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Club Tropica is committed to providing detailed safety information to help keep you and your PC safe. This page contains links to pages full of tips and advice that will help you to protect yourself and your computer whilst online.
Computer Protection
When using any your computer to access any site online, including Club Tropica, it is important that you take certain precautions. If you don't then you put your PC and any personal information you might want to store/send under potential threat. This page contains all the basic information you need to keep your computer and information safe while using the internet.
Install a Firewall
A firewall alone isn't enough to guarantee PC security but, it is the first line of defence. A firewall can protect you from a number of online threats such as; spyware, spam, viruses and worms and malicious traffic (information being unwillingly sent from your PC if a malicious program is installed accidentally). The internet is a public network and any computer connected to the internet can find and connect to any other connected computer. A firewall is a barrier between your PC and the public network. Think of a firewall as an overactive bouncer who stops everyone that isn't on the guest list from accessing Your PC.
- Desktop Firewall - A desktop firewall is one that is installed into the PC, it monitors and when instructed blocks internet traffic; these are also sometimes called software firewalls.
The Windows Firewall (part of Microsoft Windows, XP Service Pack 2 and Windows Vista) is an excellent basic firewall, it will protect your PC from most threats and it's free as it comes built into your operating system. Follow these simple steps to ensure your desktop firewall is operational:
- Windows Vista - Open the Security Centre in the Control Panel. A green light and the word 'on' should appear next to firewall.
- Windows XP Service Pack 2 - Open the Control Panel, double-click on Security Centre. A green light and the word 'on' should appear next to firewall.
You can replace the built in firewall with a more sophisticated commercial firewall that will pick up additional threats and protect your PC further.
- Hardware Firewall - These are often built into broadband and internet routers and can be very useful if several computers all share the same internet connection as a hardware firewall will protect them all. Most routers are available with a built in hardware firewall.
Install Anti-Virus Software
Without anti-virus software your computer is vulnerable to computer viruses, including; infected email attachments, spyware, viruses and worms. If your PC is infected with a virus you could loose all the information stored on it, find it slow and unstable or worse still be the victim of a malicious attack and find your personal information stolen and used for fraud or identity theft.
Everyone using the internet should ensure they have anti-virus software installed on their PC, configured correctly it will scan all incoming emails for attached viruses, monitor files as they are created or opened to ensure they are not infected and perform regular scans to ensure your PC remains virus free.
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Update Windows Regularly
Any software that is produced can have flaws and hackers will try to exploit these flaws, as the software developers discover flaws in their software they will offer patches and updates to users that will increase the software's security. It is important to check for software updates regularly and install them as necessary to keep your PC as safe as possible. Updating your operating system will help to protect against some viruses, known hacker ticks and also fix any software bugs.
Updates must be combined with anti- virus, anti-spyware (see below) and firewall software to be effective.
To update your Windows, go to the Windows Update Site and follow the simple instructions.
Stop Spyware
Spyware is in many ways like a virus, it's an unwanted program that runs on your PC and is often installed along other programs such as peer to peer file sharing applications. There are different types of spyware; some is fairly harmless and designed specifically to get you visit commercial websites, typically gambling and porn related but, the more sinister versions can scan your hard disk for personal information like credit card details, shut down your anti-virus and firewall, block access to certain websites, log the keys you type searching for passwords and credit card numbers or, take screen shots of the sites you visit to capture personal information.
You might already have some form of spyware installed on your PC and not even know about it, the very worst kinds are often undetectable to most anti-virus software. You can take steps to avoid downloading spyware; buy reputable software, avoid peer to peer sharing programs, read the small print in the licence of any software you download from the internet and when you install a program onto your PC, don't just tick all the boxes, read them and make sure you are not giving the provider permission to install spyware onto your PC.
You should also install anti-spyware software and scan your PC regularly.
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Browse The Internet Safely
When using the internet it is important to do so wisely, some sites are filled with spyware, viruses and Phishing software designed to retrieve your personal or financial information.
- Internet Explorer - This browser has inbuilt features designed to restrict the damage that internet sites can do, it groups websites into one of four zones: trusted, restricted and local intranet and internet. To increase your browser security or add a websites to a different category, go to the 'Tools' menu and select 'Internet Options', then click the 'Security' tab.
- Mozilla Firefox - To change security settings select 'Tools' then 'Options' on the menu bar. You can also edit your privacy policy, including how you treat cookies, on the 'Privacy' tab.
If you follow the six steps above then your PC should be safe from most attacks but, it is important to remain vigil, anti-virus, firewalls, etc... only work if you turn them on and use them; i.e. scanning your PC regularly and if you download and install a malicious program manually it then they might not pick it up until it's too late so, don't trust anything unless you are 100% sure it's safe!
Use Prevx 3.0 free (see terms) to check if your PC is infected by malicious software such as rootkits, trojans, viruses, worms, bots, spyware and adware.
Millions of people use Prevx 3.0 in this way for added security. They like the ultra-fast scans and the fact that Prevx 3.0 does not slow their PC in any way. Should Prevx 3.0 detect infections missed by your existing security product(s) you can always upgrade to add malware removal and protection at any time or report the infection to your existing security vendor. It's a great way to boost your PC security free of charge. Many Prevx 3.0 users run the fast scan to check their PCs several times a day.
With the Prevx 3.0 Malware Removal feature activated you can quickly and easily remove infections from your PC and restore it to normal use. The Malware removal feature will take care of trojans, viruses, worms, bots, spyware, adware and even rootkits including those that defeat most antivirus and Internet Security suites.
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System Requirements
Prevx 3.0 has an extremely light footprint, meaning it has minimal impact on your system performance, and will run effectively even on very low specification PCs.
However, for best performance we would recommend at least the following:
- 10mb of free harddisk space
- 32mb of RAM
- Pentium II processor or higher
- Fully compatible with all Windows operating systems (98, XP, VISTA, 2000, 2003, 2008 and even Windows 7 - 32/64bit)
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