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The threat of online security

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You bought a new computer, installed the operating system and other applications including an anti virus software. But after few months or half a year, u feel that your computer is running slower than ever and more and more unknown stuff popping up to disturb you.


Using a "turtle" computer

Then you will start to think whether you are infected by any "shits" ( at least this is what i call them - virus, malware, Trojan and many more) and slowed down your computer.

You also don't want to be this poor guy screaming at his laptop after seeing his bank account is being hacked and the money is gone.

When the time people are using the internet, we seldom care or even know about the threat of using it. We simply key in our personal information to register many stuff like an email account, log in pass, facebook account and etc. This information may be easily exploited by those black hat hackers if the company which holds our data did not secure it properly. So, how safe is our data with the current protection from online security?

The most common online security threats is identity theft. This means the private information of victims are being used for other purposes. For example, the credit card number is being stolen when it is transferred over the network due to the vulnerability of online security. Then the credit card will be used without the consent from the victims and the victims have to pay for those stuff they did not buy. Another category of online fraud takes place in the form of data theft which encompasses the theft, perusal and manipulation of private data.


I think the hacker has hacked the Singapore ID department if not this felor's father hate him right after he is born

Next, we shall discuss some of the underlying threats to online security. First, Malware, is a software designed to penetrate and damage a computer system without the owner’s informed consent. Generally, Malware includes computer viruses, worms, trojan horses, rootkits, spyware and so forth. Specifically, computer viruses are small software programs which intent to interfere with computer operations and they may corrupt and damage your data or even erase everything on your hard disk!

On the other hand, worms are self-replicating programs which do not required to be attached to other programs as it spread by exploiting security loopholes of operating system. For instance, Windows ExploreZip worm, is a destructive software with malicious purposes of crippling the file system by writing invalid data and destroying files on hard disk.


Not this kind of cute worms INFECTING your coms

Preventions which are desperately needed if you don't want to lose your precious data over the internet or reformat your computer every 2 months.

First-Activate your firewall or install one.


Hope i have this kind of firewall to cook those viruses in my Vista

Second-Install a reputable anti virus and update it frequently.


Which is the better?or can i install all of them to get maximum protection??HAHA

Thirdly-Do backup of your computer to prevent loss of data when the computer is under attacked by the virus.

Lastly, be smart when you are assessing anything from the net including your email, attachments, any suspecious mail and many more. Most importantly is all down to the user, experienced internet users to tend to suffer less online threats.








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