Now a days hackers have become more advanced than ever before. So you have to follow many steps to save yourself from hacking.
This is not a step but a very important thing you should know. There are 2 things commonly used by small hackers (Let's not call them hacker, because they knew nothing about hacking but only some little tricks)
1. Install Anti-Virus Software
This should not even have to be listed, if you don’t have anti-virus software installed, you’re asking for trouble! And if your reason for not installing anti-virus software is because it’s too expensive, then that can reason can be shot down because there are several free anti-virus programs out there that are considered better than commercial software packages. Here are two of the most popular ones:
AVG Anti-Virus – Very good and completely free.
Avast Anti-Virus – Almost on par with AVG.
Kaspersky Anti-Virus – Not free, but one of the best detection rates.
This is not a step but a very important thing you should know. There are 2 things commonly used by small hackers (Let's not call them hacker, because they knew nothing about hacking but only some little tricks)
- Phishing
Phishing is a technique in which hackers make a fake page and uses it to get your password mostly of your email id or your account on social networking site
You can save yourself from this kind of hacking only by looking at the URL of the website. For example if you are at Yahoo, just check the URL if it is like this https://login.yahoo.com then it is CORRECT
But BEWARE if the link is like http://loginn.yahho.com, STOP THERE. DO NOT type your email id and password there. Because this is a fake page and all your personal information is passed to the person who has created and published this fake page.
- Binding a virus (Key-loggers or Trojan with any file like a song or movie)
In this technique hacker bind a virus with a usable file in such a way that when you double click on file, both file and virus will open simultaneously. Now this virus is usually a Trojan and hacker will now control your whole computer just like your control it
You can save yourself from this attack by just seeing the extension of the file. For example if you have downloaded a song it's extension must be .mp3 .rm .amr. If its extension is like this .exe STOP THERE. DO NOT open it. Most probably there will be virus present in it.
A good anti-virus or up-to-dated antivirus catch this file and inform you of the virus present in it. So keep an eye on extension if you have not up-to-dated antivirus otherwise install an up-to-dated antivirus in your computer.
1. Install Anti-Virus SoftwareThis should not even have to be listed, if you don’t have anti-virus software installed, you’re asking for trouble! And if your reason for not installing anti-virus software is because it’s too expensive, then that can reason can be shot down because there are several free anti-virus programs out there that are considered better than commercial software packages. Here are two of the most popular ones:
AVG Anti-Virus – Very good and completely free.
Avast Anti-Virus – Almost on par with AVG.
Kaspersky Anti-Virus – Not free, but one of the best detection rates.
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Thanks for this useful information to save the information from being hacked. I will do consider all these points and share them with all my friends too.
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