In year 2000, the Byzantine Bloomberg network was attacked by two Kazakhstan hackers and demanded that Bloomberg pay $200,000 if they want their data back.
Byzantine Bloomberg can easily pay the ransom, however, the CEO decided that they cannot follow the hackers demand and brought with him undercover officers to where he would hand the money and the hackers were caught during the transaction.
Most companies are willing to pay high amount of money just to protect their data.
Computer and the world wide web certainly made any job easier, but it also created a new type of criminals.
So, in order to keep you and your computer safe from online threats, you need to have a few PC security tools software inside your computer.
1. Firewall
You need a firewall in order to monitor your ingoing and outgoing traffic. You can search the Google to find free firewall and install it into your computer.
2. Anti-Virus
Anti-virus is one of the important tools that you will need. However, most of the people didn't install any anti-virus and even if they did, they seldom update the virus definition. Updating the anti-virus definition is very important in order to keep you up-to-date with new viruses.
Please keep in mind that you can only have one anti-virus installed in your computer.
3. Anti-Adware and ant-spyware
Adware and malware are software with malicious intent. Created by hackers for their own use, these two types of malware are dangerous to your PC. Therefore, you need anti-spyware and anti-adware software.
Different with anti-virus, you can install more than one in your computer. However, please make sure that you have one anti-spyware or anti-adware software with real-time protection.
4. Site-Advisor
Seldom people know about site-advisor and I decided to put this type of software as one of my must-have list PC protection tools.
Site advisor can warn you if you're visiting websites that contain malware or phishing websites. So, it's a very important tools to have if you're going online.
These four types of protection software are the must-have protection tools in your computer. I didn't expect you to have the knowledge of a computer expert to protect your computer. But, at least, by installing these software, it's better rather than having a "naked computer".
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