Knowledge.

What about your knowledge?? This question is moving around in my head since days.

The main reason for me thinking about this was seing how my classmates have a basic idea about almost each topic that comes up in class. I do not mean the knowledge from out course books. I mean the knowledge that we gain from reading newspapers, different books, listening to documentations and other types of programs.

To be honest, i feel embarassed of my general knowledge. Although i am reading a lot and i am trying to know more but it seems not to work out with me.

I am willing to read and to know more but nothing wants to stay inside my mind, all the information that i am reading seem to vanish after some days.

What execuses do i have? Let's see:

Not enough time to read.

Not really concetrated.

Not interested.

Busy with house, family and studying.

Are these really sufficient reasons? No, they are not.

Mainly in Libya you see people forcing their kids to study their school books and learn them by heart, but do they encourage them to understand what is written in those books? Or do they encourage them to ask questions and try to find the answers else where? No, not everyone is doing that. I am looking here at the different kids and i am trying to follow how they are teaching them. They are actually teaching them to think on their own, and not to follow the adults. They don't keep them silent because it might seem (3eib) in front of the others. They do not teach them to be rude, instead they are well behaved but at the same time questioning everything. i want my kids to grow up with this attitude. And i want to teach it to my self too.

Be Carefull !!!!!

Working on this project about security you can say that i am shocked. I knew that we have to be carefull while surfing in the internet but i never thought that we have to be sooooo carefull. One can not imagine what threats there are in the internet world and how costy this can be. Computer viruses, worms, trojans, hackers, internet thieves, it is amazing and scaring at the same time.

I wanted to remind you of these basic things that you should take care of as an internet user.

• Never leave your PC connected to the internet when you are not using it to minimize the time that your computer is connected.


• You have to install a Firewall, there are some free softwares available online such as zone alarm and make sure that it is always up to date.


• You have to install an Anti virus and also be sure that it is up to date.


• If it is possible install an anti spyware so that no one can take information from your PC.


• Never leave one of the messengers always connected, when you are not using it sign off and close it, it is a big hole where intruders can come into your pc with.


• Never open any ads on websites, you never know if there is a wrong software installing itself on your pc while klicking on it.


• Only brouse websites that you trust and always be carefull of how much information you want to make available.


• Never leave your webcam connected to the PC when you don't want to use it.


• Change your e mail password every once in a while.


• Be carefull when you use downloading programs such as napstar, e mule or limewire.


• Run your scanning programs from to time to make sure that your computer is free from intruders.

Update:

I forgot to mention

• Be carefull in opening any attachement you get, mainly if it is from poeple you don't know but also sometimes from people that you know, sometimes hackers can spoof e mail addresses.
• I would suggest that you download and install firefox internet browser instead of Internet Explorer due to some vulnarabilites from the IE.

Also A.Adam has added some notes in the comments area.