“Anti
Virus or me”?!?
I have never received damage
du to a virus.
Let me say that a gain. I
have never….you get the picture.
The only
damage’s that I have
received were caused by “me.”
Especially for me! Thanks
to
me; mostly me any way I think?
Most of the time it’s just dumb things we, (let
get
installed) on our computers.
Or install our
self’s. So that stuff, is in kind of a different category.
(“WHY”?) Ok,
“Because
you gave it permission”. Now it has free rain,
or
run….We will get to that.
After the first part is done.
First we need to talk about
(“Free Anti
Virus”) and brands?
Free Soft ware and web based scanning systems are every
where.
I use a
number of
different brands myself.
But it only makes sense
to have one anti virus running in the back ground! I use multiple
scanners, but
I turn them on and off when I want them. Every Antivirus program you
install will want to auto run when you boot. As far as that goes, most
programs
in general want to start when you’re computer doe’s.
More than one Anti Virus
can make things work funny; sometimes. But not always.
(AVG) works good. My brother
uses it. AVG link.
I use (Avast). I like
it better. http://www.avast.com/index.html
Use what ever Anti Virus
you feel most comfortable using.
(That way you will use it more often.)
Any way, if you don’t have a start up program manager, you
need to get one.
You can pick the programs you want and uncheck the ones you
don’t. (“Easy to use”)
You need the start up manager so you can uninstall unwanted
programs that start and run when you boot the computer. (when they are running
they can’t be uninstalled!)
I use this. (Easy to use.)
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Autoruns.html
After you weed out the programs that you don’t want. Run a
(Mal-ware) scan.
(Spy-ware) scan and a Virus Scan. Do the first two scans as
soon as you can.
This will keep un wanted programs that fall into these
categories from reinstalling; “from temp~ folders or
something like that”.
(Just empty you’re temp~ internet folders and that will clear
out things.) Pages will be reloaded fresh.(On
dial up, it will slow you down for a little while. Not long.)
But on the up side of emptying the temp~ internet folder;
Any bad installers set to install at boot will be gone!
Cookies?
They will
always put a new cookie on when you go back any way.
I take them off just to mess up their research!
Well
I rambled enough…Thanks (SW)
