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Computer Hacking Protection - A How-To

With the IT era booming, you could hardly find a home without a desktop or laptop. Every moment there has been a revolutionary change in the way we think of leading our life in the era of computer. The advent of the wireless network system has changed the way of life. With the advancement of technology life's becoming more and more exciting indeed! Wireless network systems are pretty appreciated, as it is quite a lot useful, as long as you know how to use it properly. For newbie it can turn out to be a scary nightmare!Have you ever spared a thought over the security issue? The network security is of high importance; vulnerable security will allow strangers to connect to it and use it in many ways they wish to! Cyber crime involves a lot of unlawful acts such as tracking private and confidential information, spam sending, incorporating hacking code into your website(s) and other illegal acts that might even block of your internet connectivity.First off... set up a good password - not the just the nick name of your girlfriend or boyfriend, suffixed with a few digits is enough. Set up a password that is not only alfa-numeric but also includes some special characters at a random order. Understand the value of the password, which is a secret key to your network, which should be known to only you and the other people of your network. This will ask people who would try to connect to your network, thereby filter out the people that you don't want to be within your network and from having a free access to internet. This way you can steer clear of unwanted intruders and keep your network safe.Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) encryption is potent than Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) encryption. Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) can be easily broken and cannot provide 100% security to IEEE 802.11 wireless networks and therefore is a strongly non-recommended algorithm to secure wireless networks. Evidences are there that WEP has been exposed to key attacks many times. It is highly recommended to consider enable Wi-Fi Protected Access encryption, as it effectively prevents unwanted and unrecognized intrusions. For the security purpose the Wi-Fi Protected Access support is built into the latest Service Packs for Windows XP.I would want you to disable the remote administration which can be seen in most of the WLAN routers. With the remote administration enabled you are exposed to the risk of being victimized by cyber crimes, as anybody can track your network and will be able to get an access to it. I would always suggest you to de-activate the remote administration if you do not require it at all.Last but not the least, you cannot deny the importance a potent anti-virus. It is not only important to install the anti-virus to your computer, but also equally important to get it installed on all the computers of your network! In order to prevent virus transfer or transfer of Trojen Horses, worms and spy bots or any other similar programs I would recommend certain names, the worth mentioning of which are Kaspersky, Norton, Nod 32, AVG, Avast etc.One very important thing that is quite relevant to the current topic is the risk of loading the Share Point List items from an SP lists. If you need to do so you can offload your headache to programs like Blind Share Point List Loader - a really effective program that you can bank upon.At every single step you might face danger across the web; you cannot stop it! Just use your common sense and be careful.