How to Stay Secure in the Age of the Internet

Almost everyone these days is dependent on the Internet. We live, work, and shop on the Internet. We use it for entertainment and for finding holidays. Often we spend evenings connected to the Internet. Slowly but surely, we are becoming more dependent on the Internet. Despite the enormous reliance we have on the Internet, few of us know spend much time trying to understand the security of the computers we use to connect to the Internet, yet this is of paramount importance. Hardly a day goes by without hearing about computers that have been infected by a worm, a trojan, a virus, spyware, adware or malware, or which have become part of a botnet. This article discusses these issues and what you can do about it.

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