Monday, 28 May 2012
Installing an Anti-virus product
To install anti virus first you start up your system then you put the anti-virus software disk in then you click on the anti-virus which is AVG then i went and clicked on AVg 7-5 free-4321361 then i accepted the license agreement then i checked my system
status then I left it at standard installation then clicked next then I put my company name in and clicked finish then it installed I kept the daily scanning at
low priority then clicked next and scanned my computer then it came up
with no virus then I clicked next then I clicked finish
Monday, 21 May 2012
Different Types Of Protection Software
Anti-Virus Software: is used to prevent, detect and remove malware, such as: computer viruses, adware, backdoors, malicious BHOs, dialers, fraudtools, hijackers, keyloggers, malicious LSPs, rootkits, spyware, trojan horses and worms. Computer security, including protection from social engineering
techniques, is commonly offered in products and services of antivirus
software companies. This page discusses the software used for the
prevention and removal of malware threats, rather than computer security implemented by software methods.
A variety of strategies are typically employed. Signature-based detection involves searching for known patterns of data within executable code. However, it is possible for a computer to be infected with new malware for which no signature is yet known. To counter such so-called zero-day threats, heuristics
can be used. One type of heuristic approach, generic signatures, can
identify new viruses or variants of existing viruses by looking for
known malicious code, or slight variations of such code, in files. Some
antivirus software can also predict what a file will do by running it in
a sandbox and analyzing what it does to see if it performs any malicious actions.
No matter how useful antivirus software can be, it can sometimes have drawbacks. Antivirus software can impair a computer's performance. Inexperienced users may also have trouble understanding the prompts and decisions that antivirus software presents them with. An incorrect decision may lead to a security breach. If the antivirus software employs heuristic detection, success depends on achieving the right balance between false positives and false negatives. False positives can be as destructive as false negatives. Finally, antivirus software generally runs at the highly trusted kernel level of the operating system, creating a potential avenue of attack.
Firewall: can either be software-based or hardware-based and is used to help keep a network secure. Its primary objective is to control the incoming and outgoing network traffic by analyzing the data packets and determining whether it should be allowed through or not, based on a predetermined rule set. A network's firewall builds a brigade between an internal network that is assumed to be secure and trusted, and another network, usually an external (inter)network, such as the Internet, that is not assumed to be secure and trusted.
Many personal computer operating systems include software-based firewalls to protect against threats from the public Internet. Many routers that pass data between networks contain firewall components and, conversely, many firewalls can perform basic routing functions.
Anti-Spyware:helps protect your computer against pop-ups, slow performance, and security threats caused by spyware and other unwanted software
Anti-Spam:To prevent email spam both end users and administrators of email systems use various anti-spam techniques. Some of these techniques have been embedded in products, services and software to ease the burden on users and administrators. No one technique is a complete solution to the spam problem, and each has trade-offs between incorrectly rejecting legitimate email vs. not rejecting all spam, and the associated costs in time and effort.
Anti-spam techniques can be broken into four broad categories: those that require actions by individuals, those that can be automated by email administrators, those that can be automated by email senders and those employed by researchers and law enforcement officials.
No matter how useful antivirus software can be, it can sometimes have drawbacks. Antivirus software can impair a computer's performance. Inexperienced users may also have trouble understanding the prompts and decisions that antivirus software presents them with. An incorrect decision may lead to a security breach. If the antivirus software employs heuristic detection, success depends on achieving the right balance between false positives and false negatives. False positives can be as destructive as false negatives. Finally, antivirus software generally runs at the highly trusted kernel level of the operating system, creating a potential avenue of attack.
Firewall: can either be software-based or hardware-based and is used to help keep a network secure. Its primary objective is to control the incoming and outgoing network traffic by analyzing the data packets and determining whether it should be allowed through or not, based on a predetermined rule set. A network's firewall builds a brigade between an internal network that is assumed to be secure and trusted, and another network, usually an external (inter)network, such as the Internet, that is not assumed to be secure and trusted.
Many personal computer operating systems include software-based firewalls to protect against threats from the public Internet. Many routers that pass data between networks contain firewall components and, conversely, many firewalls can perform basic routing functions.
