20 July 2008

Can hackers hack my computer?

The only answer to this question is, yes. No matter how secure is your system, Hackers can hack your computer. You should ask yourself, do hackers want to hack my computer?

In this post, I am going to explain about what is a security test.
The tool that I am going to introduce is PC Security Test

A Security test is performing a test on your computer. The purpose of this test is to know what hackers can do to your system. It means, after we have built a strong wall, we are now trying to break the wall like what the enemy does and see the results. How strong is the wall? What method can hackers use to break in to your system?

This tool is a very user friendly and GUI tool, anyone who can understand English should be able to use this tool without any problem. This tool is for computer literates who wish to have a basic security test on their computer.This tool is made for commercial use, not for enterprise or corporate network. This tool will perform a security test so that home users will be aware.

Let's look at a screen shot of the tool.
Now to perform a security test. Click on any test that you want to perform, I would recommend you to start with a standard test first before you perform other tests. Now as I have said earlier, this tool is very user friendly, easy to use and suitable for home users; So I am not going to make screen shot but I will briefly explain about this software.

There is 3 steps that you need to practice when you are using this software:
1)READ
2)Click
3)R-E-A-D!

This software will hack your computer like what a hacker will do to your computer. This software will not harm your computer; For example, in 'standard test', this software will copy a virus to your computer and run it. After all test have been done, the virus will be removed and the software will show you the results of the test. If this software can successfully get information, bypass your anti-virus, or control your hardware that you use; It means your computer is vulnerable for hackers to exploit your system.

After performing the tests, to increase your knowledge on computer security, you may try to answer the quiz. The quiz will ask you questions to test your knowledge on computer security and provide the explanation. READ every single word and you will definitely learn something from this software.

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