Five Tech Mistakes to Avoid
Here are some great tips to keep your PC safe and secure.

A friend of ours was amazingly proud of installing his first ever wireless network. He's not what you'd call technical, so this was a fairly major accomplishment. That is, until we asked how he protected it and he said, "That weep thing."

"WEP?" we asked.

"Yeah, that."

"Why didn't you use WPA or WPA-2?"

"Huh? All it said was WEP."

This user made two mistakes. He didn't upgrade the firmware on his Belkin router (the latest firmware comes with the latest encryption technology), and he didn't protect his wireless network as well as he could have.

In chatting with friends, surfing tech forums, and sifting through our email, we've come up with a list of five common tech tasks that lots of folks overlook. Here they are.

Mistake Number One: Leaving your Wireless Network Unprotected
That nameless guy in the intro did the right thing in enabling WEP to protect his wireless network. It wasn't, however, enough. If he'd updated the router's firmware, he'd have had access to better options.

Read all about it here, courtesy of extremetech.com

Eric