1. Install Mozilla Firefox - Mozilla Firefox is spyware dead in his halting. Mozilla Firefox has many plugins and benefits for other browsers and has a great community to keep it safe given.
2. Firewall. If your operating system is anything other than Windows 98 then you have a built-in firewall. The problem is that most computers do I fix the firewall is turned off. They would not leave the front door to open! Firewalls close any open doors or ports thatenable remote connect users or applications on your computer. No firewall means that all open ports and can also connect several applications to your computer remotely.
3rd encrypting your files - I do not care if you have a super secret password on your computer and the latest patches if someone may have physical access to your computer hard drive and pop it into another computer and access your files. If you are then encrypts your files and foldersthey can not access them and steal your identity. Select a folder for important documents, right-click the folder then press advanced and then press encrypt folders and contents.
4. Updates - I do not care what operating system you use, but make sure you enable automatic updates. Updates, should be within twenty-four hours after their release. Hackers reverse engineering the updates released, and the deeds to create their own, so patch away.
5. CarStorage - OK, but if I just proposed a hacker everything I need to do is follow the target home and wait until the laptop can be in the car. Stupid, but I felt like it had to be said.
6. Laptop locks - Do not buy cheap laptop locks. Some of the cheap laptop locks on the market can be cut with small pliers. Good laptop lock cables are not cut it together.
7. Politics - If you make a company a separate policy, such as laptops should be stored. You musthave a double locking policy. If a laptop is left in a room, it needs to be left unattended with a laptop lock and the door to the room must be locked closed.
8. Harden your operating system - locks stop your operating system, all non-essential services, installing updates and proper configuration of applications and server applications.
9. Passwords vs. Pass Phrases - Make your password longer and more complicated.
10. Inventory - Assign inventory numbers and asset tagsLaptops from them to the employees. When an employee is fired or leaves the company to return the laptop, simple but often overlooked.
11. Wireless Security - Enable some sort of wireless security such as WPA2, if you do not set up wireless encryption, then all your wireless clients can be prosecuted and subject to use. Kismet and other hacker tools will not only sniff wireless traffic, they also provide information on all WLAN client for wireless accessPoints.
12. Walking Away - if you are away from your laptop you need to press Control-Alt-Del and lock your computer. Stupid but it must be said.
13. AD-HOC wireless networks - if your in a library or on campus or at a coffee shop and wireless networks to scan and you see a computer to computer network does not attempt "in relation to someone, they bracket.
14. You can rename your computer - simply to take you in his sights, when you computer name is your name. Once a hackerYou know the name of social engineering begins playing.
15. Virtualization - Install Virtual PC and install a virtual machine. Use the Virtual PC for all applications to test before use. Use the Virtual PC for all the dangerous sites.
16. Drinks, I think I've lost more lost data from someone spilling a drink on a laptop computer seen as something else. So, do not hold your drinks on your laptop ... so simple.
17. Stolen Laptops - Register your laptop with one of the many different laptopRecovery services. When you install the software and the thief accesses the Internet, they can track it deletes your data, and report the location for the police ... in theory.
18. Ant-Virus - Update your virus definitions.
19. Install Linux - Ubuntu Linux is free, you can install it in about 15 minutes, and more secure than anything Microsoft has to offer.
20. Install Linux - oops I did it twice, but I think it deserves two listings, good luck
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