Protecting Your Social Networking Accounts

Facebook, twitter, Google plus have become a part and parcel of our lives today. We share photos, news about their life, and other personal information. But many of us often do not that apart from our friends and relatives there are others who have access to our photos and information. Spams, Bots, virus writers, identity thieves and other cyber criminals are targeting the social networking sites to steal personal data of the users.

That is why it has become very necessary to maintain privacy on social networks. One of the most effective way is by installing any of the best malware removal software available. These programs have social network protection feature that scans, analyses and alerts the user of any e-threats in their account.

Apart from installing an antivirus software, the users also needs to take some steps to ensure privacy of their accounts. Most of the social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn have privacy settings that can help in controlling who sees the posts and also manage the account effectively. Each day the cyber criminals are becoming very advanced and so the passwords should be long, strong unique. Clicking on any certain links sent by friends and relatives can often lead cyber criminals take control of the account.

Installing any paid or free antivirus for windows as well as a little initiative from the users end will keep our social networking accounts safe from cyber criminals.