How to Avoid spyware
Is your
- Internet browser very very slow
- Computer running like the handbrakes are on
- System tray filled with strange icons
- Browser spitting up uncontrollable popups
- hard drive strangely noisy, even when you’re not using the PC
- modem lights blinking furiously, even if you’re not doing anything online
You are probably infected by malware.
How to get rid of spywares – easy guide
Install a firewall now!
Don’t use IE, but if you must use it — use it sensibly, it does give you fair warning when you wander off the shady parts of the Internet, do not, I repeat, do not ignore the IE warnings, read the warnings, so that you know what you are allowing to happen — don’t blindly click YES or OK.
Toughen up your Windows – you will need to get your hands dirty on this because it will require going inside the Windows Administrator panel and perhaps editing some registry entries.
Make sure that the Windows update is not disabled, Microsoft tries hard to deliver fixes that address vulnerabilities of Windows, make sure you are getting this as soon as it’s released.
Stay away from dodgy software, if you really like free software, get FOSS (Free Open Source Software), visit sourceforge.net or code.google.com, there are many others.
Get your music legitimately, shady channels of getting your music is fraught with risk.
Get real time protection from Viruses and other malware, install an antivirus of your liking, I use Avast or AVG for my Windows machine, Clamav for Linux and OSX.
Get the Windows Defender here
Turn off the the Auto preview of your email client, if it’s on, it is like opening your gates wide to terrorists, once an infected email gets through your inbox, it will automatically execute when preview is activated.
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