Sunday, November 8, 2009

Top Ten PC Privacy and Security Tips


The word online is nowadays a household term. In fact, we acknowledge a person's existence these days based on his/her being online or not. Unfortunately not all people who are online are Mother Theresas. A few shadowy figures are still aiming for world domination, and yes, they don't just exist in the movies or in PC games, they exist in the real physical world. We just don't know who some of them are, yet. They could be pranksters, dictator wannabes, geeks who want to be the next Bill Gates, geeks who want to work for the FBI or NASA, or geeky businessmen with aims at world domination. So here are a few tips to protect us from them.

1. Get a good history cleaner or good history cleaners like Evidence Eliminator or Winclear and install them.

2. Never give up information that other people shouldn't have any knowledge about, like social security numbers.

3. Avoid watching or minimize watching porn. A lot of nasty software comes from pornographic material.

4. Minimize accessing private information such as email on a public network or public comuters like internet cafes or public libraries. Do it if you don't have any other choice.

5. Keep a list of your passwords. It's better to use one very difficult password on all your online accounts than keep a lot of generic, no-brainer ones.

6. Don't confess private and sensitive information in chatrooms or forums unless you know who they are and are comfortable with them. These places are usually breeding grounds for world domination folks.

7. Take notes(handwritten) for very important information. Most people think that ink and paper are obsolete and think that all vital information are already online. Use this notion to your advantage and write down important information.

8. Be informed. Information technology is about information so gather as much knowledge as you can about security and online privacy instead of say, watching porn?

9. Remove yourself from major internet sites. A lot of sites like Google have a "remove me from your mailing list" option.

10. Don't be too thrifty so as not to buy history cleaners. Seriously, $29.95 is a wise investment in the long run.

1 comment:

  1. patrickchavez,
    Thanks a lot for sharing such a nice article, i had gone through the tips mentioned by you which are very informative which may be very helpful in keeping the system secure.

    By the way for more information check this link: http://www.eccouncil.org/certification/ec-council_certified_security_specialist.aspx

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