Creating and maintaining high safety standards of critical data are concerns for almost all of us, especially followers of online shopping and online banking. In this blog, we would be reading about some easy yet effective ways on how to prevent hacking attacks on PCs. Read on!

In today’s web-dominated world, almost every one of us makes use of PC and Internet to reduce time and efforts and staying close to comfort and convenience. Things are easy and safe till the time we come to know that critical information stored on the PC has been hacked. Things can be restored but it is always better to play it safe from the start itself. Let us read about computer hacking and find some easy ways to protect your privacy and data.

Before we start reading about ways to prevent hacking, let us read about computer hacking so that all of us can be on the same knowledge platform.

Computer hacking is all about manipulating vulnerabilities of a computer by a hacker with an aim to invade privacy or steal or modify information. Most of us think that PCs at homes are safe but that is far from being true. Hacking can happen to any PC in this world and your PC is no exception.

Let us now read about good ways to prevent hacking at the first place.

Tips to prevent Computer Hacking

1. Install a good paid antivirus. You can install a free version to check its reliability but paid version has improved tools to prevent hacking and is therefore recommended. Moreover, update the antivirus on a daily basis and scan the PC, at least once a week

2. Turn ON the Firewall and allow your PC to install all critical patches from Microsoft by activating Automatic Updates and Windows Firewall found under Control Panel-Security Center.

3. Turn off sharing all your drives, especially where program files are usually stored, the C: / drive.

4. Delete temporary internet files. Enter PREFETCH in the RUN box and delete by pressing SHIFT+DEL. Follow the same deletion process by typing %TEMP%, also type TEMP in the RUN box after clearing prefetch and %TEMP%. Go to start, type run, and type (prefetch, %temp%, and temp, one by one).

5. Go to Control panel-Performance and Maintenance-System-Remote and UNCHECK the box “Allow remote invitations to be sent from this computer”, apply and then press OK. This will prevent hackers from gaining unauthorized access on your PC.

6. Always scan a USB drive, floppy, attachment, and CD before opening its contents. This may take some time but it is always better to be safe

7. Block pop-ups and do not click on misleading advertisements

8. Never clicks on URLs that redirect you to other sites, especially those mischievously claiming to be from your bank or card issuing authority

9. Do not disclose personal information by responding to emails suggesting that you just won a prize or lottery. If you have not participated, how come you won it? It is that simple

10. Do not click or open emails or attachments from unknown persons

11. Never install Kazaa, Napster, or new software from an unknown source

Follow these simple tips and you can easily protect your PC and critical information from getting hacked.

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Few years back, online shopping was not given much preference in World. The reason for this was the fear of losing money in the minds of the people. Moreover, people in World used to avoid shopping online because they thought the procedure to be lengthy and complicated. But, nowadays, the shopping scenario in World has changed. People have now started adopting online methods for shopping. They now prefer to shop online rather than going on for the traditional methods.

The craze for online shopping is increasing among the people at a very steady pace. People are now going this process at ease and as such I’m also one of them. I prefer shopping online, rather than purchasing commodities from the shops or malls. One can find wide and unlimited range of products which are used almost daily on the Internet. Moreover, you can get huge variety of bags, accessories, jewelry items, computers, iPods, books, clothes, kitchen appliances, mobile phones, TV sets, audio systems, laptops, DVD and so on.

One can even compare the prices of different products, which are displayed on various websites as tough competition between the portals exists. We don’t need to go to the markets or malls in search of better deals. One can find everything in detail here in these web sites and also individuals can shop on these web portals anytime of the day without any hassles. The online portals are also trying to attract people with different schemes and attractive discounts such as buy one get one free offer, free gifts, 50% off and stock clearance sale. We can shop even when we are at home, office, metro or in the cyber cafe. Individuals can even get the delivery of the products within a very short time span.

This shopping method (online shopping) actually saves valuable time of people. One can avail all the national and international brands here. Online shopping is just a perfect method for the people who just hate going to crowded markets.

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