“Why would someone hack my computer?”

I’ve been asked this so many times I can’t count it anymore.

Business owners, Office managers, home owners and children have all asked me “Why would someone hack my computer?” as if it were something personal. IT IS NOT.

The truth is, nowadays, when your computer gets hacked, it’s because your computer replied to an automatic scanning software that someone runs on his computer - either because he is infected or because he is just an arsehole who does this - either way, it is _automaticly done_.

There is nothing personal to do with it in ANY way, shape or form.

If you computer answers the call, you get attacked. And you will see neither the call, nor the answer.

What will you see?

Your computer will start hanging, it won’t respond, you will see lockups and in general you’ll wonder why it doesn’t work the way it did when you bought it and most of you will think you need to buy a new computer.

So you’ll go out to the local electroncs shop or the computer cataloug, order a new computer and wonder why the same thing is hapening again in six months and your computer vendor will tell you to wipe your computer and re-install everything as it was when it was new which of course makes it work again - for another 6 months.

You’ve been attacked, because you didn’t protect yourself.

Nothing more.

In your computer you have data that can be used to destroy your finances, yet most users protect their computer less than they protect their bicycle.

So the next time you see your computer start hanging, or it won’t respond and you see lockups, just know that you protected your computer less than you did your bicycle.

Find out what protects your computer, and find out what doesn’t, and DON”T take the word of an advertisement for this. Advertisements push sales. Period. You need to find out what WORKS, not what looks pretty in 4-color glossy print with a bikini-clad girl standing next to it bragging about how her life has changed because of the latest whiz-bang from Mega Corporation.

Look for real world tests and reviews of what you want to use, buy it and use it.

If you buy a new computer again see your computer hanging, it won’t respond and you see lockups, just know that you paid more attention to that 4-color glossy than the research you were supposed to do.