Proven Ways to Protect Your Data and Your Software
Your data represents your valuable information and your software includes all tools you use on a day to day basis to access your data. Depending on the value of your data, intruders may need to access them.
Your data may be the information stored in your computer (like documents); it also includes the information stored online like your credit cards, private information, etc.
Thus, there is potential risk of loss, destruction of your digital assets. In this article, I will share with you proven tips to prevent some unexpected issues.
Personal Prevention
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- Monitor your credit card statements regularly and report any suspicious transactions.
- Report any fraud, theft, or crime to the authorities in your area, like your banks, credit card companies, and government services.
- Avoid downloading unsecure files from unknown websites.
- Avoid downloading unsecure files from File-sharing websites, like P2P. Your computer will be at risk of intrusion with spyware, malware, virus. You may also share easily your personal information with the attackers.
- Avoid downloading email attachments from any web source (like unknown or unsecure websites, unsecure forums, …).
- Avoid using a fake antivirus offered by some websites. Some of them can popup a window to clean your computer; just ignore and close these messages.
- Don’t click on links received by email from an unknown sender or from another unknown website (like a forum, unsafe blogs), but go directly to your vendors’ websites to make an online transaction.
Technical Prevention- Manage your admin access. Create a standard account for your daily access and avoid using an admin account (useful when you have kids or teen!). You can go to the control panel to create a new user. Since the steps vary between the OS versions, I suggest checking an online tutorial (YouTube or blog) to learn how to set up a new account; it’s easy. Keep your admin password account in a safe place; otherwise, you won’t be able to install any software later! You may have to reinstall Windows or set up your device.
- Encrypt your data files. If you have good knowledge of computer technology, you can use a partition tool to split your hard drive into more than one partition. This way, you can encrypt your data partitions.
- Use a private vpn software to protect your Internet connection. You can do a search by typing private vpn software. Here are some good vpn tools : Bitdefender VPN, Kaspersky Secure Connection, Norton Secure VPN, NordVPN, etc.
- Use the privacy mode of your Antivirus tool, this feature usually disable addons that can track your Internet connection.
Efficient Ways to Use the Internet Securely
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