How to Protect your Computer Hard Drive from Cyber Hackers

What if Someone from overseas is probing your hard drive right now?

Its more likely than you would think!

Feel afraid, feel very afraid! While you are busy chatting with your friend, some malicious program is running in the background and noting down each and every keystroke of yours. This task is taking place in the background without being detected by your antivirus program. During the course of the chat your friend informs you to check up your credit card details. She has transferred some money to you. It’s your birthday tomorrow and your friend has sent you the money so that you can purchase anything you like. As you type your bank’s user id and password, each and every keystroke is being logged by that malicious program. When you are checking up your credit card statement, even those details are being logged.

You should not be surprised the next day if you find good sum of money has been withdrawn from your credit card without your knowledge. These programs which are commonly known as keyloggers reside in your hard drive as a hidden file and most of them cannot be detected by the general antivirus programs. Every now and then they transmit the vital information they have collect via your internet connection to someone who might be in any city, anywhere on earth. They will use the collected information to use your credit card for making online purchases. By the time you inform your bank and they try to trace back the IP number of the crook, they will find that the whole process was done via a proxy server.

You don't have to live with a slow pc any longer!

Boost Windows Performance and Browsing Speed

Clean registry and protect privacy

Remove harmful processes

Clean-out duplicate files, index.dat, web history in over 2000 applications like IE Firefox and Chrome

All of ParetoLogic's most popular product features in a single Easy to use Software - Download now!

In all probabilities that user has masked his trail by connecting to the internet from some cyber café. If only you had bothered to safeguard your PC. Back in the good old days a decent antivirus was more than sufficient to protect you from online attacks. Those days have gone and with the advent of high speed broadband, more and more malicious programs are appearing every other day. They disguise themselves to gain entry into your PC. The free game that you downloaded and installed from an unknown website, found via a Google search might have contained that keylogger.

As soon as you installed that program, the keylogger settled down on your hard drive and started monitoring your activities. There are different types of rogue programs like keyloggers, trojans, adware, spyware etc. To tackle them you need to install more than just an antivirus. There are certain programs like `adaware’, `spybot search & destroy’, `spywareblaster’ etc. which are available for free. You should also go in for a dedicated `firewall’ like `zone alarm free’ and use that instead of the default firewall that ships with the `Windows’ operating system. Download these programs from the publisher’s website or any mirrors contained therein and not from any other site and install them on your PC.

You should also update their signatures on a daily basis to ensure that they are well equipped to tackle the latest menace. Some of these programs use special `heuristic’ detection techniques to detect strings of data that might be harmful for the health of your PC. Permitting these programs to run in the background will assist your PC to be far more secure. Some of these programs use messenger programs to transmit their data so be careful not to log into your bank’s secure website during a chat session. Even after you have installed these programs, you should take special care to ensure that you do not play into the crook’s hand. Here a few tips that will help you towards safer computing.

Always update your operating system with the latest patches.
Always update your security software’s signatures.
Never reveal vital usernames or passwords through an online chat session or even via email, unless you are dead sure that your PC is secure. Just send them via SMS.
Never click on any link contained in an email that purportedly came from your bank. Most such links will lead you to `phishing’ sites that accurately resemble your bank’s website.
Always open a new window in your browser if you are planning to log into your bank. Check for the `https://’ (http secure) sign in the bank’s URL. If the bank’s site has just got `http://’ chances are that you have followed a link from somewhere else. Avoid this site like the plague.
Never reveal your username and password even the email from your bankers asks for it. That email is from someone else who are using special software to generate a false `From:’ id.
Change your bank’s online login password on a regular basis, preferably once a week using a combination of `UPPER CASE’ and `lower case alphabets and numbers.
In case of any doubt contact your bankers over phone immediately and tell them to block your account till further notification from your end. ¦ Never log into your bank account from a public place like a `cyber café.’
Avoid using someone else’s PC to log into your bank’s online portal or any other online portal where you have vital information stored.
Look out for unusual hard drive activity, especially when you are not performing any task.
Check if there are any high volume uploads taking place when you are not uploading anything and not on a chat session (chat sessions, especially with video chat uses a lot of upload bandwidth).
Store your data on a separate partition of your hard drive and not on the one where you have installed your operating system.

Use these advices and use your common sense and you shall always remain safe. Remember there is no single program that can safeguard you against the various malwares on the net. If you are savvy enough to guess the date the malware got installed, you can try a roll-back to a previous date, this helps at times. However, back up your date prior to this operation. If, despite all these you feel that your problems have not been resolved, call in the experts.

Windows Tune-up Speed up your PC Now - Download!

COMPANY AWARDS

A perfect 5 cow rating!

SCREENSHOTS

Find duplicate files, clean up disk space

Boost performance by fixing Windows and managing unwanted processes

It's like 6 tools in one software, and its easy

WindowsFix How to ...

Hard drive Repair Tips

Protect your Hard Drive from Cyber hackers

home privacy research contact