Secure against what?
I highly welcome the National Crime Prevention Council's (NCPC) efforts to put focus on Identity Theft in their TV ad. If you have not yet seen this public service ad I suggest that you download it here (low quality version for faster download) and watch the movie.
Introduction
The amount of viruses and worms that are floating around the Internet is constantly increasing. The number of infected computers likewise increase every day, every minute, yes, every second.
We focus on both technical and human parts of security, and have tried to make it a continious tutorial on security. If you find any part of the site confusing, or if you have any suggestions, please let us know
The main goal for this website is to inform you about some of the malicious items you will encounter while using the Internet, and hopefully provide you with the means necessary to identify and to stop it from doing any harm against you.
Every day too many get infected with computer viruses or loose personal details due to fraud. By reading this site, you hopefully won't be one of them and have already taken the very important first step to avoid it; Research.
Some of the symptoms for an infected computer is that it is running slower and slower. Also many notice extra toolbars appearing in the browser Internet Explorer and that the home page turn into something un-expected. You might also notice that non-exisitant domains redirect to unexpected websites.
I have tried to build up the rest of the site as a step-by-step guide on securing a system. I have taken Microsoft Windows as a basis, because that is the system that statistically is most targetted. If you feel offended by this, please take notice that I personally use GNU/Linux as my primary system and have a great deal of respect for Mac OS X. I just have to limit the scope of the website somewhere, and this time the boundary became Microsoft Windows.