Internet Vocab News Story

Internet Vocab News Story

  • Submitted By: akki07
  • Date Submitted: 09/03/2011 6:57 PM
  • Category: Technology
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In the modern world of computers, the percentage of Cybercrime is increasing. Many Cybercrimes are happening. People’s computers are getting hacked. I just remembered that few days ago my friend’s computer got hacked by a group of hackers, and also a virus was sent. He had the antivirus software installed on his computer for protection, but that did not help. He reported the problem to his Internet Service Provider(ISP), but they said that we cannot do anything about it, all you can do is to give the computer for repair, and the technician’s can take out the virus, he means that they can remove the virus.
He went online on the internet and he even read blog’s about how to erase the virus, and he searched & browsed what to do if your computer is hacked, but could not found anything. He thought that he knew where he got the virus from. He wanted to download something, so he clicked on download, it said downloading, and suddenly another link opened in a different web browser, and then after two-three minutes, his computer shut down and then when he turned it on later, all of his data was gone. He right clicked on the computer screen and click refresh few times, but he did not get anything back or any of the icons. There was nothing left, every Word file, PowerPoint file, or other documents stored in his computer were gone. He made one mistake that he didn’t store those files somewhere else, for example, on a flash drive, on an external hard drive, or online storage system.
For some important files he used encryption, which means that he made a special code for one of his file, so it means that only he can open it, so the hackers would not be able to open that files which is good for him. It is mostly used for protecting information which is really important. You can also use security patches, which can fix problems. He had a Wi-Fi connection, so other people uses his Wi-Fi, maybe other people in his connection might...

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