Buckle up, or it may get bumpy!


In the industry, computer users can be jokingly referred to as the Human User Interface, and when a user does something inadvisable it is called a ‘HUI error’. Obviously, that would never be applicable to you, but you may possibly know someone who generates HUI errors on a regular basis. Please feel free to pass this on to them.


So, if you don’t click on dubious website links and always keep a reputable security product up to date on your computer, what else do you need to know to keep your computer and data safe this coming year?


1. Anvirus is not enough. You need browser security and anmalware as well. Depending on version, your browser may already have some online safety features; make sure they are turned on. Anvirus doesn’t protect from ransomware, only the paid versions of HitmanPro.Alert or Malwarebytes or similar do that.


2. If you have an Apple Mac, you need security. As far back as 2012, 600,000 Macs were reported as being infected by one Trojan at one me.


3. Always keep your computer and programs up to date. One of the reasons Operang Systems like Windows and OSX are updated is to close security holes that have been found. The same is true of your programs.


4. Make sure your Internet browser is kept up to date.


5. Make sure your anvirus and other anmalware programs are kept up to date.


6. Use DropBox or Mozy to regularly backup or unplug any backup disk between backups.


7. Last and certainly not least, do not reuse Please menon The Lymington Directory when responding to adversements 11


passwords. Everyone does, nobody should. If you don’t fancy using an app to generate and keep random passwords, then think of phrases you will remember and use the first leer in each word. Best not to use the Peter Piper tongue twister though!


A full discussion of computer security is outside the remit of this arcle, but the incidence of ransomware and other vicious malware increased last year and is expected to further increase this year. Free anvirus and anmalware can be effecve, but won’t give you full protecon, and the cost rapidly tots up. However, how much would it cost if you had to start all over again from scratch?


BTW, iPads currently can’t get directly infected; you would have to download a malicious app or use a non‐Apple sync program.


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