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Security Is The Number One Issue Online



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t should be a legal             dead as them. Patches are         
requirement for your ISP to     continuously being introduced to  
protect every surfer,           the main interfaces and they      
provide spam filtering that           always come too late.             
actually works and a defence                                            
against phishing that is more         You should be provided with the   
than a warning letter reminding       basic tools and information to    
you that emails asking for            have a good grasp of what is      
passwords should be deleted, but      needed to survive in the tangle   
its not.                              of bad websites, unscrupulous     
                                      coders and thieving parasites     
If you surf it is your                that inhabit certain parts of the 
responsibility to protect your        Net. The fact that you don't is,  
online security. Especially if        in this author’s opinion,         
your connection is a wireless         scandalous. Secondly, the large   
one.                                  number of sites offering "free    
                                      malware, adware, trojan and virus 
You have no more important tasks      detection" reflects the           
before attaching yourself to the      shortcomings mentioned above. Of  
"World Wide Web" than the             course only the download and scan 
installation of a safe browser,       are free. When, and I mean when   
firewall, block list and an           not if, these "free downloads"    
anti-virus solution. You should       find something bad you will be    
also have a hosts file, and you       invited to pay for their removal. 
should have made at least basic       Doubly scandalous as the very     
changes to the default                best solutions are available      
configuration of your browser.        completely without cost.          
The pitiful offerings that came                                         
with your Operating system are        So, which defenses do you need    
Dodos and should be considered as     and which do you need to replace? 



The firewall that is part of your     some idiot has your number and    
OS, if you should be so "lucky",      has infiltrated your computer     
is lame and leaks like a badly        before you have your shields up.  
designed nappy and should be                                            
discarded with the same haste. A      They can prevent you from even    
similar fate should befall your       visiting an anti-virus provider’s 
browser. And one of the greatest      website. They ensure that their   
ironies of our time is that the       trojan code is hidden from your   
average user has to go online to      investigations and then utilize   
get a decent anti-virus solution,     your CPU power and connection     
privacy protection and, most          speed for their own ends. They    
importantly, a fully functioning      riddle your hard-drive with       
firewall.                             spurious nonsense and defeat an   
                                      intelligent attempt at their      
You should know that the              removal. In the wink of an eye    
criminals who create botnets          your once clean machine is less   
have, to hand, the total list of      powerful, your internet           
addresses assigned to all the         connection is slower and your     
ISP’s in the world and they own       software, including your personal 
such powerful computers and           files, in more danger than when   
connections that your machine         you plugged it into your phone    
will be compromised inside 3          line.                             
minutes of your being online. It                                        
takes longer than that for even a     Please have a CD, with some tools 
seasoned, read scarred, net           on it, to install immediately     
veteran to assemble, let alone        after you put the Operating       
download, the necessary tools to      System on your computer and       
prevent disaster. For disaster it     before you even think about       
most certainly is if you are          instant messaging your friends to 
caught with your pants down and       tell them that you are back after 



the bad guys trashed your             versions, at a friend's house if  
previous setup. The best free         need be, and learn how they       
tools, and this time I mean           update themselves to remain one   
totally and completely without        step ahead of the very bad people 
cost, are available at my main        who would hurt you if they could. 
website. Download the latest          

                              




About the Author:

Terry Ward has been protecting his client’s hardware and software since threats began and writes exclusively for http://freesecuritysecrets.com


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