Anti-Spyware:helps protect your computer against pop-ups, slow performance, and security threats caused by spyware and other unwanted software
Anti-Spam:To prevent email spam both end users and administrators of email systems use various anti-spam techniques. Some of these techniques have been embedded in products, services and software to ease the burden on users and administrators. No one technique is a complete solution to the spam problem, and each has trade-offs between incorrectly rejecting legitimate email vs. not rejecting all spam, and the associated costs in time and effort.
Anti-spam techniques can be broken into four broad categories: those that require actions by individuals, those that can be automated by email administrators, those that can be automated by email senders and those employed by researchers and law enforcement officials.
Legal Ways Of Downloading Multi-Media Content.
Itunes:Types of media avaliable are music , movies, tv shows and apps for the ipod , iphone and ipad
Sells media at a range of prices i.e. 69p for a Music track, 5.99 or more for a Album, £10 or more for the klatest movies. TV shows can be bought on a per episode or per series basis. You can watch itunes media on a PC or I Phone or IPad or laptop.
Netflix: This is a site where you can watch tv programms and films for £6:00 a month can be used on the xbox 360, playstation 3 , PS Vita, ipad, iphone, ipod and other devices. you can watch movies and tv shows and it also it streams the movies and tv shows for £6:00 a month you can watch it from a computer, you need xbox live gold to use it on the xbox 360, playstation 3, Ps vita, ipad, iphone and other devices
Playstation Store:types of media avaliable games and movies/tv shows used on playstation 3 and PS Vita. you can use this to buy games whic cost £30 or more and you can buy or rent movies or tv shows for about £20to buy movies and tv shows and about £5 to rent movies and tv shows or more you can do this on a PS3 and PS Vita and play the games you bought or watch the movies you rented/bought as well.
Sells media at a range of prices i.e. 69p for a Music track, 5.99 or more for a Album, £10 or more for the klatest movies. TV shows can be bought on a per episode or per series basis. You can watch itunes media on a PC or I Phone or IPad or laptop.
Netflix: This is a site where you can watch tv programms and films for £6:00 a month can be used on the xbox 360, playstation 3 , PS Vita, ipad, iphone, ipod and other devices. you can watch movies and tv shows and it also it streams the movies and tv shows for £6:00 a month you can watch it from a computer, you need xbox live gold to use it on the xbox 360, playstation 3, Ps vita, ipad, iphone and other devices
Playstation Store:types of media avaliable games and movies/tv shows used on playstation 3 and PS Vita. you can use this to buy games whic cost £30 or more and you can buy or rent movies or tv shows for about £20to buy movies and tv shows and about £5 to rent movies and tv shows or more you can do this on a PS3 and PS Vita and play the games you bought or watch the movies you rented/bought as well.
Monday, 16 April 2012
Internet Usage Acceptable Use Policy
A Internet usage acceptable use policy is a set of rules applied by the owner/manager of a network, website, or large computer system that restrict the ways in which the network site or system may be used. AUP documents are written for corporations, businesses, universites, schools, internet service providers, and website owners, often to reduce the potential for legal action that may be taken by a user, and often with little prospect of enforcement.
10 inappropite student behaviours
10. student should not use thumb drives to acess romeote proxy web sites.
9. Students should not use the college's computing falicites for the business purpose of anyone other than the college.
8.Students must NOT be logged on to more than one computer at any one time(No multiple logins)
7.Students must not send any communication y computer facilitiesthat would not be authorized on paper format.
6.Unauthorised acess to, or alteration or deletion of data stored on College computer facilities.
5.Without authorisation, atempting to use,or actual use of another user's password, files,, discs or data or alteration/deletion of another user's material.
4.Circumventing or attempting to circumvent or overcome any security system designed to protect the college's computing facilities.
3.Students must not copy software to or from the computer facilities without authorisation
2.Students must not do anything which could harm the College's reputation.
1.Students must not acess, store or send abusive, defamatory, offensive, pornographic, sexually suggestive, racist, riasectan or unlawful material
10 inappropite student behaviours
10. student should not use thumb drives to acess romeote proxy web sites.
9. Students should not use the college's computing falicites for the business purpose of anyone other than the college.
8.Students must NOT be logged on to more than one computer at any one time(No multiple logins)
7.Students must not send any communication y computer facilitiesthat would not be authorized on paper format.
6.Unauthorised acess to, or alteration or deletion of data stored on College computer facilities.
5.Without authorisation, atempting to use,or actual use of another user's password, files,, discs or data or alteration/deletion of another user's material.
