Basic things you need to know on protecting your privacy on your PC

Privacy issues on pcs have become an issue that cannot be ignored, more especially as spywares and malwares are getting more pronounced. Just anyone can steal your information on your computer these days, and it is becoming very hard to protect your privacy without unplugging your computer. Your computer privacy can be regarded as the ability to control the amount of information you reveal about yourself over the PC, it helps you control how information on your PC are accessed.

Your pc will always keep tons of information about the website you visit every day, all documents, pictures, folders, files, and videos you created or opened, emails, passwords and forum names you have used; Banks and credit card information you have stored or inputted , online shopping activities { including shopping pages}, your social networking activities { including phone calls made on Skype, yahoo and the likes}, and all other photos and data you have shared with other people and many others.

You can actually generate secured passwords which hackers will find difficult to break into.

We always use keywords to access a number of applications on our pcs everyday, such applications including bank accounts, email accounts, face book and twitter accounts. Almost everyone wants to use short passwords that can be easily remembered and aside this most people will prefer to use the same passwords for a whole lot of applications. This act of using short passwords and using the same password for every application will make your pc much more vulnerable to virus attacks, and spywares and your information can be easily stolen.

Here is what you can do.

Always learn to avoid the use of easily cracked passwords, you need to know that generic and default passwords such as pass. User, guess, love, password, 2010 and others alike can be easily detected by a password tracker used by a PC hacker. Meaningful words such as lion, Mary, my love, dragon, USA, myspouse and the likes. All these must be avoided when choosing a password for any application on pcs. You also need to know that an automated cracking tool used by a hacker can also detect easily your personal names, birthdates and special occasion words, hence you shouldn’t use such.

Try as much as possible to create different passwords for different applications. You can make use of a mixture of numbers and uncommon words which cannot easily be detected by a password cracking device. Add words with numbers where possible and try as much as possible to use special characters such as -, _, #, and many more.