Securing your computer system

No out-of-the-box system is sure a computer system user must be a set of tasks to secure his system run. However, should note that even after such tasks your system always still is not 100% safe, but you would need to constantly monitor the system with the help of utilities and even education. Is an important step to ensure your it systems using trusted tools prevent that malicious activity and to alert you when an activity, although allowed to execute can be harmful. Self-education by reading and research from reliable sources help you understand your systems weaknesses and place you in a better position to protect the system against many threats. You can systems weaknesses of Windows such as message queuing and the DCOM RPC vulnerability have read or encountered some hacker tools that are available for free! The same goes for other platforms as well. There are weaknesses in password files for Linux machines where you can hack the login service for malicious purposes! Recently I have an article about Mac operating system vulnerabilities and read the story never end. Current operating systems are known, but safer, I'm pretty sure that new threats and vulnerabilities will keep us on haunting. To your system hardened, ensure you are up-to-date with the following steps: you keep updated with the latest security PatchesInstall protection tools such as such as antivirus, anti-malware/spam, host-based firewalls and monitoring programs - your system and applications keep up-to-date! with limited user accounts, disable unnecessary services, permissions and PoliciesEnable logging and notification set features – check logs! setting strong passwords

Most of the times, use malicious activity computer user errors and negligence so breakdowns happen due to the absence of preventive measures and lack of knowledge not allow!

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