Anti Spyware For Internet Marketers


by Peter Lim - Date: 2007-01-26 - Word Count: 554 Share This!

One of the main reasons many people get involved in internet marketing is the fact that they believe internet marketing can give them the freedom to live a lifestyle that is more leisurely than a 9 to 5 job.

Of course, there's the other aspect of monetary reward, and there have been mesmerising tales of those big-time gurus' who have raked in millions of dollars through their mega launches of Marketing Systems and Traffic systems within a day. Hence, we see more and more people reaching out to become internet marketers with the twin objectives of financial freedom and personal freedom.

I was surprised that my friends who were internet marketers making a good living from off their online activities reported that they find they have to spend more time on their computers upgrading themselves and their knowledge to keep pace with the fast developing online marketplace. For example, while the use of video was relatively untouched some 3 years back, today we see a phlethora of sites offerring facilities to show off your personal videos, both for entertainment, for education and for advertising or marketing purposes.

Prodding them a bit further, I was even more surprised that almost none of them have had undergone a substantial upgrading of their computer facilities although their business which had increased manifold.

More shockingly, I discovered there was an abject neglect of the security of their computers - both their computer systems and hardware itself and its assets - the files they created, the infoproducts they made and their mailing lists they have painstainkingly built up through the years.

In one case, one internet marketer has had her clientele wiped off simply because she did not carry any backups of their sites which were based on scripts that run on a database, and when there was a DDOS attack on the server storing her scripts, all the mailing lists were destroyed and lost forever!

In the hustle and bustle of the working day, it is time for you, if you are an internet marketer to pause and consider when the last time you did an audit of your own needs was - the need for an upgraded secure computer system that can provide protection against the ever increasing threat of spyware, virus, malware, malicious keyloggers, trojans and all its many variants.

On the very basic front, it is imperative to install a powerful anti spyware software that can do daily updates of the spyware definitions. Though there are free versions, you need to seriously consider whether it is better for you to upgrade to the paid versions or to change to an entirely better anti spyware software. Next, an anti virus program with a firewall must be installed to provide real time protection against viral attack. And finally, devise a back-up system of your very important files such as your mailing list, customer list, your joint venture partners and your "products" on the design table.

There are a lot of things we can do to counter economic sabotage by others, as there is a physical presence and physical entities that we can check and monitor, but where online marketing is concerned, viruses sneak in unawares and can destroy a whole lifetime of your work in a split second, if you do not care about your own computer security.

So check your computer system today and ensure you are protected.


Related Tags: malware, computer security, anti spyware, identify spyware, remove spyware, recover data files

Peter Lim is a Certified Financial Planner. If you need a mentor to help you become a successful trader, or to discover powerful professional trading secrets to help you create a 5 figure income trading forex in the comfort of your home, visit the author's blog at http://1forex-trading.blogspot.com

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