Computer Hacking............ Everything gets lost

23/01/07

Today we were supposed to research an article about "Computer Hacking" and things related to it. The article that I found is called Defend Your (Virtual) Home by Pat Regnier and Jeanne Sahadi.

This article talks about how people hack your computer and ways to prevent it from happening.

Ways of preventing people from hacking your computer:

1) The "Administrator" account is the only account which you can do anything in. All of the other accounts only let you do some things. To do the other things you need the administrator's permission. So it will be best if you do all your work on another account and only use the administrator account only to install stuff and fix other accounts.

2) Have good passwords is another way to prevent hacking. Make your passwords really hard to guess. Keep your passwords really long, should be both numbers and letters, and don't make it a name. To check how strong your password is you can go to microsoft.com/protect. But don't keep your password that complicated because then it will make you hard to remember the password yourself. Whatever you do do not write the password down some where. Don't keep the same password all of your accounts. Keep different passwords.

3) Every time you visit a website a program in your internet records it. The sites that are recorded can be found when you click on history on the top of your Internet window. In the new versions of Internet Explorer and Firefox you can clear the history.

Many people get viruses on the computer when they are downloading games, music, or videos. It a computer gets a virus it destroys the computer. It does it really fast.

My computer got a virus about three weeks ago. So we had to format the computer to get rid of it. But after the computer was formatted it became way slower than it used to be. Hackers are all around the world. So you have to be careful!

Source: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=rch&AN=23168487&site=src-live