Title - Are Our Home and Private Computers Ever Safe from External Threats?
Hypothesis - Computers are never safe from external threats
Introduction
The use of computers these days has become a necessity for work purposes and for home private use, for example; social networking for communication with friends, or to use as storage device for saving work documents , pictures and videos etc.
With the great overload of people using computers and the types of information stored on them, their will always be a need for safety software to be employed. As their will be people out there who miss-use and abuse this technology and try ‘hack’ into ones computer and steal this information, or pass on computer viruses and spyware. For example, when someone has a personal email address and is receiving emails from sites they use for updates, the possibility that they are malicious emails is unknown. When opened upon could upload a virus to the computer, and the user wouldn’t have the choice of stopping it.
With the employment of security software these types of attacks can possibly be prevented and protect users. As technology progresses, the software must be updated as new viruses and spyware are being created by people, which once again leave a user open for attack and vulnerable. Therefore the aims of this essay are to provide you with an argument of whether the software available for computers is effective and consistent enough to keep a user protected at all times through the use of a hypothesis and research (books, articles, newspapers, online websites, questionnaires and qualitative and quantitative research methods).
