These days hacking , virus threats are quite a common on the internet but the only person who become the victim is a person who doesn’t ensure proper steps to avoid protect your computer. So today we will see 10 simple ways to check so that we don’t get owned by these hacks .

10 ways to protect and secure your PC from Internet Threats

1. Using a secure web browser and avoid pop ups to the maximum. Good websites dont have any pop ups. We don’t have any either (We recommend Mozilla Firefox 3)
2. Don’t install any freeware utility like anti spywares, antivirus etc from any websites. They might be injected with malicious code. We recommend Softpedia and CNET’s Download.com for downloading freewares and applications since they are tested.
3. Personally we recommend AVG as a free solution, and if possible go for buying one (Bitdefender is a good option in that case). We don’t recommend playing with the antivirus settings/options if you dont know as you may be allowing a door open for threats.  Multiple Anti virus can never do the best because using multiple antiviruses can cause conflicts as I heard. But personally I use both AVG and BitDefender.
4. Frauds and phishing scams are hot issues these days.. Almost every next door in our neighbourhood people has already got their lesson but if you haven’t I just wish you good luck (Well people who are well aware  with using computers please dont critize us because this is a tutorial to those who are not aware of scams). Personally even I got attacked by a phishing attempt and I even submitted my credit card information thinking it was Paypal. Thanks to the almighty that my credit limit was over that time and the attacker was not able to rip me off.
5. Make sure you clean your cookies and sessions (temporary internet files saved by browsers) each time you leave your computer because cookies contains sensitive information that can be used to login into accounts without even needing your password. If you don’t know how to clean/delete internet files then use Ccleaner for doing so automatically. We have a tutorial on using Ccleaner here.
6. Before using any external storage like USB Drives make sure you scan them. Most of the antiviruses do this automatically (Atleast Bitdefender does.. Lol looks like im marketing Bitdefender for nothing.. Yeah but its really good. I wish Bitdefender gives me a free license for this )
7. Do not reply to emails that come from unknown users unless and until you feel you have to. No replying emails cannot actually harm your computer but if it is an email from a spam group then your email will get listed on all spam mailing lists..
8. Make sure you perform regular scans for antivirus, check disk at interval of atleast once a weekand regularly update your Anti Virus. You may also defrag your disk drives for faster performance. You can use scheduled task for this. If you are unsure about using this feature, here’s one tutorial on setting up scheduled tasks
9. Similarly make sure you do scheduled backups too to avoid missing your important files in case any thing happens. And make sure you keep you windows and all your applications updated regularly. Follow the policy of “Backup Often Backup Early“
10. The last thing is do not trust any one on your network if you are using Internet on LAN. Use a firewall to avoid local hacks. Yes there are many little buddy hackers residing next door to steal your privacy.

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