Wednesday, June 24, 2009

How to safeguard our personal and financial data



Nowadays, the Internet users are facing the problems that their personal and financial data has been stolen. There are many hackers would gain control of our data. Besides that, when surfing the Internet, there are some website which has virus. However, there may have some safeguards which can prevent their important data from being stolen.

By using the user name and password, which is the most common ways that people use to protect their data. Nevertheless, the password used must be longer because it provides greater security than the shorter one. Not only that, we also should change our password frequently in order to avoid others stolen our password.

To protect against some virus that are very harmful to our computer, we have to install the powerful antivirus software which can be bought from the shop. We also can download the antivirus software from the Internet which is free of charge. Usually the antivirus software has the automatic update feature which provides the better protection from the new virus that popping up from the Internet.

The antispyware and firewall are both safeguard which are very important for us to protect our data. The antispyware can prevent the unauthorised users access into our personal date in our computer. Besides that, the firewall can prevent the hackers from hacking our data.

So, these are some of the safeguard that can protect our data from being misusing.

No comments:

Post a Comment