If You Get Run Over By A Truck On The Internet, Blame Yourself.Vishal Kapoorhttp://sg.linkedin.com/in/vishalkapoorinfotech/

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d out o

f

Faceb

ook

Money wired into

another account &

cashed out.

All the women in your Yahoo!

address book have an email saying

you love them & more

Your tweets are suddenly about nothing but Viagra clones

I’m talking to the man in the mirror! I’m askin’ him to change his waaaays!

Michael Jackson understood this before YOU did!

They were called ‘personal computers’ for a reason. Don’t share your laptop. Not with your wife, kids, friends or girlfriend.

If you don’t control which

websites your computer is

taken to or what is

downloaded, then don’t act

shocked later.

Separate computers are worth the price.

The smal

ler the

number

of peopl

e who us

e a

given PC

/laptop,

the

more con

trol you

have.

Your teen already has one for

school or college, you have one & don’t tell me you didn’t

get something for the wife.

You really don’t want to use the same laptop your kid uses to surf to BitTorrent heaven.

The only people who ever gave you free stuff & expected nothing in return were your parents.

It might b

e ‘free’ to

you but someone paid to

put it up

there & hoped it got d

ownloaded. That so

meone

wants to make a buck.

Nobility died an early death on the

Internet. Free means

someone else is smiling.

Safety ain’t cheap but it doesn’t cost a lot

either. Smart people pay for full-fledged,

legit, protection software. That piece of software is the only thing between you and a flying bullet on the Internet.

Given the sheer volume of malware on the

Internet, it doesn’t make sense to further

stack the odds against yourself by

installing bogus, ‘free’ antivirus.

Complicated passwords aren’t much good if you have a keystroke logger on your laptop (also see previous slide).

Set up an alternate email address for lost password recovery.

Take the trouble to create a custom domain name &

email. It doesn’t cost much. I use Google Apps

Standard.

Don’t go to town with your new, custom domain & email. Keep it tight.

Just because you can access your bank account from anywhere, it doesn’t mean you should.

Don’t access your

account from any computer

that happens to be handy.

Laziness will make you poor. Type in the URL. The only thing THAT will cost you is calories.

One day, soon, that truck

WILL find you.

Back up your data.

Hard disks are cheap.

Let me know if

you

want recommendatio

ns

for backup & re

store

s/w.If nothing else, just do a simple copy/paste for all your folders every 15 days.

Don’t backup to a USB ‘key’. You WILL

lose it!

Boredom + Internet access = lots of clicks on links.

It doesn’t matter what I say. You will never stop clicking on that stuff, will you?

Small changes will go a long way in keeping you safe.