21 July, 2011

10 Tips to Get Rid from Virus and Spyware

Here are my 10 Tips to Get Rid from Virus and Spyware.

1. Common sense.
I think that the best way to avoid virus and spyware is to just be careful as to what sites you visit and what you download. This common sense is important as having a solid Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware software installed in your system.
2. Avoid P2P file sharing programs.
Another way to avoid virus and spyware is to avoid P2P filesharing programs. These programs such as limewire and BitTorrent are free. It is a convenient way to download and share music, documents, and software programs over the Internet but a shared files in this kind of programs can contain viruses, spyware, and other unwanted software.
3. Avoid accessing porn sites.
The most popular sites on the net today are porno sites, and sad to say that virus and spyware are more abundant on this kind of sites so we must avoid accessing pornography sites. One of the examples of this kind of virus is the blackmail virus. We must be aware of this to avoid virus and spyware.
4. Beware of virus hoaxes.
Sometimes we can receive an email and pop-ups purporting to inform us about a security risk, so we must be wise enough to identify this kind of virus hoaxes.
5. Try to use Microsoft Security Essentials.
I have found it a powerful at detecting viruses and worms before they infect the system. But the sad thing is that it requires more than 1 GB of RAM otherwise it slows down your system noticeably.
6. Use a firewall.
A firewall protects you against a number of different online threats, it acts as a barrier between the public internet and your private computer or network and blocks threats including some viruses.
7. Always keep your anti-virus updated.
Every year many of viruses, Trojans , worms and malwares are created to harm the or disable the functioning of the PCs. That is why if we miss to update our anti-virus we are no longer protected from this kind of viruses.
8. Always run a virus scan and spyware sweep.
As a part of computer maintenance, we should run a virus scan and spyware sweep. It is really important to detect any virus and spyware in our computer. Remember that virus and adware are annoying and spyware is destructive. To remove this kind of treats, just like my previous post I think again that AVIRA and MALWAREBYTES can help us about this matter.
9. Use a browser such as Mozilla Firefox, which blocks most adware.
10. If all else fails, switch to linux . lol

1 comment :

  1. Viruses are replicating programs that infect computers usually through file transfers, file sharing, emails or even through the use of the humble USB Flash Drive. The main goal of viruses is to cause disruption to the use of your computer by displaying cryptic messages on your screen, corrupting other programs and in some cases deletion of your valuable data. But the spywares are the programs designed to steal information from you such as your personal details and in some cases credit card and important password details. Worms are just like viruses in the regard of being computer software programmed by another human, designed to infect a computer and do undesirable actions to that infected machine. A Trojan horse is a non-self-replicating program, it deceives the user by pretending to do a desirable action for that user, but instead it opens backdoors facilitating unauthorized access to the infected computer. Thanks

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