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Thought I would create a Sticky with my recomendations for Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware and generally keeping your computer safe.
Anti-Virus
Well this one is easy for me I only use and only trust one Anti-Virus I recomend and install it on customers computers everyday and best of all its COMPLETELY free. This Anti-Virus is one of the nest in the business and do offer a chargeable version with more features but you wont need it as the free one has all the key features. The Anti-Virus is called Avast and can be download from this URL:
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html
Download this and register to their site, its take 1 minute. They will send you a registration code in your email, enter this and your away. This code need re-new every 13 months but you will NEVER be charged.
This Anti-Virus is very user friendly e.g when it detects a virus when your downloading
It pops-up on full screen and sets an alarm off quite loud.haha. It will tell you if its Maleware etc and give you an option to remove so its simple remove it and dont download again.
I would recomend running a through scan once every week, you can do this while still browsing the internet.
So I hereby announce every Friday as TGTT Virus Scan day.haha. So while your browsing TGTT run your scan
Some Virus are very vicious and can severly harm your computer, they can even DESTROY your hard drive, I dont mean something that a format would fix I mean destroy to a point where the hard drive needs to be replaced. They can destory the sectors on your hard drive, so keep your computer free of them!!
Anti-Spyware
Again there is only one I use and trust, this again is COMPLETELY free and excellent and what it does. This runs very through scans of the hard drive and all files to detect Spyware and never misses. The Anti-Spyware is called Super Anti-Spyware..haha. This can be found at the below URL:
http://www.superantispyware.com/
Download the Free Version for home users, again they have a version that is chargeable its upto you how secur you want to be but for the standard home user the free will will do everything you need. This software is also very user firendly and very easy to start a scan.
It is very important to keep your computer secure especially if you use online banking or buy things through internet websites. Doesnt matter if the internet site is secure and legit, if spywar is on your computer it can record every key type depend what virus you have. So basically it can go in and find your credit details then ay goodbye to your $$$...Simple as that.
I would also recomend investing in a Wireless Router must wireless router have pretty decent firewalls on them so the internet gets filter before it even gets to your computer. They are quite cheap and you could pick up a wireless router and wireless dongle for around £40 for a good one, if you already have a wireless card in your laptop then you can just buy the Wireless Router which you will get for around £30.
When you are settinsg up your wireless router it will give you an option for encryption (Wireless Key) set this to WPA-PSK with TKIP as the authenication, then make up your password this can be anything between 8-64 characters. This encryption is very hard to crack turst me I have tried the reason it is so hard is due to TKIP, this is known as 'Wrapping' basically what it does is it wraps your wireless encryption key and sends out false packets, the way to crack a wireless encryption is you take all the packets sent out and use software to crack the key as each packet will contain a piece of your security key hidden inside it. So with TKIP it send out false packets which then stop the person cracking your password as they have alot of false characters being sent out
**WARNING**
Do not buy,install,use Norton Anti-Virus on your computer. This is by far the WORST anti-virus I have seen, its an absolute joke and couldnt detect a Virus if you point it towards the Virus file itself. The number of times I have to uninstall this from customers computers (even though they paid for it) and installed Avast to clean it up the mess Norton has made is unreal. Not to mention it is by far the BIGGEST cause of incompatiability on computers in the world!!
Hope this helps you out!! Im going to try and keep this thread clean you please dont get offend if your post gets deleted off this....but all feedback welcome about what you think is the best
Christy
Thought I would create a Sticky with my recomendations for Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware and generally keeping your computer safe.
Anti-Virus
Well this one is easy for me I only use and only trust one Anti-Virus I recomend and install it on customers computers everyday and best of all its COMPLETELY free. This Anti-Virus is one of the nest in the business and do offer a chargeable version with more features but you wont need it as the free one has all the key features. The Anti-Virus is called Avast and can be download from this URL:
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html
Download this and register to their site, its take 1 minute. They will send you a registration code in your email, enter this and your away. This code need re-new every 13 months but you will NEVER be charged.
This Anti-Virus is very user friendly e.g when it detects a virus when your downloading
It pops-up on full screen and sets an alarm off quite loud.haha. It will tell you if its Maleware etc and give you an option to remove so its simple remove it and dont download again.I would recomend running a through scan once every week, you can do this while still browsing the internet.
So I hereby announce every Friday as TGTT Virus Scan day.haha. So while your browsing TGTT run your scan
Some Virus are very vicious and can severly harm your computer, they can even DESTROY your hard drive, I dont mean something that a format would fix I mean destroy to a point where the hard drive needs to be replaced. They can destory the sectors on your hard drive, so keep your computer free of them!!
Anti-Spyware
Again there is only one I use and trust, this again is COMPLETELY free and excellent and what it does. This runs very through scans of the hard drive and all files to detect Spyware and never misses. The Anti-Spyware is called Super Anti-Spyware..haha. This can be found at the below URL:
http://www.superantispyware.com/
Download the Free Version for home users, again they have a version that is chargeable its upto you how secur you want to be but for the standard home user the free will will do everything you need. This software is also very user firendly and very easy to start a scan.
It is very important to keep your computer secure especially if you use online banking or buy things through internet websites. Doesnt matter if the internet site is secure and legit, if spywar is on your computer it can record every key type depend what virus you have. So basically it can go in and find your credit details then ay goodbye to your $$$...Simple as that.
I would also recomend investing in a Wireless Router must wireless router have pretty decent firewalls on them so the internet gets filter before it even gets to your computer. They are quite cheap and you could pick up a wireless router and wireless dongle for around £40 for a good one, if you already have a wireless card in your laptop then you can just buy the Wireless Router which you will get for around £30.
When you are settinsg up your wireless router it will give you an option for encryption (Wireless Key) set this to WPA-PSK with TKIP as the authenication, then make up your password this can be anything between 8-64 characters. This encryption is very hard to crack turst me I have tried the reason it is so hard is due to TKIP, this is known as 'Wrapping' basically what it does is it wraps your wireless encryption key and sends out false packets, the way to crack a wireless encryption is you take all the packets sent out and use software to crack the key as each packet will contain a piece of your security key hidden inside it. So with TKIP it send out false packets which then stop the person cracking your password as they have alot of false characters being sent out
**WARNING**
Do not buy,install,use Norton Anti-Virus on your computer. This is by far the WORST anti-virus I have seen, its an absolute joke and couldnt detect a Virus if you point it towards the Virus file itself. The number of times I have to uninstall this from customers computers (even though they paid for it) and installed Avast to clean it up the mess Norton has made is unreal. Not to mention it is by far the BIGGEST cause of incompatiability on computers in the world!!
Hope this helps you out!! Im going to try and keep this thread clean you please dont get offend if your post gets deleted off this....but all feedback welcome about what you think is the best
Christy
