Hey there and welcome my name is Mr. Berry and today I want to be looking at
something a little bit different than we usually do normally we are going in and looking at ways
to better use our chromebooks and maybe even our cell phones and other things using the
apps that we find on the play store as well as the chrome web store but in this whole video
i'm going to be looking at security tips for keeping you safe on your windows 10 computer
so let's get on to the SelmaTeacher7 train you and I, come on !
Hey! Here I am in my Windows 10 desktop now the very first tip for keeping safe online or keeping your windows 10 secure
is to check for updates and many of us check the windows updates but we need to do more than just
check the windows updates we also have to check any of the programs that you use to really work
with so i'm looking at the browser and i'm going to show you first off how to check updates on
your windows computer and then i'm going to go into the browser and check updates there
now you can also check updates for if you're using adobe software or other types of important work
that you work with every day you make sure that you get those updated so that you stay safe so
let's go ahead and now we're going to click down at the very bottom here of the windows
10 desktop and i'm going to type in update and then now open up the windows update options
now within this window here this is where we can click on check for updates
and it will check for updates now it automatically does this for us but it's always good just to make
sure that everything is working properly here and as you can see even though it said it was updated
when i clicked on check for updates it actually found a new malicious software removal tool
which it's now installing next i want to check the updates on the browser and this is because really
many people are now using the browser more and more to do more than just
email or social media but they are actually using it to do their work so go ahead and click on the
customize control google chrome the three dots up here bring this down and then go to settings
from within the settings window click down here where it says about chrome
and it says google chrome is up to date now if it was not up to date
there would be a button here that you can click on and it will actually update it at that time
and our next tip is that you want to make sure that your firewall is enabled now if you
have windows 10 by default the firewall is always enabled but hey you want to check it just to make
sure right so all you got to do is go down to the bottom of your desktop here and then in that box
type in firewall and the firewall settings will come up go ahead and click it and it opens up here
now you have two different types of connections that you can be connected to you can have the
private network that would be like if you're at your house and the next one there is a public
and that one would be if you're connected at work or maybe at a restaurant or something basically
you want to make sure that on both of those settings it is turned on there as you see there
and the next tip i want to share with you is that you do want to use some type of anti-virus
or anti-malware software now by default you do have windows defender built into your windows so
that's awesome to have but i do recommend having other ones as well such as malwarebytes also
you can have super empty spyware and those two along with your windows defender can really keep
you safe there and i would like to mention too that if you are using malwarebytes or something
like anti-spyware you want to make sure that that software is always updated very frequently as well
and the next tip is about passwords now a lot of times we use maybe the
same password to get into our email or to our social media or into other
things or other accounts that we have that is a very bad idea you want to have a unique
password for your email for get logging into perhaps your windows account logging into your
google account going into your facebook and other places you want to have unique passwords
and you can use a software that can actually help you uh one good software is actually called
lastpass and this is not a video talking about lastpass or being paid by lastpass but it is a
good program that i use and some of my students do use it and what it does is basically whenever
you create a new account and you have to create a password that goes with that account lastpass can
help you create a very long complicated password that has both letters numbers and symbols there
as well as uppercase and lowercase letters and it will actually remember that password for you
so next time you go to that website or go to login to that specific
area it'll actually help you and put that password in for you so it's called lastpass
and the next tip that i want to share with you is about email now we don't want to open up
any suspicious email and sometimes you might receive an email that looks like it's from a
bank or it looks like it's from some place like yahoo or gmail or something like that
but it's not and you can really look at it and if you're suspicious about it don't open it
instead log into your google account the way that you normally do don't use that special email
to log into your account and if you're really concerned about it you can't contact the bank or
other institution that you believe is sending you that mail just to make sure
and you also want to be very leery of sharing information online
so when you go to um social media or when you go to other places and you're typing
in filling in information you want to be aware of where that information is going so if it's
something personal you don't want to share don't share it if you feel suspicious about it don't
do it your safety and your privacy always comes first so if you're suspicious about it
don't enter in that information and next if you're purchasing things online you want to use amazon or
another reputable store that actually will have some backing to it and if you're buying things
you usually want to prefer perhaps paypal and you don't want to give people out your credit card
number that's for sure so don't give up credit card numbers instead we're using something like
paypal to protect us and protect our purchases and the next tip there is when you're browsing on
the internet you do want to be very very leery of going in and just browsing you know for anything
you want to be aware of where you're going so that whenever you go to a website you should see a lock
a padlock up at the corner so i'm going to focus in on that right now and you notice there's a
padlock in front of my url address there that should be there if it is a site where you're
going to be working with such as putting in any information or anything like that it doesn't have
the padlock that means that that website is not using encryption software and you don't want to
use that and the next tip for windows 10 is you want to stay away from pirated software
i know it's all too easy to find pirated software anywhere on the internet but you don't want to
use it why because a lot of times that pirated software has something a little bit added to it
and that something could be a key logger where it actually watches the keys that you key in
it's looking for credit card numbers it's looking for bank information and stuff like that
and so don't use pirated software because it may contain a key logger or some other
type of malicious software that might compromise your system and allow a hacker
to get in and actually see what you're doing and you don't want that to happen
and the next tip that i want to talk about is using jump drives you want to use just your jump
drives and if you're using other people's jump drives that jump drive might have some malicious
software that might affect your windows 10 computer and that would be very very bad
so that's why you want to use your own and you can scan these
with the anti-virus software such as super anti-spyware or malwarebytes
so another thing that i really want to stress here is your protection and your security
so don't share personal information online unless you know the site that you're sharing it with
such as let's say it's your bank or something and you always want to check the url address
box at the top to make sure it is the actual bank that you're sharing the information
with and not a fishing website because there are so many fishing websites out there
which fish information they are fishing for your information but they look legit they look like
a bank or they may look like the regular site that you go to and that's why you always want to
check the url address box at the top there and make sure that you truly are getting into your
financial institution or into the other sites that you do your work or share your other information
hey so those are a few tips there for keeping you a little bit safer there
online and with your windows 10 computer now if you have other suggestions which i'm sure there
are many ideas there because i actually teach a class on this and i'm usually talking about this
for over an hour in my class but uh here this is just a really quick over view of the some of
the tips that i really stress there in class so if you have some other ideas please leave those
in the comment section there i really appreciate it and give it a thumbs up if you like the video
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