Nowadays technology makes our task easier but it also has a worst part known as data theft or hacking. Fortunately, in lots of cases, giant organizations dependent on Internet safety are doing hard work and providing their users a comparatively safe experience. Online shopping stores, banks and other internet organizationsare very popular among the peoples for several purposes but it is necessary to apply some precautions while visiting any one because hackers are repeatedly trying to hack the users account and may harm financially.
It is almost possible that you will fall someday to a hacking that will moreover make your PC infected or theft your personal data. So the best practice to avoid hacking is to be ready with some easy safety tips. Below some tips are given that will makes you able to deal with data theft and other online threats.
Make the important stuff safe:
Important stuffs like online username/password, private images etc are very crucial and become dangerous if one can get these. So it is important to make these stuffs completely protected and unreachable from unwanted persons. You can make a personal vault and save all important online data in it. Use different user name and password for different online account.
Only respond to those you know or can identify:
Spam email is very dangerous, hackers use genuine looking emails to trick user. They can send email that look like professional and when user downloads the attachment then malicious data gets injected into the PC. It is also recommended that don’t reply to any unknown email or don’t click the links contain by the email.
Use multiple passwords:
As above discussed that it is necessary to use different password for different online accounts, avoid using username/password which is recommended by any software programs like Safari and Chrome. Username and password created by you is more protected and strong if it is formed with the help of special characters, numbers, alphabets etc.
Avoid Downloading Data from unknown/malicious sites
There are lots of applications available free on the internet but it is not sure that the platform form where you are going to download this is safe. Hackers add unwanted and malicious codes into the fresh application and provide it for the users for free, when user downloads and installs it in to their computer then the added codes get injected into the PC. These malicious codes are very dangerous and can able to record the personal information of the user. After recording all the personal data they send them to hackers, which are the most dangerous part.
Use the combo of Security tool Antimalware + Antivirus
An updated antivirus tool will make your computer protected from internet virus but make sure that installed antivirus program is updated because an outdated antivirus application is not able to provide complete protection. But the weak point of antivirus is, it is not program to detect and remove a malware infection. In short only having an antivirus program you cannot defend your PC from malware attacks. The solution of this problem is installing anantimalware tool, this application is specially programmed to defend your PC from all types of malware like browser hijacker, adware, malicious extensions etc. According to professional having both antivirus and antimalware software is good practice in the manner to defend your PC from any types of infection either virus or malware.
Conclusion: With the above given tricks you will protect your online activities from hackers and getting your PC infected. But these tips don’t allow you to download data from malicious site, visit hacked website, and download porn data from malicious page and more. Along with these given tips it is also necessary to apply your common sense because without applying common sense you cannot protect your computer completely.
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