites like Microsoft, Adobe etc.

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