Hi, I’m Bruce Naylor, your FrugalTech and you know securing your computer is important in order to save money and avoid a lot of trouble. There are some bad guys out there and stuff going on and I wanted to share ten quick tips with you on how to fix some of those worst security nightmares for your computer. I found this on to reprint off of PC world. I think its good stuff I wanted to share with you today.
So the first step is, number one, make sure that your automatic updates of course in windows just turned on. But also make sure that this other software you use like QuickTime, winds up but to you there are precise out there that try to find ways and the holes into those over programmed in order to exploit those. So now we’re going to make sure you operating systems up to date but make sure the software you use every day is patched and fully up to date.
Now the second track is to find other holes and listen, there's an outfit called sccunia; s, c, c, u, n, i, a and they can really help you save the, they go t a free security appt and it's called the personal software inspector. And what this thing does is go over the apps and you use on your PC and look for stuff that may cause security issues and kind of point you the way to get those updated and taking care of, so that’s good, good stuff is absolutely free; thought you need to know about it. Hey make sure you're using our third tip, make sure you’re using the latest browser. The most up to date version because you know there is so many exports in these things and as soon the software makers fix the, you know somebody, a bad guy will try to find way and exploit that so tip number three, always make sure that you got the latest browser doing the good fight for you, okay?
Step number four, is a science step, social engineering. In other words, ‘no mater how hard we tried, some of these e-mails that you get and things like that are so well crafted, it could lure you into opening them. Hey listen, your suspect of anything, there's a free site out there that you can upload any attachments to and so forth and having scanned over by different, about 35 different virus engines and it’s called virustotal.com, that's the V, I, R, U, S, T, O, T, A, L, dot com.
Tip number 5 is get a jump on fast moving malware. That’s a traditional signature based on malware is getting released no doubt by all the new stuff that comes out there. So there's a new approach called behavior analysis and how this stuff interacts with your PC in your computer to help identify new types of malicious software out there. And so there is free download called ThreatFire and you can get that, it’s from PC tools and it can identify up to as much as 90% of malware just based on the behavior, and that’s another free download. A warning though for using AVG anti virus, you’re going to wait until there is a patch to fix that to work well with AVG.
Tip number six, press to your inbox and spam. There are all kind of spam filters out there but you junk mail just keeps getting through. And there's a lot of different ways to terminate that Yahoo web mail users can give a plus service that allow you to use different e-mail addresses. Don't ever, ever try to use your or don't is good practice use your business or e-mail addresses whenever you can, just throw away e-mail addresses if they’re out there on different websites and so forth, that's always a good idea but again, common sense is your best friend on that.
Step numbers seven, develop an anti phishing habit. Don't get lured into clicking on links for banks in the IRS and all these kind of stuff. Well these are bad guys and they want your personal information. But you know that, there are improvements in the modern web browsers to help locate when you come to unknown phishing site, it will block that for you so make sure that’s another good reason to have up to date web browsers and finally keep an eye out for common phishing tactic like using URL’s, you know that say that they are one thing but if you glanced at it, it actually takes you somewhere else so just be suspicious about where that's coming from.
Tip number eight, listen, and keep your website safe. There’s actually some freeze scanning tools out there. Let's say falsies.com if you go there, you can input the IP address of your website and t it will actually look out for vulnerabilities so these attackers can’t in turn take your website and attack your visitors, you don’t want that to happening, that’s for dog gone sure.
And number nine; make sure your password is secure and easy to remember. Online passwords are released about the safest tissue paper over a bank save these days. And so and the supplies going larger and say crooks collect these things like you would in baseball cards. So, experts say, we should use strong passwords to secure all of our accounts but they don't tell us how we’re supposed to remember them so here's an easy fixed for you to remember, just one password yet still have a strong unique password for each site you use. The password has, add on for fire fox and it takes a simple password that you typed, it runs it through an algorithm that in turn. It matches it up that unique name so we can’t just remember one really good password and then this adding on will create a password for you and all you have to after it resolves just hit the old f q key and after you go.
And finally, number ten; get expert help for clearing stubborn infections. There is free sites you can go to Trend Micro HouseCall, big defender on online plus or big defender online, I’m sorry, scanner because first year online secure our lines scanner and the ESET online scanner will help detect and remove malware but it does require Internet Explorer. Most of this seems to require Internet Explorer. The Trend Micro HouseCall will work with Firefox and internet ex-core those are numbers now, your FrugalTech, make sure you visit our website at www.frugal, f, r, u, g, l, brothers.com and visit us at the FrugalTechshow.com as well. Hey, Bruce Naylor her, remember if it's in your office now; making your money, you’re sending your money; get it the heck out here. I'll talk you later.
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