A common tip for home based businesses is to start up a blog. this is a good piece of advice, however, bolgs can be hacked into and you can end up with all sorts of things to upset your computer, like Trojan horses and viruses. Unfortunately one of the more popular sites to post blogs is WordPress and WordPress is an open source code, which means that anybody can have access to it.
This can be a major distraction for you and the way to protect against this is to always update to the latest version. so when the update to the latest version is offered to you... take it. It will certainly help you not to get hacked.
Another problem you may encounter is with your payment system. If you are using PayPal, that too can go astray. I have heard of cases where a hacker can get into your PayPal account and purchase items for a fraction of what you are trying to sell it to them for. Imagine the frustration of making a sale, only to see the amount being credited to your account is a pittance. while this problem is at the PayPal end it is really frustrating.
There is a product called DLGuard which can help prevent this problem, whereby you can catch the problem before you actually sned the product. DLGuard will actually prevent the purchaser from getting to the download page if the incorrect amount has been entered.
Simple things like changing your password often and treating link emails very cautiously are other measures you can take to safeguard your systems and more importantly,not divert your attention from your goals and objectives by having to spend too much time on other issues.
While the internet can be a dangerous beast, there is also plenty of reward of you can manage to maintain your attention on what you do best.
Michael_Dimattina
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