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About 4 years ago I wrote a post called “Security, Microsoft and You…” and I am amazed that very little has changed in that time.
Who’s running anti-virus software and thinks they’re up to date? Are you sure? Have you checked manually.. A lot of anti-virus software is configured to update once a week, but updates can and are released more frequently than that. Downloading manually, regularly, along with the automatic update keeps you safe all the time.. Also, it can reduce the size of your downloads, instead of downloading a big file once a week, little ones once a day.. you’ll hardly notice it..
Who’s got a firewall running? No, get one.. Don’t feel you need one? Do you suffer from the “Who’d want to hack me?” syndrome.. get over it.. Nobody might want to hack you, but that won’t protect you from worms that search for open ports to infect your machine…
We may be using Vista (or XP SP2) but many people are still not using automatic update properly and are still continuing to run to run their computers without anti-virus software, anti-spyware software or a decent firewall solution.
Here’s 3 quick and free solutions you can use to help protect your PC:
- Anti-virus: AVG from Grisoft.
- Anti-spyware: Spybot and Adaware. (These should be run periodically and concurrently):
- Firewall: Commodo Firewall
