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This article will help you to learn various skills through which you can avoid the mistakes that are usually made by the owners of the computers and by making these mistakes they usually allow the cyber attackers to access their computers as well as all their personal information. You will also learn about the necessity of changing your passwords on a frequent basis as well as that of having up-to-date antivirus programs and firewall.
As far as the emails are concerned, the simplest and the best way in which you can guard your computer system from the cyber attacks made through emails is just to be careful if the sender of the email is unknown. If this is the case then you should act carefully and should not open or download any file that is attached to the email. It is quite possible sometimes that you receive phishing emails from your friends and the reason might be that the computer of your friend has received an attack and that particular email is just forwarded without any kind of approval.
Another simple and effective way of protecting your computer is “When in Doubt-Delete”. Don’t worry your friends will easily understand.
Common signs through which you are urged to open some file attached with the email include the phishing hyperlinks and the messages.
Another concerning issue regarding the cyber security is passwords. Passwords act just in a way as a door key. Their purpose is to protect the things that belong to you virtually and are stored on your computer. The passwords should be set in a way that they should not be easily stolen or duplicated by the cyber criminals just like the key of a door which is always kept at some secure place.
You should never share the passwords with any person, should keep on changing your passwords and should also not use the same passwords at different places. Some other things to practice are:
• The passwords that you set should not make sense logically and you should use a minimum of eight characters in your passwords. In this way it will be hard to guess it.
• Use all types of the characters that are allowed to you like uppercase, lowercase, symbols, numbers and special etc.
• Passwords should be changed frequently.
• Don’t give your passwords to anyone at all.