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Tips to increase the security of your online network

1. Your anti-virus tool

Tools and fire threats for working with your antivirus program. But unlike the Anti-Virus Tools, the threat of fire is not at the signature to detect malware. Instead, it monitors your computer for malicious programs of the type of suspicious behavior. The software works silently in the background until it detects a threat, then the user is notified.

2. Switch to text only

Many unpleasant things can be in HTML. If you set your inbox to view all messages in HTML, it can be hidden codes.

3. Do not click on links in e-mail

Better not to visit the website by clicking on links in emails, especially if these links take you to the side, the entry in detail. Most of these links takes you to a page, log in or account information of fraud, if they store their data, which can be used by hackers is a link.

4. Your E-mail Vet

Most anti-spam tools for email, just downloaded from your mail server. If you are installing the program, as PopTray, you can use e-mail address and receive a preliminary, yet on the server. Thus, you can delete unwanted messages or suspects without having to enter your e-mail program.

5. Change your web browser

If you are not careful with the shipping company, Active X control Firefox, Opera and Chrome potentially malicious software can support. If you’re not sure you can filter for Active-X, you can configure your browser to the latest version of Internet Explorer, which uses a secure protocol.

6. Check the web site before access

Plug-ins from the Web of Trust as a traffic light system warns that if a page with malicious code.

7. Manage your passwords

A password manager like KeePass, you can safely enter passwords easily and in any program. You only need to remember one master password, so you can learn more complicated combinations that do not need to remember. The program can even secure, random passwords for you.

8. Monitoring All files

Never open an attachment, or directly from the source, not on the table, and then scan the files with your anti-virus software (this can be done using the right mouse button, the file and select “Scan with. ..”).

9. Learn the basics of P2P

Peer-to-peer networks are a breeding ground for malicious software, especially content that is protected by copyright. If you use P2P, select your trust, be careful that you read the comments, a better idea of what we are going to get. If you downloaded the file / S you with your anti-virus scan before opening.

10. Creating a virtual sandbox

Virtual Sandbox is a unit of work in a protected and on your hard drive. Sandbox is activated, all changes (for example, upload files, install software) will be used if you delete the sandbox, so you can surf the Internet and open e-mail attachments without fear of malware secretly isolated on the device and the PC.

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14 July, 2009 (19:30) | security | By: computersland

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