CYSE 200- Entry 8

How can you tell that your computer is safe?

There are many different ways you can tell that your computer is safe for the most part. One particular thing you can spot out sometimes is a virus and knowing if you have one or not. Some ways you could notice that your computer has one is problems shutting down or restarting, missing files, unexpected pop up windows, malfunctioning antivirus programs or software, and frequent system crashes. Those are just the basics you can look for to see if your computer is safe in the way of having a virus running. Also another way to ensure that your computer is safe is downloading a certain program that can run a scan to check everything in your computer. It is important to do these every now and then to make sure there is nothing going on that you don’t know about. With whatever type of computer that you have you should have a firmware in there to run a basic scan on your computer to make sure it is up to date. That is only the basic things though, I think it is important to maybe purchase a type of program that is safe to run on more advanced things in your computer. You have to want to take more steps than just the regular safety measures to make sure your computer or information in it is safe and not a hacker getting ahold of it. There are ways of keeping your computer safe such as use a firewall, stay away from pirated material, don’t open suspicious links that may be sent to you in messages or email, make sure your passwords are not basic and well chosen with a authentication app required to log in. Overall these are some of the things you can do to keep your computer safe which should be very important.

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