Youre Computer Safe but is your family

Youre Computer Safe but is your family

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You're Computer Safe, but is your family?

This is a very old story, and never changes. What's worse is when you're a child and your parents are the ones controlling the computer and they are the unsafe ones. It never fails and something always goes wrong with it. Well although there may be ways around this, I'm not about to tell you how to override your parents settings, but what I can do is tell the parents (hopefully you're the safe one) one of the greatest ways to protect your computer and tell you how to avoid losing any of your files.

User Accounts. Whether you're using a Macintosh or a PC you can always set up user accounts. When you do there's a many options you can set for each user. Set up one account for each person. Never allow two to share. One, as a parent you can monitor your child's activities without a doubt who's been using that account, and two it's actually prevents fighting among the other people of the house, when it comes to something as personal as a background picture. Once you've set up each account remember to give each on their own password, and keep them somewhere where you will always have it. Here's the fun part. In each account you can specify exactly what your kids can and can't do, and one of those is the ability to throw away anything. By making it so the other users can't delete you make it so they never lose anything like that term paper they've been working on. You can see all setting for yourself, just remember that you should only make one admin of the computer. That is You. You control what is happening on your computer. If you kids want to delete their trash go and check what's in it to make sure all is good.

Outside of giving each person their own account, you also stop them from downloading any viruses or spyware. Programs that could possible delete your precious system files or any file for that matter. Only you install, only you delete.

Your kids may argue with you, but in today's advanced world you're doing them a favor whether they believe it or not. That's, of course, if you're the one who's actually the responsible computer person.

However being you're the admin you can still accidentally delete files, or download malware. So right now, stop what you're doing and get yourself a computer file recovery program. Make sure you have virus and spyware protection, make sure you have firewall protection. I'll get into why a firewall is so important to the privacy of your computer files in my next blog.

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