3 More Ways to Beef up Your PC Security

Prevention, they say, is always better than cure, and remaining prepared for the keeps post-tragedy trauma away from you. These are the things we will be talking about in this blog post.

Backup – what and how?

This suggests you do not have a backup plan in place to fight unfortunate circumstances: like your computer getting hacked or it just breaks down. What you do? You send your PC to the computer repair guy with a belief that he will not touch your data. How can you be so sure? And how do you know your data will not be lost in the process, if not stolen?

Your safety is always in your hands so be wise and create a backup of all the important files on hard disk on to an external hard disk. Make a mirror image of your hard disk on that, and delete all your critical data from your disk before sending your machine to the repair guy. You can also ask the repair guy to do that in front of you.

Weak passwords

Everyone may not know your girlfriend’s name or her nickname, but people who know you do have these information. Even hackers know that. That is why many try to get as many details about the prey as they can, which they can use to extract the password. It is called social reverse engineering.

The only way to keep yourself safe is to avoid sharing your personal information and do not keep the password that would be anybody’s guess.

Unencrypted sensitive files

Why a hacker would want to enter your computer or install a spyware or a Trojan that could open a backdoor for you? He does that because he knows all your personal information is insecure. You have not applied any encryption methodology on the files. If you are not the one who can relate to this then you do not need to worry about hackers breaking into your system. t the one who can related to this then you do not need to worry about hackers that in front of you.ri I mean it still is a threat, very much so, but you will not lose your sensitive data because of the break in.

Apply these three suggestions in your life and you will see how secure your personal data becomes.