There are a few ways to determine if your computer is safe or not. Having a password is one of the basic ways to make your computer safe, a simple yet efficient way to ensure that no one can gain access to your computer. Keeping all your software up to date also ensures the safety of the information that is on your computer, and limits the vulnerabilities and risks that you can have. Having an antivirus program for your computer can stop your computer from being breached and your information from being stolen. Not opening phishing and spam email attachments can help as well, when you open that email attachment you could possibly be creating an opening for your information on the computer to be compromised. Avoid this by deleting and reporting the emails that are being sent to you. Do not have your passwords to different apps and websites saved within the computer, this can be detrimental depending on what apps and websites you use. If one is to gain access to the apps and websites the hacker can possibly get personable information like an SSN, birthdays, tax information, card numbers, etc. This can be detrimental and hard to retrieve depending on how and what they stole. Backing up the data on your computer is also important some computers do this automatically but sometimes you have to manually do it but this can make it easier to transfer information from your old computer to your new computer if needed. A reliable VPN is also a way to ensure that your computer is safe and secure, while the network you run on could be private an extra layer of protection can help with a VPN it encrypts the data and masks the IP address.