How can you tell if your computer is safe?

There are several instances where your computer will automatically detect if it is safe but there are ways that you can manually keep your computer safe. Discussing the former first, you can install several security programs and measures that can defend your computer against threats and individuals. Windows has its own default security system that you can use to scan the files of your computer, but it can only do so much. There are other programs that you can subscribe to like Mcafee or Norton 360 that can regulate the files on your computers and scan the files that you download in real time to see if there is a threat within them. Although the latter of the two options is more beneficial for your bank account, it will cost you time however learning about file types and technology speak, and being able to notice when something is wrong with a file or when your hardware is acting strange. 

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

Computers made an entire generational switch from the simple pen and paper age that had once ruled the world, however by making the world “safer” has also made the world more dangerous as well. On the safer side of technology, computers have made it easier to communicate with people anywhere in the world at any point and time. Meanwhile on the darker side, technology has made it difficult to stay out of range of anyone because your aunt is always talking to your cousin all the time on Facebook, so anyone could find you at any point in time. Secondly, the accessibility of information is very helpful to solving problems at any moment necessary. Although because of the unguarded access that the internet provides, since a percent of the information on the internet isn’t appropriate nor safe to spread. Third is a more physical advantage, a phone or a laptop is much lighter than a stack of books, however you don’t have to charge a book or have a chance of it exploding in your pocket; Samsung, talking about you.