Sunday, September 21, 2008

Beware of online threats!



It sucks when computers get hacked. I personally have that experience a lot when I was in middle school. My computer will slow down at first and then crash. In one year this will happen five times, the worst thing it will always happen when I am doing school work. After those experiences my parents install anti-virus software so my computer system won’t crush again. The kind of precautions I made was don’t click on ads that say “just won a free laptop!” or “which one is Paris Hilton; a,b or c!” anything mention like this is surely a hacker involved. Just ignore those ads, go on setting in your browser and set the ad blocker on. Dangers of installing free music, screensavers and software for the computer is that it can say there is no harm that is safe to download. Which can seem safe but during the download it can take affect during or after the download. I won’t download the free stuff that ads pop- up. I think Microsoft and Apple software that can be download for free is safe because it is from the company and it is secure from their severs. Again I can be wrong with the whole thing; maybe if a hacker goes to there sever and change stuff to harm other people computers whiles the download is finish. To protect my identity online I wouldn’t put my personal information, a good idea is to make up your name and date of birth. But is better just to ignore anything that is about filling in personal information of you.