Many people are still afraid of the computer, whether to do online banking using your desktop or notebook. An aid, the Federal Office for Security in Information Technology (BSI) published for users, a computer with the Windows operating system use.

The manual is intended, the safety of users against the unauthorized access by third parties to increase. It is noteworthy, The BSI recommends that the freely available Web browser Google Chrome.

The Google Chrome has the great advantage, that he relies on the so-called sandbox technology. This has the advantage, that executable program code from other processes of the operating system is entirely closed off. In addition, the browser has an automatic update feature for patches or. new releases.

The recommendations of the BSI can be summarized in the following points:

1. The Windows computer with Windows should now 7 be equipped as an operating system.
2. Is proposed as an anti-virus program: Avira Free Antivirus oder avast! Free Antivirus.
3. There are regular backups of your hard drive(n) be created.
4. Hard drives of mobile computing devices should be encrypted, For example, with True Crypt.
5. On a computer should have at least two user account setup and daily work should be done with the user account without Admin rights.
6. WLAN is used for wireless data transmission, WPA2 encryption should be enabled.
7. Passwords for different applications should be managed with the program Keepass.
8. If a computer is disposed of, the hard disk will be destroyed or placed with a special progam to "FF".

The recommendations of the BSI can be found via this link.