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Story: Broadband boom makes UK worst for hacked PCs

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It is apparent to me, that this could be a growing trend in terms of things to come. We might possibly be seeing more systems taken over by malicious background programs which have the ability to do everything from sending information on the user, to coordinating multiple denial of service attacks against unsuspecting systems without the user being aware of the background processes running on their system. I believe people need to be clearly informed of the importance of continually updating an antivirus application as well as running with a software fire wall of some form or another. Based on my own personal experience I would recommend zone alarm, or semantics software firewall application which is also brilliant. Ultimately, the best form of security any of us could hope to have would be a current backup of your system on a nonchangeable medium. Or a medium which is not physically attached to the computer system in question. This will prevent the contamination of the backup. Therefore, if you should happen to notice that your system is behaving in a strange manner which is not customary to your machine. Since I believe we all learn the personality to each of our computers to a certain degree. There's a possibility that your system may have been compromised, and restoring your system to what it was originally will not be a great headache. For businesses, this could prevent the loss of many man-hours or the compromise of other sensitive information.

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