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• Make sure that you are keeping your personal computer patched. This will help your home network fight against different known vulnerabilities that can damage or weakened you security system. Like viruses, Trojans and worms, vulnerabilities are discovered as often. New vulnerabilities are usually the effect of coming up of new malicious files and software. Most of the time, these vulnerabilities can be found in operating systems, in different web browsers and third party software. If these vulnerabilities will be left unpatched, hackers can easily exploit your personal computer resulting in unauthorized control and access of information from your computer.

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