{"id":407,"date":"2016-11-30T17:52:22","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T17:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/?p=407"},"modified":"2016-11-30T17:52:22","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T17:52:22","slug":"today-is-computer-security-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/2016\/11\/30\/today-is-computer-security-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Today is Computer Security Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Computer-Virus-Red-Letters-Malware-Blog-Post.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-408\" src=\"http:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Computer-Virus-Red-Letters-Malware-Blog-Post.jpg\" alt=\"A Virus Embedded In The Computer Code\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a>November 30th 2016 is Computer\u00a0Security Day.\u00a0\u00a0As so\u00a0many people are victimized by online criminals these days, make sure you do the following to minimize the chance of having your identity, data, or money, stolen.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1.\u00a0 Make sure you have Windows updates enabled.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2.\u00a0 Install an antivirus and keep it up-to-date.<\/p>\n<p>3.\u00a0 Backup your data often.<\/p>\n<p>4.\u00a0 Use strong passwords that will be difficult to hack.<\/p>\n<p>5.\u00a0 Remove unused programs from your PC to keep malware from getting into your computer through them.<\/p>\n<p>6.\u00a0 Stay out of bad neighborhoods on the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>7.\u00a0 Make sure Windows firewall is turned on.<\/p>\n<p>8.\u00a0 Secure your home network to ensure strangers aren\u2019t using it.<\/p>\n<p>9.\u00a0 Don\u2019t download anything from the Internet unless you completely trust the website.<\/p>\n<p>10.\u00a0 Never call phone numbers that pop-up on your PC screen telling you to call because you have a virus.<\/p>\n<p>11.\u00a0 Never allow anyone to remote into your computer that called you and told you that you have malware on your PC.<\/p>\n<p>There is also a good post on this subject:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.equicore.com\/10-things-to-secure-your-digital-life\/\">10 Ways to Secure Your Digital Life<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 30th 2016 is Computer\u00a0Security Day.\u00a0\u00a0As so\u00a0many people are victimized by online criminals these days, make sure you do the following to minimize the chance of having your identity, data, or money, stolen. 1.\u00a0 Make sure you have Windows updates enabled. 2.\u00a0 Install an antivirus and keep it up-to-date. 3.\u00a0 Backup your data often. 4.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}