 build a Webpage (also,  chat rooms

Website)  computer
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 check your email  email
 download music files  Internet connection
 go on the Internet / go online  ISP (Internet Service
 install software Provider)
 meet people online  laptop computer
 scan for viruses  the Internet
 send email  URL (Webpage address)
 start up / shut down your  Web browser
computer  Webpage
 surf the Internet

Everytime you are going to connect to the internet, you must protect your PC. If you don’t, it is like leaving your door
wide open for robbers.
You’ve probably heard everything such like computer virus, hacker, firewall, spyware and a lot more. Perhaps, you
think that the anti-virus application that came along with the computer is adequate to keep you safe, right? Wrong ….
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a firewall.
This is your first line of protection, causing it highly troublesome for some hacker or malicious software to get through.
However, nothing is perfectly unbreakable, but anti-virus application shall always watch for anything suspicious that
manages to disturb your computer and having an anti-virus application is a must.
But there are things that can get into your machine in the most unusually ways.
It can be unknowingly added by you when you tried to download music, screensavers or pc games onto your
machine. It can even be downloaded by someone you know and trust, like a friend, employer, etc.
This malicious software is called spyware and its threatening, it can break out your privacy which allows people or
computer programs to discover what you’re doing, what sites you are viewing and even log your keystrokes so that
they can find out the characters you type in, such as passwords and credit card details.
The most fundamental thing to protect your system against spyware is to install a powerful software that catch and
removes it.
Well, you have your firewall and your anti-virus software in place. Probably, you think that an anti-spyware application
is only money down the drain. Well, unfortunately not, this software would fill up the gaps leftover by your other
security application, and even if it won’t get your desktop computer entirely impenetrable, it will be like closing all your
doors and windows and having a warning signal system equipped before you’re leaving your computer, but some
highly skilled hacker can still break in if they really wanted to.
Many people are currently applying their computers for a wide range of personal and business applications.
Getting prevention measures to assure your internet protection have to be as natural as closing down the door behind
you when you are leaving out, and there are affordable and easy to use applications out there to help you doing that.

a) Could you tell us which the most important tips are in order to protect your PC?
b) Write a name for the text and then, make a summary of the most important things in the text.
c) Why do we have to be careful with our PC protection, applications, programmes, screensavers....
d) If you were a person who has that problem, what would you do? And, if you need to give an advice?
 SOLUTION

a) Could you tell us which the most important tips are in order to protect your PC?
The most fundamental thing to protect your system against spyware is to install a powerful software
that catch and removes it.

b) Write a name for the text and then, make a summary of the most important things in the text.
Protects the information stored in the computer

c) Why do we have to be careful with our PC protection, applications, programmes, screensavers....

Because if you don’t, it is like leaving your door wide open for robbers, and can appear computer
viruses, hackers, firewall, spyware and much more, which can steal your credit card information,
passwords and others.

d) If you were a person who has that problem, what would you do? And, if you need to give an advice?
I would go to a systems engineer to help me install what is necessary to protect my computer