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IT Security has written a very useful article entitled The Twenty Minute Guide to PC Security: 20 Tips to Secure your Box. This is a very good article that talks to pretty much everyone who has a home network or spends time on the Internet. If you do nothing else but take the advice in this article, you will be doing more to secure your computer and home network than the vast majority of users.Here are the areas that are covered in the article:

The Basics: Spotting and Eliminating Threats

1. Use a firewall
2. Install and update anti-virus software
3. Install and run anti-spyware software
4. Install additional basic threat counter-measures

Tweaking Settings and Making Usage Adjustments

1. Strengthen your web browser security
2. Install the latest OS service pack
3. Select secure software and update it regularly
4. Disable file sharing on your hard drives
5. Be cautious when downloading

Safely Emailing

1. Use a first-rate email client
2. Handle email attachments carefully
3. Do not click on email links haphazardly
4. Set up email filters

Protecting Your Password

1. Keep hackers guessing
2. Use a variety of different passwords
3. Password protect your computer login access

Wireless Protection

1. Protect your wireless network
2. Do not use a neighbor’s wi-fi connection

Physical Protection

1. Disguise your laptop
2. Use anti-theft solutions

We can all stand to improve our security knowledge. Take some time to read through this and think about your security setup.

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3 Responses to “Secure Your Compute in 20 Minutes”

1. The Fieldhouse Says:
   November 30th, 1999 at 12:00 am

   Stories of Identity TheftDCoT Helps Find Lost ChildHow Jared Was Hacked!E-Mail Request: USB AntivirusThe Vista SkipRearm DebacleMake Vista Less AnnoyingTorpark 2.0.0.2a ReleasedWhy don’t you just go Google yourself?Secure Your Computer in 20 MinutesMicrosoft says IE Biggest Internet Threat, Get OperaSmall Business Primer on Network Security Threats20 Ways To Mark Safer Internet Day 2007Protect Your Privacy With A LiveCDPersonal Servers: Are We At That Point?

2. Rootprotect Says:
   February 22nd, 2007 at 11:08 am

   A very genuine and basic information that people always tend to forget..Indeed its a handy information that you have posted.Cheers!!!

3. deryl Says:
   February 22nd, 2007 at 11:09 am

   very good i already do all that and 0on top of it i run a linux firewall so i am always good to go on firewalls thanks and i always keep everything up to date~~

4. Ken Savage Says:
   February 22nd, 2007 at 1:09 pm

   So basic but sooo important.
   Thx Tim.

5. .: Stigandr.com :. Says:
   February 24th, 2007 at 2:23 am

   of us should be following if we want to keep our computers, and more importantly, the files on them safe. If you don’t feel like reading the whole article, then Tim Fehlman1has recently written a really nice summary of the article which he titled “Secure Your Computer in 20 Minutes“. If you do nothing else, check out at least one of these articles…..today. Tim resides over at Daily Cup of Tech. [< <]

6. Of Zen and Computing Says:
   February 27th, 2007 at 1:41 pm

   up to get hacked when they select passwords that are far too simple or that are changed too infrequently.” Everyone with a computer should do themselves a favor and implement the suggestions in “20 Minutes to Secure Your Box” (link via Daily Cup of Tech).

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