What is computer theft of services?

There's two main types of computer theft:

1. Main theft of the computer is someone actually stealing it from your possession.

2. Theft of computer services is likely to be a virus stealing information from your computer, or a virus hijacking your computer through a control panel on the attackers side.

How can you be safe from these threats?

1a. By an Alarm for you house, don't show off your computer if you're in an area with a high crime rate - obvious steps to safeguard your house and possessions.

2a. Get a Firewall and Anti-virus, these can be found on the internet and in stores, make sure the program you're downloading to safeguard your computer is legit and ot a virus itself, I would promote things such as the commercially available anti-virus programs. Keep these up to date.

Added; Another example of theft of services would be if you accessed the net using someone elses access point(hot spot) typically via a non-passWord protected modem or link.