Top 5 Steps To Keep Your Computer Safe Online
Making use of the internet without proper care can be very dangerous at times. As important as this is, it cannot be done when you do not know how to go about it. As important as the internet is, it also contains items that are very dangerous to the PC so it is important to always keep the system safe whenever it is been used online. The following things can be done to ensure that your system is safe and secure whenever you are online.
Mind The type of site you visit
Most people (especially does that do not know what to do when they come online) are usually prone to putting the health of their PC in danger. This is because whenever they are online, the only place or site that they are fun of visiting are sites that are filled with one problem or the other waiting to find their way into the system. This is the major reason it is necessary for internet users to always be mindful of sites that they usually visit. This situation is common with sites that people do download from, and the porn sites. So it is advisable for internet user to be mindful of sites that have a lot of content.
Do not allow unknown site to store information on your system
Sites sometimes usually store information on the system whenever those sites are visited. This information stored can be harmful to the health of your PC because they might contain malware which is can be very dangerous to the system. For all this to be avoided, it is advisable for you to always clear the cache of your browser whenever you are done using the internet. This will help in avoiding the malware from transferring itself to the system.
Mind what you download
One major thing to be really careful about whenever you are online is the type of softwares downloaded from the internet. Although the internet is a good place where all sort of softwares can be found, it is also a place where dangerous software can be found. Downloading from the internet requires a lot care so that malware will not be downloaded along with the software that is intended to be downloaded.
Mind where you download from
Different sites from the internet always offer software for end-user to download and therefore will always look to provide the best and current one so that people that want to download them can find them on their sites. This therefore always increases the competition between the sites that offers these softwares for the users to download. Hence, the site that are making those software available will tend to do all they can so that they can stay at bay with others and this will therefore bring malware to the software that they want users to download. This is the major reason it is necessary for those that are fun of downloading with the internet to be careful of the site they choose for their downloading.
Make use of good anti-virus
One thing that really guarantees secure and safe internet usage is the presence of good ant-virus on the system. This anti-virus usually monitors the activities of the (things done by the internet user and the type of things stored on the system) that is going on whenever the system is connected to the internet which will the make it possible for the anti-virus to help in the prevention of virus from coming into the system.
Author Bio: Odesanya Taiwo is a tech writer and a tech blogger who writes for a technology blog, techatlast. He also spends time to provide latest news for thenewsofthepeople, a news website.
i will use this tips for my notebook.. Thanks for the tips
Nice article but i would like to add one more tool here, you Web Of trust browser plugin. it helps a lot.
Thanks for your addition Jeet 🙂
Thanks bro,
Good one there. Some of those plugins are center for virus operation