Anti-spyware Spyware and adware are other big threats to computer security. Spyware tracks your Web surfing and reports your interests to a computer on the Internet. Adware sits on your computer and feeds you ads. Both spyware and adware will slow your machine. You need programs to keep spyware and adware from taking root and you need other programs to annihilate spyware and adware that collects on your computer. You should use multiple anti-spyware programs on your computer. Unlike antivirus software and firewalls, they wont conflict. Free anti-spyware programs: Ad-Aware Spybot Search & Destroy SpywareBlaster Emergency software No system is entirely safe from malware. The above programs can remove most infections, but there are some infects that just wont go away. Here are some powerful last-ditch programs you can use to clean up your system. Malwarebytes Windows Defender Offline Safer browsing Microsofts Internet Explorer 8 and earlier is rife with security holes. IE9 is much better, but it isnt available on Windows XP. If you havent upgraded to IE9 on Vista and 7 I strongly recommend you do so. If you want an alternative to IE on any version of Windows, here are some browsers I recommend. Mozilla Firefox Google Chrome - See more at: komando/securitycenter/#sthash.qLHYcrNR.dpuf
Posted on: Fri, 01 Nov 2013 00:10:47 +0000
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