How To Keep Your Computer Safe

Tips and Resources

A Few Final Words of Advice:

Don’t Panic! Even if your computer has been infected, don’t panic! Don’t start deleting files or making changes unless you are sure about what you’re doing. Otherwise you could cause even more damage to your system

If you think you’ve been infected, do some research. Use the resources we have listed below to find more information.

And last, but certainly not least, be sure to back up your important files on a regular basis (to CD-ROM, another hard drive, or a floppy disk), just in case your system gets corrupted. That way your files can be restored.

Resources:

http://getnetwise.org/

http://www.spywareguide.com/product_search.php

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/

http://antivirus.about.com/od/emailscams/ss/phishing.htm

http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/

Smart Computing Magazine (www.smartcomputing.com)

How To Do Everything To Fight Spam, Viruses, Pop-Ups and Spyware, by Ken Feinstein – on order at Smyrna Library (search the library catalog)

Degunking Your Email, Spam and Viruses, by Jeff Duntemann – 005.84 DUNT at Linebaugh Library (search the library catalog)

Firewalls for Dummies, by Brian Kornar – 005.8 KOM at Smyrna Library

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Last Updated: 6 January 2005