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Saturday, April 16, 2011

How to protect your email accounts from being hacked, how to make your self safe on internet

We have seen lots of people telling that some one hacked their email account, they want some tips and tricks using which you can make yourself protected while using Internet. We have heard lots of people being hacked every day, even the hackers used to steel money from others account.
  I am gona share some tips using which you can make your self protected
1) Install a good antivirus.Here is a list of some popularly know antivirus that are absolutely free to download
(a) Microsoft Security Essentials
for 32 bit windows 7 here it is
for 64 bit windows 7 here it is
 (b) Avira Antivir
Here is the link for windows 7
here it is
(c) Avast home edition
for windows here it is
(d) AVG it is also good one but it will make your system little bit slow. And even the uninstallation is also lengthy
 There are hundreds of antivirus world wide you can choose any one of them, but these 4 are mostly used
2) You also need to install an antispyware program because antivirus will only protect you from malware and virus but you need some antispyware program which can protect you from spyware, malware, trjons, n lot more dangerous miscellaneous programs.
Antispyware software helps protect your computer against pop-ups, slow performance, and security threats caused by spyware and other unwanted software. To keep up with the latest forms of spyware, you must keep your antispyware software updated.
Here are is the list of some commonly used antispyware program
 Macafee Virus Scan and Anti Spyware
here it is
(b)Microsoft windows defender
 there are lots of more other program which you can download from google
3) You need a strong firewall which can protect you from geeting infected from malware and other harmful programs. Here is a list of some commonly famous firewall
(a) ZoneAlarm PRO Firewall
(b) F-Secure Internet Security 2011
(c) Panda Firewall - Global Protection 2011
(d) NeT Firewall 2011
(e) ESET Smart Security 4 - Firewall
These are the tips using which you can make your computer free from getting infected my harmful programs.
But you can't make sure that you are still safe from getting infected there are still some basic tips you need to follow to make your self safe from getting infected
a) Your password should contain symbols, numbers, caps lock alphabet small alphabet. Your password should be big in size and you need to change your password frequently. Don't use the same password for gmail, orkut, facebook and for other sites.
b)Don't visit any unsafe websites like pornhub and all, You need to install wot it will prevent you to acess any website unprotected websites. It will show you the rating of all the websites you visit. If any websites is very harmful and you can get virus and other harmful programs then it will restrict you to go there and access that webpage.

This will show you three color red(don't visit that webpage), yellow(there are some harmful programs), green(you can visit this webpage)
c) Don't trust any add page which are given on any websites it will ask your email id and password. It can be any malware. Only visit trusted websites
d) Don't open any mail which you have received from unknown person it can be virus, just send it to spam
e) Always use https rather than using http, many http webpage are containg virus. So u can get infected
f) If you are using any internet from some other persons laptop then never click on remember me option always sign out your self when you want to sign off

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