Internet is one of the most powerful tools that have been created by mankind today.
It has brought a significant change in our life.
Internet has given us endless amounts of information and opportunities.
It has given us few important communication tools such as email, chat etc.
that helps in connecting people faster than ever before.
Social networking sites such as Friendster, Facebook, orkut etc.
allows people to easily share their thoughts, ideas, emotions and feelings with their loved ones.
Through Internet, you can also easily acquire items from all over the world with just one click.
It has also introduced a concept of online banking where you can easily do banking transactions send & receive cash, pay bills, etc.
from your home.
These days' people usually do all their work shopping, paying bills, business deals etc.
by just entering their personal information from home through Internet.
Internet has made our lives simpler and convenient than ever before.
There are certain drawbacks of the Internet as well and hacking is one of them.
Internet security has become one of the main concerns for the people these days as they usually share their all personal information such as banking information, address etc, over the internet.
Internet security basically means the protection of your computer's Internet account and files from an unknown user.
There are a lot of intelligent hackers these days, which can easily hack anyone's important information through Internet within a few seconds.
Apart from these computer hackers, there are also few other threats such as viruses, spywares and malwares etc.
that can easily collect your personal information and can even destroy your computer within a few seconds.
In order to protect your important information and fight against these cyber criminals, certain good internet security programs are available in the market which not only save your personal information when you are online but also prevents them from stolen by the hackers.
These Internet security programs are also known as Anti-virus software, which protects and fights your computer from viruses, spywares and malwares.
The antivirus software's such as MacAfee, trend micro, Norton etc.
creates a protective shield, which protects the user's data from certain bugs, viruses, spywares etc.
Once install in the system, they immediately tries to locate the viruses, spywares etc, kill them and notifies the user about the same.
The antivirus software's keep on updating them through the Internet.
These protection software's can be easily purchased from online or a local computer store.
There are also certain cyber protection cells that have been established to control cyber crime and protect the normal users, companies and firms' etc.
from professional hackers.
They keep on maintaining a record of all the transactions that are going on daily basis over the Internet.
Big companies, firms etc.
also take the help of these cells for the protection of their important data on the Internet.
Apart from all these, it is also a responsibility of a user to not to visit any unprotected site, should download the latest security updates, run scans and never share their online banking, email passwords etc.
with anyone.