Online Safety Alert-Future Tech Computer Services-Computer Repairs-Custom Computer Systems-Orillia Ontario-Home Page

This is a special safety alert from Future Tech Computer Services:

In the past several weeks we have been swamped with infected computers. The severity of infections has escalated to the point of severe consequences for our clients. A complete loss of data for one of our clients was devastating. We often read or hear about these kinds of threats but when it happens to you, you feel violated just as if your home had been invaded and robbed by some terrible criminals.

We have always tried to educate our clients how to protect themselves. During this time of year when we are so busy with last minute computers to build, we have not had the time to update our "tips" pages. However, we feel this special page is warranted and hopefully will help some of you.

Many people use free antivirus/antispyware programs. Most of them are quite good. However, many do not prevent infections as they happen, in real time. In this day and age everyone seems to want to get a free ride. But it can cost you in the long run. We want to download free music and films and pirated software. Why pay $ 600 for MS Office when you can get it for $ 50? We are not condoning any of these practices. However going to any site that seems too good to be true is probably infected and will infect you within minutes. Many of you do not know about the emerging threats - the " click-by" Trojans, infected logon scripts that can hijack a legitimate sites login procedure - there are too many bad things to tell you about.

You must become knowledgeable in order to protect yourself and your data.

First and foremost - get some information about what is going on and how to protect yourself. Everyone that comes here has had no clue about how they got infected, how vulnerable their browser settings were, how not being up to date with operating system, browser and plug-in updates has left them vulnerable. Their kids turn off firewalls so they can play online games instead of researching how to set up the firewall to play games safely.

We feel the best way we can help is to direct you to a site that is dedicated to helping you learn how to protect yourself. The "Get Safe Online" site is doing a fantastic job of presenting the threats out now and what you can do to help yourself. This website is easy to read, well thought out and planned and has very helpful links to more pages with more information. We know you will find the site as helpful as we have and encourage you all to take the time to protect yourself before you get caught and trapped by some of these online pirates.