How To...  Hacker-Proof your Computer

Well... maybe not hacker-PROOF. Technology is always evolving. New discoveries are being made every day. It is impossible to make any computer 100% safe if it is connected to the internet. However there are things that can be done to make it MUCH more difficult for a bad guy to exploit your system.

Laptop or desktop, your computer is valuable to black hat hackers. They can steal your personal information or hijack your resources to go after someone else, framing you for the crime.

There are a lot of things that can be done to make your computer more safe, from simple to advanced. We have developed a step-by-step process that can be used to configure a computer in such a way as to make it very difficult for a black hat to exploit. While some of the steps in this process may seem advanced, we have provided screen shots and explainations for each. If you complete this checklist, your computer will be much more resistant to attack.

If you would like a relativly easy list, these items will provide you protection against like 98% of the stuff out there:

• A good anti-virus program,
• A firewall
• The advice on these pages(How To... Protect your laptop, How To... Protect your information when using a laptop

If you want to move from 98% closer to 100% (or maybe 99.97%), then you should check this out.

How to... Setup A Secure Home Computer

There is sort of a lot of stuff in this, so we recommend that you print this document or have it open on another computer than the one on which you are working...