~How to safeguard our personal and financial date?~

Nowadays, computer is common to everyone; we rely on computer to save our personal data and use computer to save our important documentary. In additions, due to lack of times, most of us will only use online financial service to do financial transactions such as e-banking, buying goods and etc. We have to be caution to safeguard our information and financial data from getting threat, unauthorized access, destruction, unauthorized disclosure or other compromise of information. There are some important ways I suggest for you all to safeguard our personal and financial data during using computer to make transactions:


1. Avoid using public computer to do financial transaction
Prevent from logging on to check your bank balance and do any financial transaction when access internet in a coffee shop that offers Wi-Fi. Although the systems are convenient but we do not know how powerful their firewalls are.

2. Do not allow unknown people use our computer
For our own convenience, we usually will safe most of important file or documentary in our computer. Therefore, we should ovoid from borrow others people from using our computer when we are not around. We may not know they will log in to search for our file or will search for what website.

3. Password protect
Password is the most important things to keep our data. The more high quality password is better. Try to avoid using our own identity number or any number that easily be guess as our password. This will prevent from hacker hack to our computer and stole our data.

4. Install and always update your antivirus
Install a good antivirus software such as Symantec and Norton antivirus, Kaspersky, or Avast antivirus to protect our computer from viruses, worm and Trojan that may destroy and steal the data in our computer. In addition, we have to update the antivirus from time to time due to new may virus occurs.

5. Regularly scan computer for spyware
We always search for information by using internet, using pen drive to copy data from others computer and safe in our own computer. Therefore, we may get virus from others computer or from the internet we search for information. As a result we have to regularly scan for our computer and remove any of the infected files that hidden in software programs which may affect the performance of our computer.