What's Your PIN?

WEEK 7.

Security and Protecting Yourself on the Internet.

The Gist.

hello! what i've today is going involve a can of worms. that's right. worms, viruses, spywares, phising and hacking. ugh. the dumpsters of the internet. the bane of computers. Norton, save us please!

So What Else.

fortunately, there's no need. what you need is a good dose of COM125 from sensei Abel Choy and your computer is going to be fine! to learn how to remedy a viral-infected computer, we need to know the problem. a computer virus is a computer program that can copy itself to infect a computer. things like malware, spywares, worms, trojans and rootkits are different from viruses. these things instead exploit vulnerabilities in the computer's security and may harm data and hinder performance. so what is the prescription? firewalls, anti-virus, surveillance and parental control are just but a few of them. although they do not immediately remove the dirt totally, at least they can minimize the damage caused by the worms and viruses.

Why Should We Care?

as mentioned, worms and viruses may hinder performance or cause a loss of data. some data could even be stolen and be forever gone. unless you want to be an instant celebrity and lose some naughty photos, you be warned to put some preventive measures. also, prevention is better than cure. if you got a suspicious email claiming it's a relative from Nigeria, go look yourself in the mirror, then report the mail as spam. ditto for surfing. try not to surf websites that are not protected. verify, verify verify! and of course, have passwords that are as long as the Great Wall of China.

"if you think that it's going all wrong, then you're probably right"