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Thursday, December 25, 2008

Protect your PC from Hackers

In this guide I will explain how to keep your computer and any emails or accounts that you may have safe.

1. The most common passwords are your name, college you graduated from, and your birth date. Some other passwords include god, secret, and love. Please, change your password. If you cannot think of a good password like me, use a program called Robo Form, it installs a tool bar, and on that tool bar it says generate, click on that and it will create a random password. Here is the link to download Robo Form: http://www.roboform.com/ .I recommend writing this random password down as you may not remember it totally the first time.

2. Viruses and Spy ware, the most vulnerable part of many peoples computers unless the right measures are taken. I will provide the links to a popular and free Anti Virus and Anti Spy Ware programs.
Anti Virus
http://free.grisoft.com/doc/downloads
Anti Spy ware
http://www.download.com/Spybot-Search-Destroy/3000-8022_4-10122137.html

Download these free ware apps also known Avg Anti virus 7 Free Edition and Spybot S&D, then install them and run a virus scan and a Spybot scan once every week. Pay special attention to Trojan Horses and Trojan Droppers as these may be keyloggers, and what these do is they copy everything you do and then send it to the key logger's owner and these can be a menace because won't even notice it and your identity could be stolen.

Keep Safe And Post Any Comments, Suggestions For Future Articles, And Questions!!

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