Normally, when a PC’s connected to the internet, it would likely catch viruses, or spywares although not all are harmful to the computer’s operating system. This happens even when you have an anti-virus installed in your pc. Anti-viruses today are just not enough to counter newly coded viruses as they are more harmful and more capable of penetrating a computer’s system than those viruses that were coded five or two years ago.
So I’ve listed here a couple of tips in order for you to help your PCs get rid of those harmful viruses, adwares and spywares. Now, I’m not saying that I am an expert to this but these are just suggestions based on my own experience with my pc.
First is to make sure that you have a good anti-virus installed in your computer. It may not be capable of stopping all viruses from attacking your system but it is always best to have one. Now, anti-virus like McAfee requires you to buy its license so for those of you who are out of budget or if you just don’t like spending for anti-virus software, you may want to consider a couple of ‘good enough’ anti-virus freewares. You may either use AVG or Avast Home Edition.
Both are free and they also provide regular updates so that should at least do you some good. Aside from anti-virus, it would also be good if you could install anti-spyware. Of course, like AVG and Avast, there are also some free anti-spyware available on the net for download. I will not specify which anti-spyware you should use instead I will ask you to read a couple of reviews on different free anti-spyware software. You may find them in sites like www.download.com. And the last but not the least, clean your drives from time to time. Delete all unnecessary file to free some of your disk space and that should improve the perfromance of your pc.
