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hey guys this is Austin and steam.you the video showing you some tips on how not to get hacked now in the last couple days there have been some major websites that have been hacked including last.fm key harmony and LinkedIn and while there's nothing you do about its a specific website getting hacked if it happens it happens but there are definitely some things you can do to make sure that your data is safe guarded and secure the first tip is very simple don't use the same password on multiple sites now I know we've all done this before however it's a very bad day as far as security goes so let's say you've had an account at last.fm for example okay so you use it and you have the same password on that as you have on multiple other sites well all it takes is something like this to happen where last.fm gets hacked all of a sudden your password is available most likely with your email address or all kinds of other information it's available for anyone so all they need to do is say oh okay you have a gmail account with this password let's go ahead and give it a shot they go to Gmail they punch in the password from last.fm and bam they have access to your email and once they have access to your email then of course they can reset passwords they can get at pretty much anything that they want to avoid this it's really easy just don't use the same password on multiple sites now to do this it's really simple if you get some crazy awesome brain just get a bunch of different passwords for different sites and just remember them if you're like me though you probably can't do that so in that case I recommend using LastPass one reason you should use LastPass is that will allow you to create a long random password so for example a lot of this might use a password similar to this now at first place it looks like a nice secure password however it really isn't for starters it's all lowercase now when you want to create a good secure password it should always contain a mixture of lowercase and uppercase letters as well as punctuation on top of that it's a dictionary word now anytime someone's trying to hack you it's very simple to go ahead and crack it if it's a standard word straight at the dictionary so instead you should use something like this which LastPass will create now of course there's no chance that you're going to be able to memorize this by yourself but since LastPass has it saved you really don't have to worry LastPass is also integrated into most major browsers so all you need to do is download the extension and it will automatically it fill in all the information that you need as far as your passwords go you can also opt for LastPass premium which is $12 a year and will allow you to access LastPass on pretty much any kind of mobile device out there another tip is to change your passwords regularly now but the site that you rarely use doesn't have any kind of major personal information it's probably not something that you need to worry about however if it's something important like banking or email it's a good idea to change your password once to twice a year another tip is to use antivirus software now if you're running a Mac or a Linux computer you really don't have to worry about this however if you are running Windows XP Windows Vista or Windows 7 an anti-virus is a good idea now I should know the antivirus is actually not necessary so a lot of people do not use antivirus and never have any issues in fact I've had antivirus on my computer for several years now without having any issues however it is a good backup what I recommend is to download Microsoft Security Essentials and this is what I run and I think it's absolutely excellent not only does it not really take up a lot of resources so it doesn't bog your computer down like a lot of other antivirus softwares but on top of that it stays update and does pretty much everything it needs to in the background of course there are some paid ones as well however I generally don't recommend these just because well they might be slightly better sometimes than security essentials that of course they cost and they're almost always going to take up a lot more resources and slow your computer down another very easy thing you can do to keep yourself a little bit more secure is to keep everything up to date now there's a lot of different things that are involved in getting yourself on the internet so at the base level you have your operating system so this could be Windows 7 it could be Mac OS 10 line it doesn't really matter there are always new updates to help with security and bugs and all that kind of stuff it's very simple to keep your computer up-to-date now highly recommend that if you haven't updated in a while just double check and see if there are any new updates available and install them to make sure that you're as secure as possible you should also keep your browser up-to-date so if you use a newer browser such as Google Chrome you really don't have to worry about this as it will automatically keep you up to date however if you have an older browser such as Internet Explorer it's a great idea to use the update functionality from time to time to make sure that it is in fact fully up to date you should also keep your plugins up-to-date so these range from everything from flash which is most likely what you're using to watch this YouTube video right now to QuickTime to Silverlight to Java now generally these are going to be spread all over your computer with different options and control panels however the best way to check to see if they're all up-to-date is to use the Mozilla plugin checker this website is made by Mozilla the makers of Firefox however it does work in any browser what it will do is scan your computer for all the different plugins you have installed and see if any of them do need to be updated if so a simple link will appear here we can download the latest update and get that all taken care of lastly but definitely not least it comes down to common sense so of course you really need to be careful about downloading shady programs there's all kinds of spyware and adware that is not a virus technically but it's something that you may accidentally install while you're installing something so typically free software will have toolbars or might even have stuff that will put ads on your computer all that kind of stuff and this is not anything that antivirus will take care of as you're the one saying ok ok ok on the million check boxes so anytime you install something it looks a little shady just be sure to read carefully if there's gonna be any kind of toolbars or anything like that you should also be careful with torrents and illegal downloads now if you want it towards something by all means go ahead it's none of my business but you should be at least a little bit wary of these so right through a virus scan or something before opening it up is you never know what could be lurking inside so you guys have it a few tips on how to keep yourself more safe and secure online and while there's no foolproof way of doing this by taking a few simple precautions such as not using the same password on websites installing some antivirus and being wary of what you download it can make a big difference if you enjoyed this video definitely be sure to leave it a thumbs up if you're interested in more videos like this be sure to subscribe