How Safe are You from Cyber Attack?

Hi

Before writing this my Pc was completely secured because it was off. (lol)

No fear of the smartest hacker when pc is off.

have fun.

I use Norton products and they seem to work well. My uses Macaffee products and they don't do the job Norton does and she has had problems. Mr son uses a free one off of the Inet that works well. My HP laptop has a finger print identifier that works well. I have been thinking about encryption but I don't know enough about it yet to pick out a good one. Having five years of tax data sitting in two places makes me think encryption is needed.

We both use Ccleaner to clean up the computer a little after each Inet session. All automatic updates and searches for available updates have been turned off. Once a month I go through a list of things that could need an update. I would like to see a piece of software that holds a list of things to check for updates that I can initiate whenever I feel like it.

I have never been hacked and my wife has.

I use Kaspersky Internet Security at home and so far, i've been lucky...Yet my friend, an IT Sr. Mgr. has been hacked twice in the last six months.

Go Figure!

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Spy vs. Spy M

I don't keep any data that I think is sensitive on any computer hard drive. I put sensitive files on external drive which remains turned off and disconnected until use. Backup files on flash drive/CD locked away behind closed doors.

My computers are only tools, NOT storage devices.

My main desktop (hooked up to 40" screen) serves the primary purpose of a Multimedia workstation. It is where I mix/master music recordings, watch TV/movies, and surf the net.

My Laptop does my field work, and is rarely hooked into the internet, and again, only holds the programs, not the files. If I end up getting a bug in past my firewall/antivirus software, a quick wipe of the hard drive, and a complete re-install of all software will ensure all systems are clean. If I have a doubt, I'll wipe it all clean. I can do a complete reformat, and re-install in about an hour to an hour and a half.

So far on my new high performance machine I have had no issues (knock on wood)... But I don't really have anything anyone would be interested in it anyway. Maybe a few copies of some "work in progress" Live Audio track from last weekends show or something.

For Less-Than-Critical information, I typically upload all that stuff to a SFTP site I own, and have granted all my "people" access to.

My old laptop (with kapersky, or however you spell it) got infected multiple times... I think that hard drive must have been reformatted at least a dozen times.

No point in taking any chances.

Whatever Technology is developed to over come the cyber crimes - the opposite intelligence is parallaly and equaly growing. Hence safe-guard is a mere chance or co-incidence.

No escape possible and we have to live with it.

The answer to the question is YES, and loss experienced by me..

RAJESWARI.