How to Keep Your Sites and Computer Secure
If you’re not absolutely sure your blog, computer, or other web sites are secure, I urge you to RIGHT NOW check this course out.
It’s the WordPress Blog Security Strategies class taught by Cathy Perkins, “the WordPress Wizard,” now in a home study version.
You will be able to get your Action Guides, listen to the class when it’s convenient to you, and/or read the transcript.
Lest you think keeping your sites secure is scary “techie” stuff, let me reassure you.
I’m not at all technical, and I was able to follow everything. Cathy gives screen shots of every single little step you have to do, so there’s absolutely NOTHING intimidating about this.
It will give you the peace of mind of knowing that no hacker will be able to get at your sites.
Having had my blogs hacked twice now, I can tell you,
it’s a MOST UNWELCOME intrusion into your life when it happens.
Not to mention the trust that’s destroyed when someone goes to your site and gets a big ugly red warning message that the site has a virus and is dangerous to your computer.
I shudder when I remember. It took me a couple of days to get it all fixed.
Even then, I didn’t know how or why it happened, or how to fix it.
Now I do.
By the way, Cathy covered much more than how to keep a WordPress blog safe. She covered security strategies of all kinds, including your own computer.
Lest you think, “I have a Mac, I’m immune,” think again. Right in the middle of the course, someone contacted me about how she got a message that one of my sites had a virus. No one else could see that warning. It turned out HER COMPUTER had the virus, not my site!
I checked this with my hosting company to make sure. This person thought she was immune because she had a Macintosh computer. Not so! They too can get infected with malware, sypware and all the rest.
So none of us is immune. If you have a blog at blogger.com, you are not immune.
If you hire a webmaster to take care of your sites, does that person know how to make sure your sites are secure? Find out. Really dig, since most webmasters would likely be reluctant to admit to not knowing how to do this. Urge them to take this course. Remind them that it can be a selling point for their services. (”I can make sure your sites are bullet-proof from hackers.”)
So check out this course now, for yourself and/or your webmaster.
Remember, the price goes up in 48 hours or so.
(I don’t know what you pay your webmaster per hour, but if your site is hacked, it will be much more than the cost of this course, I can tell you.)
Note: If you do nothing else, listen to the Publishing Coach Weekly teleseminar I did with Cathy a couple of weeks ago. You’ll get a few of the strategies, anyway.
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