Prevent Hacking:
1) Understand Social Engineering – There are hackers who use your trusting nature on the internet while chatting, using social networks, dating portals to take out sensitive information, hack your computers and morph your photos. You have to be extra cautious when you are chatting to the person on the internet by confirming their identity in multiple ways, taking your time to build trust, talking to them to and make sure about things. Donot accept files from a stranger or a person whom you just know in the virtual world.
2) Configure your Anti virus and firewall to scan all files you accept via the internet. This is very important in order to prevent your system from downloading trojans, viruses. Sometimes viruses and trojans become undetected. So in case you are infected or hacked then use a spyware remover/trojan detector to clean your system.
Disable all startup options Find the trojan by looking at your taskbar
3) Check the authenticity of the email. Read email headers to detect whether email is authentic. Donot download attachments without confirming that they have been sent intentionally by your peer mates. The reason is that emails can
4) Don’t click the URL written in the email instead typing in the URL on the web browser.
5) Always remember a bank or email account never gives a short notice to update your information
6) Monitor the connections that your computer has made by using the commands
a. netstat –a
b. Ctrl+Alt+Del and go to processes
Disable processes which are fishy and seem irrelevant.
7) Use proxies to prevent IP Address(Your computer’s identity)
8) Use secured browsers for surfing internet like updated internet explorer, Mozilla Firefox
9) Use Google/Yahoo toolbar and configure them to block popups.
1) Understand Social Engineering – There are hackers who use your trusting nature on the internet while chatting, using social networks, dating portals to take out sensitive information, hack your computers and morph your photos. You have to be extra cautious when you are chatting to the person on the internet by confirming their identity in multiple ways, taking your time to build trust, talking to them to and make sure about things. Donot accept files from a stranger or a person whom you just know in the virtual world.
2) Configure your Anti virus and firewall to scan all files you accept via the internet. This is very important in order to prevent your system from downloading trojans, viruses. Sometimes viruses and trojans become undetected. So in case you are infected or hacked then use a spyware remover/trojan detector to clean your system.
Disable all startup options Find the trojan by looking at your taskbar
3) Check the authenticity of the email. Read email headers to detect whether email is authentic. Donot download attachments without confirming that they have been sent intentionally by your peer mates. The reason is that emails can
4) Don’t click the URL written in the email instead typing in the URL on the web browser.
5) Always remember a bank or email account never gives a short notice to update your information
6) Monitor the connections that your computer has made by using the commands
a. netstat –a
b. Ctrl+Alt+Del and go to processes
Disable processes which are fishy and seem irrelevant.
7) Use proxies to prevent IP Address(Your computer’s identity)
8) Use secured browsers for surfing internet like updated internet explorer, Mozilla Firefox
9) Use Google/Yahoo toolbar and configure them to block popups.
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