4.Circumventing or attempting to circumvent or overcome any security system designed to protect the college's computing facilities.
3.Students must not copy software to or from the computer facilities without authorisation
2.Students must not do anything which could harm the College's reputation.
1.Students must not acess, store or send abusive, defamatory, offensive, pornographic, sexually suggestive, racist, riasectan or unlawful material
Internet Security Suites
Internet Security Suites
Trend Micro Titanium Internet Security 2012
It costs $69.95 It’s
features are:
Strong Antivirus Protection Made Simple
From the main Titanium Internet Security console screen, you
can easily run an antivirus scan or get up-to-the-minute status reports on your
computer’s security.
Easy-to-Understand Security Reports
Easy-to-read graphic reports provide you with all the details
about the Internet threats that attack your computer. You can drill down into
detailed security logs with just one click.
Friendly, Adjustable Parental Controls
Without having to look over their shoulders, you can easily
protect your children from inappropriate websites, limit their time on the
Internet, and see detailed activity reports about what they do online.
Data Theft Prevention
Prevent hackers and spyware from stealing credit card
numbers, passwords, email addresses, and other sensitive data.
Securely Erase Documents
Deleting a file just removes the directory information used
to find it, but not the actual data. The Secure Erase feature overwrites
deleted files with random data, so that the contents can’t be retrieved. For
even more security, the Permanent Erase option overwrites files seven times and
meets United States government data security standards.
The Requirements for the system:
Windows® 7 Family (32 or 64-bit)
800 MHz (1 GHz
recommended)
Memory: 1GB
Disk Space: 400MB
Other Requirements:
Web Browser:
Microsoft® Internet
Explorer® 7.0, 8.0, or 9.0
PDF Reader: Any
Review
Internet security suites go beyond simple antivirus
protection to include email scanning, identity protection and parental
controls. comes with exceptionally adept parental controls, and extra PC
licenses are surprisingly affordable. Trend Micro offers this suite in
reasonably priced three, five or 10 licenses packages so you can easily secure
all the PCs and laptops that your family uses.
Our reluctance to place this security suite higher in our
ranking stems from inconsistent test results. In March 2011 running Windows 7
they scored 3.5 (out of 6) by AV-Test in protection, repair and usability.
However, in August running the same OS they scored 4.5, 2 and 5. A score of 2
out of 6 in repair is not reassuring.
AVG Internet Security 2012
It costs $54.99
Features:
Protection that speeds
up your PC
AVG Accelerator
AVG Accelerator maximizes your computer’s connectivity to
deliver content faster. It accelerates the download of binary files and
minimizes the hangs and delays while watching videos on YouTube. AVG
Accelerator is enabled as a default setting when you switch on.
AVG System Tools
Block hackers and stop identity thieves
AVG Enhanced Firewall
The AVG Enhanced Firewall protects you from malicious attacks
by examining communications on each network port. When the Firewall recognizes
an intrusion attempt it will immediately block it and keep your private
information safe from inbound attacks, as well as outbound attacks where
malicious software takes control of your computer and attempts to cause damage
to other people.
The Requirements for the system
Intel Pentium 1.5 GHz (1.8 GHz recommended)
1000 MB free hard drive space for installation (1400 MB
recommended)
512 MB RAM available
Operating Systems: Windows XP, Vista and 7 (32/64 bit for
all)
AVG's LinkScanner technology is compatible with:
Microsoft Internet Explorer
Review
Protection
In terms of independent tests, AVG is one of the top
performers. Since December of 2010, they earned an average of 5 out of 6 in
protection, 4/6 in repair and 4.5/6 in usability from AV-Test running Windows
XP, Vista and 7. These scores are not perfect; however, only two products in
this review earned 6/6 from AV-Test.
Security Features
This internet security software includes most of the features
you need to protect your computer and keep your AVG security software
up-to-date. You can schedule scans and updates, play games uninterrupted,
protect your identity, scan USB drives and discs, and it will pause or delay
scans when you laptop battery is running low.
I think AVG Internet
Security 2012 is the best on to use
Monday, 26 March 2012
Creating a blog
i created my blog account by putting my google username and password in then i cliked sign in then asked me to put in my display name and gender and then to create my first post i cliked create ne blog then i gave it a title, address and a template the internet safety isues that process raises are have a strong password to protect your details you want to protect your details because it's got your information on it.
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