Daily Security Tip: Lock Down the computer
Aug 6th, 2008 by admin
Why not locking down the computer?! We always try to protect ourselves from the hackers on the Internet. Most of us don’t really have that bad enemies. Most of the hacking is done by exploiting the human behavior and social psichology: It is much simple and less time-consuming to ask a username to run a certain software instead of trying to find code-error, especially on closed sourcecode software like Windows.
I always tought that Microsoft had a greate ideea of not making the sourcecode of any version of Windows opensource. Like any software it has errors but imagine if anyone could search letter by letter the code… The probability for someone to find an error that can be exploited is huge, and in this case everyone that runs Windows OS(almost every individual in the world) would suffer from hacking abuse.
To lock down your computer you can press: Windows Key + L.
One more thing you can do is setting a password for your screensaver: Control Panel -> Display Settings -> Screen Saver -> Check “On resume, password protect” -> Settings (and set the password here)
One more way to open the Display Settings Window is to click right on the Windows Desktop and then from the menu click Properties.