MOBILE PHONES AND ECOMMERCE

PHONES SECURITY

While this won’t necessarily protect your phone against theft, it will protect what’s on it. For example, if someone tries to remotely log in to your Google account from another device, you’ll know via the 2-step message on your phone. And then you can take the appropriate action and change your password.

In 2017, the number of new mobile malware variants increased by 54%. With 5G on the rise, experts anticipate an even higher number of risks in 2020. This makes it more crucial than ever to take the necessary steps to protect your personal device from mobile threats.

Mobile websites can download malware onto our mobile devices without our permission or awareness. Phishing is a typical way attackers get us to click on links to sites containing mobile threats. For example, a hacker might set up a website that looks legitimate (e.g. like our banking site) to capture our login credentials. What can we do about web-based mobile threats? Security software on our phones can help detect malicious websites and phishing attempts. It also pays to be extra careful and attentive. For example, the IRS will never send an email requesting our tax data. (They only use the US Postal Service.) An email pointing to an IRS website is almost guaranteed to be a scam.

COMPUTER VIRUS

A more damaging virus can wreak havoc on an extremely large computer system within a matter of minutes or hours, causing it to crash and thereby destroy valuable data. A virus may simply cause a harmless joke or cryptic message to appear on a computer user’s video monitor each time he turns on his computer. A virus is usually designed to execute when it is loaded into a computer’s memory. The infection can then transfer itself to files and code on other computers through magnetic disks or other memory-storage devices, computer networks, or online systems. Upon execution, the virus instructs its host program to copy the viral code into, or “infect,” any number of other programs and files stored in the computer. In most cases, the corrupted programs continue to perform their intended functions but surreptitiously execute the virus’s instructions as well. The replicating viruses often multiply until they destroy data or render other program codes meaningless. A virus consists of a set of instructions that attaches itself to other computer programs, usually in the computer’s operating system, and becomes part of them.

FREE OFFERS

The pandemic has created hard times for families,as a result, people are looking for hand outs,give aways, which has a way of saving the family from pressing expenses.Research has shown that some companies are giving out gift items ranging from electronics,to gift cards.We all appreciate free gifts and so this article is focusing on free items that can be given.The  gifts are to be used and a feedback given so that concerned organisation may mass produced these products as gifts 

The following items can be given

1.electronics

2.Gift card

Now talking about electronics,it can be laptop,printer,scanner or any of it likes.

ABUSE OF  FREE ITEMS

Some can take undue advantage of gifts,gather as much as possible then hoard them to  detriment of others.This should not be encouraged,the gifts are like blessing and must be allowed to go round

REACH OUT TO MOBILE DEVICE USERS

Gone are the days that  people browse only on computers, the World has seriously advanced to the extent that mobile phones can be used to browse the net.

With this in mind your websites should be optimized for mobile viewing, if not, you are losing a huge chunk of potential customers.

More people browse the internet on their smart phones than on their computers.

So you are walking along in the mall and you see these little rectangular devices protruding from people's hands almost everywhere you look. You have seen this yourself almost everywhere you go.

People are more connected than they have ever been.  This is the new evolution in communication and information gathering.

When someone wants to know where a restaurant is, they don't go looking for a phone booth to find a phone book. (Are there still phone booths out there?) They whip out their smart phone or tablet, do a search and bring up the restaurants website.

If your website is not optimized for mobile viewing you are losing out on a huge segment of people that are searching for you.

The good news is that optimizing your site for mobile viewing is easy to do. In fact you can use a tool to do the bulk of the heavy lifting. All you have to do is do some tweaking.

You don't have to worry that people on regular computers will get a weird looking site. All of the device handling happens automatically. Smart devices get the mobile version of your site and regular computers get the normal version of your site. This gives you the best of both worlds!

HOW TO KNOW WHEN YOUR HARD DISK IS ABOUT TO CRASH

The drive is the store house of programs that runs the computer.

However, there are times, this device fails you when you least expect .The worst of all is the imminent loss of data.

                            

As in vehicles, a good and careful user can spot the signs of a troubled hard drive and take a proactive actions.

Below are signs or symptoms to look out for when your hard drive is about to pack up or give up the ghost

     (i.)            Frequent but irregular crashes, especially while booting up Windows®

    (ii.)            Frequent and cryptic error messages while performing typical activities like moving files

  (iii.)            Folder and file names that have been scrambled and changed

  (iv.)            Disappearing files and folders

   (v.)            Really long wait times to access folders and files

  (vi.)            Hard disk is silent for a long period after you request data by opening a file or folder

(vii.)            Garbled output from open files or printing

(viii.)            Hard drive grinds away constantly because of noisy bearings

Sound can be an excellent indicator of disk trouble! If you previously didn’t hear a peep from your hard drive, but now you d. If it seems much louder than usual or makes occasional clicks or grinding sounds, check it ASAP and get ready to backup your data and replace the drive.

If your drive is making regular clicking or grinding sounds, chances are you have a mechanical failure within the drive. Turn off your computer as soon as possible as continued use may damage the platters (data storage area) and make your data unrecoverable. The longer the drive is powered on, the more damage you may be doing to your data. You should then make a note of what happened and contact a computer technician immediately.

COMPUTER ILLEGAL OPERATIONS

Today’s article may be serialiszed,so it is advisable  there be constant follow up on the part of readers and Users of information.
People Users are guilty of performing illegal operations in their computer; these constitute an abuse and have the long term effects on affecting your personal computers
These illegal and can be caused by various factors. The following are some of the more commonly known reasons performing illegal operations.

1.  Third-party programs causing memory conflicts or other conflicts with the program or programs attempting to be run.
2. Data not being read properly from source. Running a program or game with a dirty CD can cause the CD to be read improperly causing Illegal Operations. Floppy diskettes, which may contain errors can cause illegal operations.
3. Installing a program or game on a hard drive that has errors or is highly fragmented.
4. Corrupt files.
5. Memory managers.
6. Bad, incorrect or not the latest video drivers.
7. Computer Virus.
8. Added hardware
9. Error in program coding
10. Corruption or problem within Windows.
11. Bad Memory, invalid bits or physically bad memory.

The solutions to the above will come in my next  article