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The following advice is for people on a windows computer

1. Make sure your local computer is safe. For this purpose you can use a free and reliable updated antivirus software such as:

• Microsoft Security Esstenials
  
• AVG
• Avast
• Avira

Never run more than one anti virus at once as they will canel eachother out and cause problems.

2. Make sure windows is always kept up-to-date with the latest secruity updates (via windows update)

3. Check whether all of your web applications are up-to-date (such as Firefox, Internet Explorer etc).

4. Pick the strongest possible passwords for the main cPanel account, MySQL, FTP and mail users. Never use the same passwords for different users. For example a MySQL user should not have the same password as your cPanel user or an FTPuser. It is essential that your cPanel user's password is not found in any file on your account by any means;

5. Insure your computer has the Windows Firewall enabled and you're using a secure wireless network.

6. Scan your computer for Spyware using Spybot Search & Destory and Malwarebytes.

7. Avoid having directories with permissions above 755. If your applications require such directories, try to put them outside your webroot (public_html) or place a .htaccess file in them containing "deny from all" to restrict public access to these files.

Use only secure / encrypted connections when logging in cPanel (https://yourdomain.com/cpanel).

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