Windows 10 Security Tips to save your data from hackers

Block ad tracking

You are browsing the different online stores looking for a new smartphone or you are simply gossiping hotels to know how much it would cost you to go on a weekend trip, as you can think of after going to Facebook or watching the news in an online medium will appear hundreds of ads about those you’ve been looking for.

Disable access to the camera

Well, it is a very real possibility and experts warn of how easy it is to do this, so it is more than advisable to lock the camera and only activate it when we are going to use it for a conference or family video call, for example.

Moreover, you can not only disable the camera from the computer configuration, but you can cover it with small protectors that give a lot of peace of mind and cost less than 3 euros most.

Disable access to the microphone

If we block the camera, how can we not block the microphone ? It is true that if you want to instruct Cortana you need it, but if you have decided to silence it completely, you should also do the same with the microphone.

Who can see your account information?

Another of the data that we give to Windows and that he shares with others are the account data , such as name, email. If we go to the “Account information” section we will see that many of the applications we use have access to this data.

Customizing this section of the configuration never hurts and share the least amount of data possible with applications that on the other hand do not need them in many cases

Review the privacy settings after each update

Microsoft usually resets all privacy settings and set them by default when restarting where the company benefits the most, saving as much data as possible.

There have been many complaints about this aspect but from the company the deaf are made. Nothing happens, this does not prevent us also to be attentive and cut the play. To stay alert it is best to disable automatic updates and be aware of when an important one arrives.

Windows 10 Update

This does not mean that it is better not to update, none of that. The updates are important to get new interesting features and improvements in system security, we should not give them up unless we see that they return to give problems as happened last year.