#2 ...you need to make sure your machine is clean as possible. Malware can be installed that makes your PC a 'zombie' that participates in attacks providing volume and act as an alternate launch site. Routinely running anti-virus/anti-malware programs helps. Personally, when I log off the net, as habit I run CCleaner available free from cnet (read instructions), to purge the cache files so nothing is lingering around to install itself upon some trivial processing action thereafter. Of course that means I have to reenter my nom de plume every time I come back and repost at the Burg. A little inconvenient, but worth the security. Security is a trade between effectiveness and accessibility.
Some day its going to get bad enough to require a 'push back' with a direct attack upon those zombie machines which means a lot people will wake up with dead box rather than a computer. |