If something got through, we would be alerted immediately and we'd be able to get in there and shut that down. What that means is there's somebody manning that, seeing the data, the antivirus data from your computer, in real time, and ready to act on that. If you're in your business environment, and it's a business computer, what we really recommend is something that's more of an enterprise grade like Sentinel One- which is what we use for our clients, that is SOC monitored. There are other anti viruses as well, I don't, I don't recommend anything else.
Kaspersky is a Russian company, we've had to cross it off the list, we know that they're, you know, some shenanigans going on with that. Kaspersky used to be on my list, it used to be if you bought a computer at Costco, you would get a year or two of Kaspersky for free. I put Avast up there because it's free, but the other guys are better.īitdefender is fantastic. An effective antivirus protects against these and a lot of other kinds of malware. The bot herder is the person who's controlling the bot from Russia or, or somewhere in Southeast Asia. And then there are bots that turn your computer into a soldier in a zombie army ready to engage in denial of service attacks or spew spam or whatever the bot herder commands. But behind the scenes, they steal your information. Ransomware as you know, it encrypts your files, and it demands payment to restore them, and Trojan horse programs. We call this type of software antivirus but fending off actual computer viruses is just a small part of what they do. The first and most important thing is to install and maintain a good antivirus.
This is just all around stuff to do with technology and with your day to day life in technology. And this webinar is really about you personally, as opposed to just a business environment. There's a number of things that you do together. There's no one thing that you're going to do, that's going to keep the bad guys out.
Key Simple Security Steps - 10 Tips on How to Not Get Hacked 10 steps that will help keep you safe and hack free when combined together.
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