How can you tell if your computer is safe?

There are many ways to determine the safety of your computer. The first step is to ensure that you have gone through appropriate measures to make your computer safe. This includes making sure you have a strong password to get into your computer and having a firewall and antivirus software installed. Having a password can help prevent someone from physically trying to get into your computer. A firewall depending on your pc can come built-in and will be automatically activated. A firewall is designed to block unauthorized access to your pc is a good addition to any computer. Antivirus software has many different functions it can detect and remove virus or malicious software and is a great way to keep your computer safe. You can check to see if your computer is safe by doing scans using this software to see if any unusual activity is spotted. Keeping your security systems up to date are essential to making sure your computer is safe.

Describe three ways that computers have made the world safer and less safe.

Computers are a product of human evolution and can be seen as both a positive and negative. With computers we are now able to use them for not only personal reasons but also to work. There are many companies that rely on computers for everyday work and these systems are able to store an abundance of information and make it easily accessible. With certain software this information is made secure and can be safer to be stored in a secure system rather than on paper somewhere. However, this can also be seen as something that is less safe as bad actors will attempt to get this information. Although there are many ways to keep this information secure if there is any vulnerability within the system a bad actor could take advantage of this and compromise this secure information. Another way computers have made the world feel less safe is because of how easily accessible people are. There are hackers they may try to breach systems to get personal information but with the rise of social media it also gives rise to predators. With people constantly posting on social media and putting themselves out there predators can easily see this and scammers and catfishers are able to take advantage of people. Making a profile is easy and there are people out there looking to scam people whether that be out of personal information or money in the form of pretending to be someone else.