Development of computer and Internet technology ,leads to great revolution in world of information technology , and helped in making this world as a global village, these technologies boomed the Education and Business structure, now a days students can use Internet to study about the latest technologies aroung any part of the world , even business can expanded and managed world wide using these smile technologies .
But on the other side these technologies also leads to the several threats such as Virus , worm , spy ware and many other , all these malicious programs can cause a serious threats to our personal data and personal information such as credit card information , netbanking password
All these malicious programs are programs which are used to attack the file structure of the windows based operating system .
But we can avoid all computer related threats by following some of the basic steps .
1 Protect macros in ms Word, Excell and Powerpoint :
Some virus uses macros (ie stored commands ) for malicious attack, these malwares attack macros and change file types from the text files or spreadsheets in to templates, it also deletes the files from the computer .
2 Don't download from public news groups :
Its always recommended not to download form unsafe websites, so is the public news groups these groups are mainly used by hackers .
3 Use strong password :
there are several malicious programs which attacks the weak password, ie application having weak password, so its always recomened to use proper and strong password.
4 Backup files and folder.
To be on the safer hand we should always backup our data.
5 Download application software.
There is a application package called as Microsoft baseline security analyse (MBSA), this application will scan your computer for missing hotfixes, it will work for windows 2000 and xp home and professional .
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