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We use Internet for sending /receiving information, downloading files, online shopping, transferring money etc. Even though, this has made life easy for all of us, we must remember the potential; threats and the consequences of this.

We all do online shopping, book tickets where we give our credit card information. This can be easily misused by hackers. Apart from this, hackers hack passwords and usernames and prove to be big threat for confidential information.

We download lot of information from the web on a daily basis and not having proper anti – virus software, can damage your computer completely and damage the information stored in it permanently.

Anti – virus soft wares are available on CD’s which can be purchased. Also, new and new virus come everyday, hence, it is essential to keep yourself updated with the potential threats and also update your anti – virus software every 15 days.

One should not reply on only one medium of storing important data. In case of a virus attack, it can prove to be very expensive. One should also store data in other devices such as a USB key, or in a back up folder on the server.