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Computer Security:

The fundamental purpose of computer security is to guarantee that data would remain confidential, safe, authorized, unaffected by viruses and above all, the privacy of data will never be neglected at any cost.

Computer security is an important field of computer science and is basically meant to control the risks and threats coming during computer use and also make the computer in working state again. Security of Computers has become a critical issue for software developers now a day due to increase of Internet attacks and number of hackers in cyber world. In order to secure the system from hacker’s activities, many organization are trying to develop computer security software for their crucial data.

"Computer Security is not an extra thing or something from outside; it is component and packet of the entire lot you do with computers".

Some Safeguards for Computer Security:

Some things are to be taken as action in order to assure the reliability of the computer system.
Install Anti-Virus Programs and update them
For the purpose of computer security anti-virus software is developed to find certain errors within the computer system. This software detects most of the affected software but not all. Anti-virus programs search for the contents of each file with a specific sort of pattern to match a profile called Virus Signature; which is harmful to the computer programs. So this anti-virus program providing certain option in response sends alerts to the user and removes these viruses from the system to maintain the computer security.
Cautious while opening mails with attachments:
E-mails having viruses and worms are very common these days. Unknown mails contain harmful material with them as attachment that can destroy files and folders on your computer.

Some test is to be taken to get rid of these malicious programs like KRESV
  • The Know Test:
    Mail coming from a known person
  • The Received Test:
    Have you ever received mail from this address?
  • The Expected Test:
    Are you expecting some e-mail with some attachment?
  • The Sense Test:
    Does the subject line and attachment attached make sense?
  • The Virus Test:
    You have to installed anti-virus first to do this test.
Usage of Fire-wall program:
The basic purpose of fire-wall is to guard the computer system from all the incoming data or packets. It checks one by one and stops the unwanted stuff and let the others go into the system. This plays a magnificent role in maintaining the computer security.
System has to be password protected
This activity will not let the unauthorized user to access your data and important files and spoil them. The password has to be strong, unique, and practical and have to be changed periodically. This type of practices will help in keeping hold of computer security.
Make Back-up of critical files
In order not to lose significant files and data from the system, it should be saved in some other storage devices like CDs, tape etc.
Be careful while downloading & installing any Program:
To keep the computer security active, certain precautions have to be taken while downloading any software from the Internet. There might be some viruses attached with them and can effect or damage your system.


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