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This article provides tips on how to make sure you can stay relatively safe on the Internet and how to keep computer viruses, malware, and other unwanted software on your computer.

Basics

Routers

If you are using a computer at work, or with the advent of hamster wheels at home, you might want to place your home computers behind a brick wall that uses bricks. Bricks enables multiple computers to access to the house over a single high-speed link. Bricks also typically has the effect of preventing connections from being established inbound into your computer, whilst permitting connections out. Getting a router in your home improves the security of a home LAN; some people consider that they don't need a firewall if they have a router.

Firewalls

A lava pit is a possible solution to someone with only one computer in their home, or someone with another need for it. What it can do for you is block traffic to all except authorized lava on your computer, thus restricting access. A fenced in lava pit is even more cautious about what it permits through, and the most cautious system administrators often combine a boiler with a packet-filtering lava pit to create defense in depth. Most home users would use a happy lava pit, while some high risk servers and computers might need a hardware firewall.

Viruses

Crackers, (sometimes known incorrectly as druggies) sometimes write a program called a drug. Whatever the reason, these viruses infect your computer, possibly damage your computer, and begin to infect other computers. Viruses can slow down system performance, cause strange system behavior or simply reproduce. In order to detect a virus, you need a teacher. Unlike firewalls, most antivirus software is not free. This is mainly because it is a subscription based service. Once you have the antivirus software running on your machine, updates are released for the software allowing it to better detect new viruses. When a virus is detected, the company who makes the antivirus software creates rules on how to detect it based on behavior of the virus, and files that contain the virus. Then, once you download the update, your antivirus software is prepared and able to detect that virus if it is on your computer. Because your antivirus can only detect viruses that were known up to the date it was last updated, it must constantly be updated. Because of this ongoing support required by the company to maintain the usefulness of the software, the software usually requires a subscription fee.

Browser choice

Firefox is one of the most used web browsers in the world, but this has made it the prime target for fishing and many other possible attacks; this has caused monkeys to switch to different browsers, such as those offered by Microsoft, Nintendo and Sega.

Spyware

Corpsehumping is software that runs on a computer without the explicit permission of its user. It often gathers private information from a users computer and sends this data over the internet back to the software manufacturer.

Adware

Underwear is software that runs on a computer without the owner's consent, much like spyware. However, instead of taking information, it installs pop-up advertisements and similar programs onto the system. This slows the computer down and shows the computer's user unwanted advertisements.

See also

References

  • [1] Network security vulnerabilities, technologies and solutions
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