{"id":341,"date":"2021-04-28T22:10:01","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T22:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/byeab001\/?p=341"},"modified":"2021-04-28T22:10:02","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T22:10:02","slug":"eportfolio-entry-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/byeab001\/2021\/04\/28\/eportfolio-entry-8\/","title":{"rendered":"ePortfolio entry #8"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>1.&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>&nbsp;How can you tell if your computer is safe<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ever since the first programmable computer&nbsp;was created between 1936 and 1938 our&nbsp;lives&nbsp;have changed for the better.&nbsp;The use of computers has&nbsp;revolutionized our society and it has given us a huge advantage in our&nbsp;day-to-day&nbsp;life.&nbsp;There are many&nbsp;advantages&nbsp;to using computers, some of them are it increase productivity, connects you to the&nbsp;internet, can store vast amounts of information and&nbsp;reduce waste, it helps sort organize and search through information, keeps you connected,&nbsp;helps you make money and more.&nbsp;Even though computers have their own benefits they also prone to attacks.&nbsp;These attacks&nbsp;can&nbsp;cause havoc on people&#8217;s&nbsp;lives, not&nbsp;only&nbsp;that but it&nbsp;will result in financial damage,&nbsp;identity&nbsp;theft,&nbsp;and all sorts of issues.&nbsp;With all that threat happening how can one tell if their computer is safe?&nbsp;There are a variety of ways in which a person can tell if their computer is safe or not.&nbsp;However, before that, there are signs that your computers will show you that it has been infected. If your computer slows down,&nbsp;if&nbsp;it crashes,&nbsp;when there&nbsp;are&nbsp;unusual messages showing unexpectedly,&nbsp;when your security solution is disabled&nbsp;can all be a sign that your&nbsp;computer&nbsp;is unsafe. Then how can anyone tell if&nbsp;your&nbsp;computer&nbsp;is ok? The first method&nbsp;is to test your settings,&nbsp;Microsoft&nbsp;baseline&nbsp;security&nbsp;analyzer is a free tool that can help examine any potential problems.&nbsp;The second method is to update your browser plugins, only the latest version of a browser will help&nbsp;protect your computer from infections. Testing your firewall is also a good way to ensure&nbsp;the&nbsp;safety&nbsp;of&nbsp;your&nbsp;computer. A firewall keeps hackers from seeing your computer online. Overall, there&nbsp;is&nbsp;plenty of ways to make sure&nbsp;your computer is safe. The important thing to do is knowing what&nbsp;you are&nbsp;doing when online.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;How can you tell if your computer is safe Ever since the first programmable computer&nbsp;was created between 1936 and 1938 our&nbsp;lives&nbsp;have changed for the better.&nbsp;The use of computers has&nbsp;revolutionized our society and it has given us a huge advantage in our&nbsp;day-to-day&nbsp;life.&nbsp;There are many&nbsp;advantages&nbsp;to using computers, some of them are it increase productivity, connects you to&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/byeab001\/2021\/04\/28\/eportfolio-entry-8\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":16668,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/byeab001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/byeab001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/byeab001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/byeab001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16668"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/byeab001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/byeab001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/byeab001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions\/342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/byeab001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/byeab001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/byeab001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}