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Ensuring the Safety and Security of Your Home Computer

With the popularity of and the reliance on the Internet by almost the entire world population, there are suddenly a lot of things you can do and know with literally one click of the mouse. Making purchases nowadays doesn’t require you to go to the shop or store; you can buy items online. Researching for various pieces of information can now be accomplished via the Internet.

However, there is an unfortunate reality that goes along with the wonders of the Internet. It also thanks to the Internet that computer security is always an issue. With the continued growth of the dependency of people (including businessmen, offices, government officials, and more) on computers and the Internet, this is a more important issue than what most believe.

If you are a home computer user, you still need to make sure that your computer is safe from any form of malicious online attack, including hacking. You might have important data (including any identification) in your computer which intruders can have access to. That being said, it is important for you to find out just how safe your computer is from these potential attacks.
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If you’ve been on the internet for any period of time you’ve likely hear the term IP address.  IP address stands for Internet Protocol address. The Ip address is a number that is unique to each computer or system that is connecting to the world wide web. The sole purpose of having such a specific address is for tracking each individual internet connection. It identified the user in much the same way a telephone number or street address would in the offline world. A network is used in which electronic devices can communicate with each other. An IP Addresses will be configured like this: 127.72.16.137.

Thanks to IP addresses, your computer can be easily identified in particular situations. For example, most Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have a database in which they store each of their client’s IP addresses.

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I’ve received more “greetings” in the past month than I received in all my years before. Are there spammer conventions where they all get together and decide and agree to innudate us with the same tactic over and over and over again? I suppose the first two or three spammers who tried it got some results. But hopefully the tactic loses it’s effectiveness after the fifth, or tenth, or fiftieth time the same scam heading appears in one’s inbox. My favorite spam filter handles all of this really well, but if you’re wondering how to spot the fakes from the real greetings just watch the video.

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