It’s fairly common today to hear of PCs getting hacked, getting attacked by viruses, controlled by trojans, monitored by spyware – and yet much of it is preventable. You don’t need fancy software or hardware (although it does help) to protect yourself better – you just need to look around your computer and spot the door that most people leave wide open; The Network.
You can call it the Internet, Intranet, WiFi, Broadband, Dialup – whatever you wish – is essence though you are connecting your PC to a network of some sort – and chances are these days that you’re not the only person connected to it. The more ‘social’ you make your network to other people the more likely you’ll have visitors – and chances are they’re not the kind you’d welcome…
The Goal
The ideal is to allow your PC all the access to the network that it needs but to restrict the access that the network has back to your PC. In this way you can prevent many of the common attacks on the network that people expose themselves to without even realising it.
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