Top 10 Windows Laptop Threats
What are the most common failures of laptop security?
Some of these are physical handling issues and some are web-surfing
issues. If you get these right, you have more than half the battle
against hackers won.
10. Go to all sorts of sites and leave unnecessarily personal information there, so people decode your patterns easily.
9. Dump your coffee in the keyboard occasionally.
8. Leave your laptop baking in the trunk all day.
7.5 Surf unsafe sites (porn, hackerz sitez and so on)
7. Download anything that is free, with no regard to whether you are interested in the product, or trust the site owners.
6. Avoid using a software firewall, that can block some infections and (if your laptop is infected) keep you from infecting others.
5. Let your anti-Virus Software expire, or never update the virus definitions - or just disable the anti-virus, since it takes so long to run.
4. Set the Password on your BIOS and forget the password. The first half is pretty good security because it stops anybody from accessing the data in your hardrive without disassembling the laptop, but forgetting the password means an expensive trip to the authorized repair center to have the password cleared.
3. Open all attachments, regardless where they appear to originate. This is an excellent way to get and spread viruses and worms.
2. Choose a blank password or set the machine to log you in automatically with no “log-in” dialog box. This is dangerous on a physically secure computer. A mobile laptop is usually in harms way, even if the harm seems harmless, like letting a child play with your computer.
and
Number One
Leave your laptop where it may be easily stolen! Carry it where you do not need it and be obvious about it.
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