Protectors of the Internet

Two decades ago, to have a desktop computer at home is considered an honor and privilege. I still remember going to my cousin's place and played on his Floppy Disk games. There were no such thing as Internet, not to mention computer having a virus attack. Today, almost everyone has a computer with internet access at home. We use it everyday. And most of us have surely encounter viruses, spams and hackers in our Internet. Although it is a major issue, nobody kicks up a fuss anymore. Worst comes, we'll just reformat the computer; if that still fails, we just go along Sim Lim and buy a brand new one.

Well, prevention is still better than cure. If we can prevent viruses from attacking, spammers from sending malware into our hard disks, and hackers from stealing our information and identity, we would not have to spend the additional money re-formatting the computer or buying a brand new one. Since most problems we face today comes from the Internet, i'll be discussing Internet Security today. Let's watch a video.



Haha! Botnet is basically one of our many hackers online today. So they access your computer through email attachments, some website links that you clicked on, and with some software/freeware which you installed with. Scary isn't it? Just within the second we click on a suspicious attachment from our emails, the computer is theirs to control.

Virus, is a term used for malicious programs which spreads to many computers. It normally attaches itself to a normal program file, a host program. It could be exe, doc, or even ppt. The virus will start attacking when we open these files.
Worms on the other hand attaches themselves to email addresses, and tracks out our address book and sends itself automatically to our friends. Have you ever received MSN messages from your friends saying you've sent them a link which you don' remember at all? What about Facebook? Have you ever log in and realized your account has sent some links to your friends which you never did it? Well, that's worms for you.

As from the video, there are some tips in which we can prevent spams, virus, hackers from entering our computer:
1) Do not open attachment from suspicious emails. They often have typo errors or link to websites which you do not recognize. Once again, DO NOT OPEN.

2) Have anti virus software in your computer and keep it updated. The video introduces Norton Anti-Virus. To my knowledge, they have a one year protection, after which you have to purchase their software again. If you would like some secure freeware that helps keep viruses and malwares at bay, i recommend AVG, windows defender, and IObit security. These are freeware that can be downloaded from the Internet.

3) Have your firewall switched on, and keep it on always.