The Lurking Dangers of Online

Online dangers range on two ends of the scale. One side regards the stealing of one's identity or financial information, while the other end deals with viruses. Well, everyone has their own opinions on the matter of what is worst, but it all boils down to the need to protect oneself and family online.

As many of the people saw, on my last post I discussed the need for reputation management in some cases. Honestly, who would have thought we would have to worry about someone bad mouthing us online and tearing apart our business as a repercussion? Unfortunately the internet does not just involve predators, viruses, bad mouthing, but rather a whole array of different hidden dangers that people need to watch for.

On one occasion, I remember how someone hacked into my computers (mac) and stole a whole bunch of programs from the computer that were worth quite a bit of money. After doing this, they were so kind as to trash a lot of the stuff on my computer, so that it would no longer work and also did me the favor of hacking into the router and gaining control of that while they were at it. I mean, how kind. Prior to this, my PC had a virus that took pictures of all the information that I was doing on the computer. This virus was so intelligent, just imagine if the person behind it actually used their mind for good rather than this nonsense.

Unfortunately without the right protection on your computer or the knowledge of how to use the computer, this is the type of stuff that happens. With the mac, I had the airport on since this was new to me and I did not understand it and the PC, well PC and I have always had our differences, but slowly he and I are starting to get better acquainted. For some reason the mac turned out as an easier computer for use, after learning the ins and outs of it, rather than the PC, which has been a struggle for years. For some reasons, I'm very good at getting viruses on it, whether or not there is a anti-virus on it.

Soon I'll write more on this matter and would enjoy any comments people have to offer. Thanks.