In today's
world
of the Internet, computer safety is of utmost importance. Viruses,
Spam, Hackers and
Identity theft are on the rise and no one should be using the
Administrator account on
their computer while connected to the Internet.
What? you don't know
what Spam is? and you say you don't know what phishing is? Ok
I think we
need to discuss some of these terms, come on let's go and talk about
spam and I don't mean the kind
that comes in a can.
If you don't know what
phishing
is you better
read about it here.
Welcome back, pretty scary stuff isn't it? Well your not alone to many
people don't realize the full dangers.
Everyone has heard the terms
spyware
and
adware
but do you really know what they are and what they can do?
check it out here.
Computer
viruses more often then not
are malicious
destructive programs. No one ever wants to catch a
computer virus.
Now that we have looked at some of the threats out there that can
affect you and your computer, lets take a look at what every computer
system should have for software as a bare minimum.