How to prevent them?

                                                                                                          

1.Turn on your spam blocker. Most Internet providers provide a spam blocking feature to prevent unwanted messages, such as fraudulent emails and phising emails, from getting to your inbox.


2.Make sure you have adequate anti-virus software for your computer, such as McAfee, Norton Anti-Virus, Stopzilla or other similar programs. You also need to make sure you regularly update your anti-virus software and that you do a once-a-week scan to locate and eliminate any malware, spyware, viruses and other problems. If you don't want to purchase security software, then there are programs, such as AVG, that offer free versions.


 3.Use your computer's firewall protection feature, which is a digitally created barrier that prevents hackers from getting into your computer system. Always keep it turned on.


4.Encrypt important data you don't want compromised. Utilize encryption software, which "garbles" your data to make it unintelligible to anyone who tries to hack into your computer system.






5.Be wary of providing personal information via a website you know nothing about, especially those that ask for your name, mailing address, bank account number or social security number.


6.Make sure that you do online shopping on a secure website, like those with a url that starts with "https" . If you don't see these anywhere on the site, you run the risk of submitting credit card information and other personal information to a site that may be a fraud.







Bibliography
Federal Bureau Investgation. ( n.d.). How to Protect Your Computer.Retrieved from: http://www.fbi.gov/scams-safety/computer_protect.





Article: "Prevention of computer crime amidst international anarchy''.
 Author: Brian C. Lewis                                       

  

Introduction

   This note talks brieflly about the rise of the cyber o computer crime. Moreover explain the possible shortcomings and solutions to prevent the computer crime and the better chance to end the computer crime.

Summary
   Several of the solutions is promote to create representatives in each country, who are familiar with the legal systems to ensure adequate manner to penalize abuses and crimes occasioned by telecomunications and cyber criminals. A method of prevention could be animate to Internet users to take adequate precautions to limit or prevent completely the damage related with the computer crime. Another method would be to regulate the software manufacturers. Directly regulate the technology used by manufacturers and softeware companies or make them responsible for damages allowed by their products on the market. Strengthen existing criminal legislation privately sponsored (hack) in competitions. The objetive of these competitions wii be: discover the weaknesses in the products and practices before entering the market. And provide a positive exit for the skills of the hacker and therefore reduce or prevent the activity of the perjudical piracy.

Bibliography

Lewis, B. C. (2004, Summer). Prevention of computer crime amidst international anarchy. American Criminal Law Review, 41(3), 1353+. Retrieved from http://ic.galegroup.com:80/ic/ovic/AcademicJournalsDetailsPage/AcademicJournalsDetailsWindow?displayGroupName=Journals&disableHighlighting=true&prodId=OVIC&action=2&catId=&documentId=GALE%7CA125489479&userGroupName=uprcarolina&jsid=c7e0d5b194f6f3a6a4ed698c31b3f976