Thursday, January 16, 2014

Final Security Tips II

Part two of final Security tips
  • Do not fall for FBI or police ransom.lock they will not lock your computer and ask you for money, they will always give you a warning first. 
    • General help:
      • Reboot and press F8 while PC is booting

    • Choose safe mode with networking
    • Launch MSConfig
    • Disable startup items rundll32 launching something from Application Data. Optionally, disable everything you do not recognize.
    • Reboot. FBI ransom-ware should not load.
  •  Pay attention to disk usage light on your computer, if there is no activity going on but the light is still flashing then something must be wrong.
  • If you notice something weird in your computer run it in safe mode. 
    • simply reboot your computer and press F8
    • chose desired option and continue
  • If your computer acts slower than usual you can go to WTM(Windows Task Manager) carefully remove any application process  that you don't recognize. 
  • Back up your computer weekly, [not a security tip but if you lose all of your information by a malware you still would have a secondary  source]
  • Remove cookies from browsers that you don't recognize.
  • When browsing at Deep web always use a proxy, and have maximum safe guards, things can be violent there.
  • Always check sites URL, some phishing sites will fool you by putting similar URL as the original one.
    • w could be changed into vv 
    • HTTPS --> HTTP
    • misspelled sites
    • incorrect domain or .com to .net or .etc
  • Be sure to have latest version of Java and only one version of it. multiple can cause security problems.
  • Check for websites or the newly installed application certificate, does it have a signature? if it doesn't or it has been expired then it's more likely to be a source of malware.
This should cover about everything fairly; next post which is on the 17th, covers about flash settings and should be a wrap up to Security Unit.

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