Internet – How it helps and why it is insecure? - Kioskea

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Everything that made for good purpose if used in bad intention becomes a very big destruction. And the latest example is internet. Internet is made by some people to connect the world. It is the place where people can actually meet each other exchange ideas, mails, services and businesses with each other. The internet created many millions of business opportunities to world...

Everything that made for good purpose if used in bad intention becomes a very big destruction. And the latest example is internet. Internet is made by some people to connect the world. It is the place where people can actually meet each other exchange ideas, mails, services and businesses with each other. The internet created many millions of business opportunities to world. Also made many personal relations which can never be possible without it. Internet made many changes on how people deal with their day to day life. E-business , E-books , E-marketing and many more E’s made routine of person more different than it was. The basic step in the history of internet was e banking which made shopping and exchanging money virtually on the internet. But things goes wrong when some talented programmers turns into hackers, crackers and virus developers. They started destroying email account, personal accounts, bank accounts, companies databases, Important projects and money more things to test their knowledge and earn money obviously. And therefore surfing internet becomes more insecure for common man who is not technically good to prevent them. So Let us now see how can you become the attack of harmful programs and hackers in following section.

Threats - how they comes to you.
This can be passed to you whenever you open any webpage it tries to install program on your PC and if it is done it sends information from your computer to hacker so that he can attack your computer. Also some emails come to you offering you free lottery, greetings, gifts and ask you to click on some link if that link has an executable(.EXE) file attached with it then it can be program as Trojan or spyware or viruses. While you chat some hacker can act as normal person and makes friendship with you and asks for personal information and you will reply it too because you think he is now your friend . NEVER DO THIS. Also he try to send his picture which is not actually a picture but a virus or harmful programs. So verify the file or link you are clicking on is not a .EXE file. Through some CD’s of games and some free games from internet contains a virus attached with it 80% times. Trojan is a most harmful program ever made by hackers by which they can monitor your computer , shut OFF and ON your Pc, Open/Close CD ROM ,Open any file , Send you an message , Steal data from your computers, install program delete files even can format your PC. It sends your every keystroke on keyboard to them by which they identifies your passwords. Also can access your video cam and audio microphones. There is almost nothing can’t accessed by Trojan so Be aware of it. It comes to you by same processes as mentioned above.

Following Precaution can be taken to prevent from all the threats.
Never Give your personal data as Name, address, Phone number, Sex, picture, passwords and any detail until you know the person who you are giving to. Never believe in any free money/gift offers and do not reply them. For such emails never respond spontaneously without thinking about it. Do not click on links or files which have either .EXE extension or file having two extensions e.g. nameoffile.jpg.exe. Also do not click on file having unknown extensions. Whenever your firewall ask you to access or denied any file see it carefully and denied if it is giving out some information or try to install any file. Use original Antivirus, Antispyware, Firewalls and Anti-spam programs to be secured. Because original programs let you update latest threats security from internet.

What if you are under attack of any hacker?
You simply disconnect your Pc from internet and run an Antivirus program twice or thrice .Then restart it. When your PC is running in very good condition create system restore point. It will help you when you Get attacked you can simply go back and make your PC Normal.
Final words for you.
Using antivirus program is (90% secured but it is not secured 10% because your attention and changes made in it. If you use your system , internet intelligently you can be secured even without any anti virus program. Yes! It is. So always be alert & Be Safe.

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