Fast Security Tips to Start 2011

Quick PC Security Tips for 2011

Here are some quick computer security tips to help ensure better security.

1. Make sure your antivirus and anti-malware is updated
2. Make sure your Windows Operating System is updated
3. If you have a 3rd party software firewall ensure it is up-to-date
4. Ensure the browsers are the latest to date
5. Make sure Java is updated
6. Ensure even your media players are up-to-date

This tasks actually do not take that long but could save alot of time and money.

Happy New Year from PC Virus Doctors' Dallas PC Support!!!

Dallas Computer Repair Addresses PC Security

In a 60 Minutes report on national cyber security, the news was quite bleak affecting our national cyber defense. Many of our military and civilian installations have been hacked and are vulnerable to attacks, according to the article. This is startling news as our bank accounts can be hacked, along with electric companies where electric could be shut down, water facilities could be hacked and water cut off to entire cities, and this problem goes on and on.

Personal computer users can do their part in ameliorating potential problems by installing the following computer utilities, understanding how these utilities work and using the PC utilities to their fullest potential.

• Firewalls
• Anti-virus
• Anti-spyware

We can only do our part of citizens but utilizing the above utilities whether you buy hardware firewalls or use software as firewalls, keep antiviruses installed, updated and running along with anti-spyware then you are doing your part. US citizens are obliged to take care of our network so we can continue to buy and do other business on the internet.

Dallas Computer Repair Urges Shoring-up Security

PCVDs' Dallas computer repair is asking all personal PC users to shore-up their computer security by ensuring all anti-viruses are updated along with firewalls running the latest updates as several security articles emerge.

TechNewsWorld reports that utility companies using smart meters to monitor energy distribution across the U.S. electrical grid are continuing to depend on internet smart meters to determine where the energy distribution should take place on the grid. The lack of security in the system has had the ire of lawmakers and security experts. The problem appears, as PDVDs' Dallas Computer Repair is that the energy providers are not adequately securing and monitoring their own systems to prevent hacking and energy disruption.

Another news story that broke about Twitter was that they were hit with a Denial of Service (DoS), by Russians upset over a Georgia blogger, that also affected Facebook's individual users along with Facebook businesses.

Another blog by Dallas Laptop Repair also reports security problems this week that PCVDs' Dallas Computer Repair urges attention be given.

Lock Your Doors for Computer Security

Marc Weber Tobias, an investigative attorney and security specialist out of Sioux Falls, S.D. says the first line of defense in computer security is to make sure the physical access to computers is locked and secure. Tobias who will speaking at the Hack in the Box Security Conference 2007 said that 95% of tumbler locks can be compromised with a blank key and then "bumped" with a mallet or similar instrument that pushes the pins of the lock up where the lock can be opened. A simple procedure where picked locks produce a big cache for thieves.

Dallas Computer Repair urges home owners, office owners and IT staff to buy the most secure locks to ensure their confidential data is not compromised or where computers and laptops may be stolen.