Welcome Fellow Readers, I will be explaining how you can tell if your computer is safe and how to keep your computer safe for assignment eportfoilo entry#8. Today there are many ways to know if your computer is truly safe or not. A couple of ways to know if your computer is being hacked or have already been hacked could be slow computer performance, problems with restarting and or shutting down your computer, missing files and or data, persistent system crashing and or error messages, and without warning pop-up windows. Do not be alarmed because even if your computer is hacked it can also be restored to its normal state. Now, some ways for this to happen or to be avoided could be the basics like updating your software, using antivirus and security system software such as MacAfee, picking a strong password and changing that password ever so often, and backup your data on regular basis. Updating your software just keeps your computer out of reach when it comes to content that is easy to access due to a not updated computer. A system helps keep attackers from seeing your computer is online. You can test your security system by running port scans. This will tell you if you can see your computer and if the outcome is positive then that means you are vulnerable to cyberattacks. Picking a strong password now a days is key due to people making an easy guess and logging in, that also comes into play with changing your password because keeping the hacker guessing can go a long way. Lastly, backing up data is also a compelling cause you never know what will happen if you have something important or personal and your computer shuts off or gets hacked and you cannot get that information back anymore.