protect yourself from malicious hackers

**Kunal Singh** · 12-01-2010 06:52 AM

1. Anti-virus
Always have a trusted and regularly updated Antivirus installed in your system. There are many great Antiviruses available such as McAfee, Symantec etc. to name a few. Make sure that all the updates of the Antivirus are installed so that it can be on top off the latest threats that are lurking the internet.
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Many Trojans and malwares can gain access into your system and thereby your personal information if you have weak protection from your Antivirus. Having an effective and updated Antivirus is the mosty basic step to ward off hackers.

2. Password
Many bloggers wish they had made their password stronger and more complicated. Unfortunately, for many it become too late because their blog usually has already been hacked. Completely avoid using your name, celebrities or any particular word. Hackers aim at the victim's password most of the time to hack into their blogs. So as a preventive measure always make use of long, abstractive and alphanumeric passwords for your login credentials. This will help you enhance your online security a long way. And of course, other basic precautions include never sharing your password with anybody except of course those on your team or whom you trust personally.

3. Ethical Hacking
If you think that you have hack-proofed your blog then may be you would want to test it. Especially if your blog is authoritative then there is a high possibility for hackers to target your blog, in that case you should test your blog for vulnerability against hackers. You can do this by hiring ethical hackers who would be carrying out test attacks for you, they can thereon offer suggestions for further improvement for your security against hackers.

**sholing** · 12-01-2010 07:35 AM

On the Internet, hackers are becoming great threat to the websites and it a difficult task to contain them, these tips will certainly help to protect your site to an extent.

**joelchrist** · 12-01-2010 09:06 AM

Informative post about how to avoid hackers. Thanks for the share.

**jean may lee** · 12-01-2010 08:20 PM

This is the most proper way of maintaining your site. Providing security would assure you that you are away from any dangerous or malicious matter that could occupy or ruin your site. This is a wise decision to make.

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**lingoway** · 12-04-2010 05:30 AM

good advise. After reading your post i am eager to know that how to hide my IP. I will google it .

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