With special thanks to Paul Jacobson at jciconsult.com

• Do private business only on your own computer or under supervised conditions
• Don't surf anywhere you would be ashamed of
• Always clear caches before leaving online banking.
• Unsolicited Emails
  
  • NEVER provide information to requests received via EMAIL
  • Be careful about responding to unsolicited emails.
  • NEVER install patches or programs received from unsolicited emails
  • If you really want to visit a link in an email, PASTE THE LINK in your browser.  DO NOT
    CLICK ON STRANGE LINKS.
  • Look at the underlying code of emails (View source) if you are NOT VERY VERY SURE
• If you don't have up to date anti-virus you will be very sorry. 
• Free software to speed up your computers is ALWAYS BAD
• Unsolicited virus/spyware scans from websites are ALWAYS BAD
• BACK UP YOUR DATA
  
  • if you don't back up, lost data could stay lost forever
  • back up regularly to a USB drive and/or DVD's
  • Keep duplicates copies in another location in case of theft or fire
  • If you supsect a virus or spyware, shut your machine down and
• Disable autorun - a virus can jump to your computer in a matter of seconds from a diskette, CD, DVD or USB Flash Drive