A very common question always being asked - I used my PC for net surfing and normal day-to-day office usage for spreadsheets and documents handling. But i have come across a lot junk mail lately and i've been having a lot of advertisement pop-ups lately, and even pop-ups that tells me my system has been infected by Virus!!!
How am i supposed to do???
This is a fairly common question asked by normal computer users that only uses computer as their day-to-day tool to do their job be it at home or office.
At first, 99% of the users who ask this type of question are windows user. Why?? You may ask.
The answer is, Windows has become a computer illiterate's operating system that caters for anyone who doesn't know computer but still able to operate the PC to perform tasks they need to perform.
Isn't it superb?? A super user-friendly computer operating system that makes anyone able to operate a very complicated computer system with ease... just a few clicks, you're on your way...
This is how software company makes money... This is how hardware vendor makes money too...
How could this be possible?? You may ask...
Software vendor like the famous M$ Windows will tell their user, every minimum 3 years, they'd upgrade the operating system to a brand new, more powerful, more user friendly and over-flooded features to their new operating system. Same goes to their popular M$ Office suite too... From Office97, 2000, XP... 2003...
In year 2006, are you gonna be obselete while still using the old Office 2000 still?? Come one, upgrade your Office suite, you're outdated!!!!
But, frankly speaking, how much of the so call new features that you'd use with the ever changing, newer version of Office suite that you've been upgrading every now and then??
Everytime M$ suggest a new operating system, and office suite, it'll need a more power hardware in order to run smooth on all this new toy for you... Will you want to be using a 40 seconds bootup time Win2k running 256MB RAM??? instead of comparing to my 15sec boot up time of my 1GB RAM and 120GB 7200RPM hard drive running on 3.2Ghz Intel Pentium 4 processor? Mine is faster than yours....
This is the game these big shots are playing... Mine is newer than yours, mine is faster than yours... but how fast?? few seconds different??
Well, gamers... you shouldn't read on anymore, i'm sure you won't be agree with me... But heck.. this is windows users...
Opps... i'm out of topic...
How to protect my Windows?? How to make my Windows bullet prove??
At first, install M$ Windows' best friend - Symantec Norton Anti-Virus... For what?? fighting against the virus of course.... How the hack of all these computer viruses came from anyway??
Ah... followed by the new comer - Spyware... to keep the long story short, it's a tool that could grab your personal information and send it back to its 'master' to "learn" about you and your computer system... Spy-Ware.. as it describes, you know what it means, right?
Last but not least, Firewall...
What??? A firewall??? I thought it's a high-tech toy for corporate??
Nuh... no longer now... Nowadays, personal firewall for PC is everywhere.. some free, some shareware or commercial. Who said your desktop behind the broadband cable/xDSL doesn't need a proper firewall sits on your desktop to prevent your PC being hack???
Okay.. okay.. i know.. i know... I'm long winded...
I'd used ClamAV/Avast/AVG... These 3s are meant for personal, non-commercial use...
If you need a power from commercial version of anti-virus, you could try Trend Micro's http://housecall.trendmicro.com which is a famous online antivirus scanning tool. But it can only scan your system or clean the virus while you're online and not rebooting yet... But once you're rebooting your system, you're on your own... ;)
Anti-spyware... This time, M$ has its own version of anti-spyware, though from the time of writing, it's still in beta version, still, it's useful? If you're using genuine windows, with the "recommended" hardware being install, no harm installing it, right? Else, i'd go for the famous free - Spybot - Search and Destroy...
Ok.. the last one, personal firewall. You've got a few choices, the famous one ZoneAlarm(without pro... as you know, "pro" comes with a price, alright?) and Jetico Personal Firewall. ZoneAlarm is famous and long in the market, it's cool, user friendly and automated... like Windows :)
On the other hand, Jetico gives you full control of everything, it'll keep asking you if you allow the applications to communicate to the outside world. You have to be very good and know about the apps you've install. One word, it's for advanced user, not for novice...
Alright, you make your choices now??
Come on... where to get these ?? Can't you just google around???
regards,
Skywalker
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No matter how bad the way M$ make money, they still the first choice for end user.
Linux is simply too complex for end user especially beginner. The number of distro of Linux available already make the user to confuse when they want to set up an Linux desktop.
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