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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