How to Protect Your Computer from Hackers?

Posted: Sep 15, 2010 |Comments: 0 |

As we are now more and more dependent on computer and store valuable information on the computer, it has become extremely important to protect this information from data loss, misuse, and abuse. For businesses, it is very important to keep information in such way so that hackers cannot access it. The home users must also be careful while taking part in online transactions. Computer security has become the much talked topic in the computer domain of 21st century. Although there are computer repair companies that offer tech support to the computer users for protecting their computer from online theft but awareness of the users is also very important.

There are many criminals who are always working on to breach in computer security. These people are known as cyberextortionist, unethical employee, hacker, cracker, cyberterrorist, and script kiddie, etc. In this article we have given a brief idea about all of them.


Hackers are the people who access your computer or computer network without authorization. The Cyberterrorists are the people who make use of a computer network or the internet for destroying computers for political reasons. This could be compared as the regular terrorist attack. This is because alike terrorist attack it requires expert individuals as well as millions of dollars and years of planning.

Let's discuss about the Cyberextortionist. This term refers to people who use emails as a hateful force. Their job is to send threatening emails to the companies. The email message states that the confidential information of the company will be leaked. They also threat the companies with mails saying that they will launch an attack to the company's network. They demand a sum of money for stopping this threat mails.

So, whether you are a business or home user, you must do your best to protect or safeguard your computer from these kinds of threats. What is the best way to protect your computer? Firstly, you must use good quality internet security software. It is recommended to purchase trustworthy security software and it must be kept up to date with the most recent virus signatures. Keeping the software up to date is very important. Remember, a full security package will protect your computer from viruses, Worms, Trojan horses, and keyloggers.  Not just that, this antivirus program will detect if a hacker tries to hack into your computer and stop the user from gaining access to the computer or to a network.

Many computer users opt for the free antivirus service but it is not suggested at all. This is because these do not provide adequate protection. Norton, McAfee, AVG, Avast, etc. are some of the most renowned recommended internet security software programs.

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