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Make Your PC More Secured With These TIPS by D34lw4p(m): 2:54am On Sep 01, 2015
Here are some tips which will enable you to make your PC more secure.

Anti-virus

1. Never, ever turn off the resident protection of your antivirus even if it decreases performance. Upgrade if necessary.

2. Keep your virus definitions up-to-date. Use the automatic update feature of your anti-virus and try not to ignore the "Do you want to update now" message however often it might pop up.

3. Even if you update regularly and you have not seen any suspicious activity on your PC, do a deep scan at least once a month.

4. Always create an emergency boot disk and keep it in a safe place.

5. Run a deep scan in safe mode at least once every two months to kill viruses that would otherwise remain hidden.

Firewalls

1. If you are unsure about the alert displayed by your firewall, try searching it on the internet.

2. A firewall is a powerful tool that requires an understanding of how the program works and exactly what it is doing and whether it is secureor not. Reading the help files is extremely important in successful configuration of your firewall.

3. If you are running a third party firewall,be sure to turn off the Windows Firewall.

4. You can temporarily disable a firewall by right clicking the icon in the tray. This is handy when you know a site is one you can trust but your firewall is blocking it. But remember to re-enable it as soon as possible.

5. Read firewall notices carefully when they pop up so that you don't let a bad thing in or prevent good traffic.

Anti-Spyware

1. You should regularly check for updates. Enable the automatic update feature.

2. Remember to do a scan every now and then, or schedule scans if your program allows it. If you don't want to sit that long for scans to complete, use a single folder for all your downloads, then scan only that folder, Windows installation folder and the Registry. Alternately, you can do a quick scan if your program allows it.

Anti-Spam

1. Be patient with anti-spam software, it will get better over time.

2. Even if it looks that your anti-spam software is working great, periodically check the 'Spam' folder for good mail. None of the anti-spam software is perfect right now.

3. Don't give your anti-spam software too much rules, because it will not learn anything then. It is better if it learns on its own.

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Re: Make Your PC More Secured With These TIPS by Bonapart(m): 9:21am On Sep 22, 2015
Hoe-kay..... grazie
Re: Make Your PC More Secured With These TIPS by Sicozone(m): 9:21am On Sep 22, 2015
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Re: Make Your PC More Secured With These TIPS by damton(m): 9:21am On Sep 22, 2015
ok.
Re: Make Your PC More Secured With These TIPS by Sijo01(f): 9:21am On Sep 22, 2015
The attached do pop up from my desktop once in a while... .. .. .. . Who can explain what it means in a laneman's language please?

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Re: Make Your PC More Secured With These TIPS by dave2meek(m): 9:22am On Sep 22, 2015
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Re: Make Your PC More Secured With These TIPS by adesegun121(m): 9:22am On Sep 22, 2015
Ok
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Re: Make Your PC More Secured With These TIPS by MrImole: 9:22am On Sep 22, 2015
E se olootu.
Re: Make Your PC More Secured With These TIPS by Rayman5(m): 9:23am On Sep 22, 2015
Ok I've taken note.
Re: Make Your PC More Secured With These TIPS by Ask4bigneyo(m): 9:23am On Sep 22, 2015
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Re: Make Your PC More Secured With These TIPS by paulolee(m): 9:23am On Sep 22, 2015
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Re: Make Your PC More Secured With These TIPS by SylarsMcQuins: 9:24am On Sep 22, 2015
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Re: Make Your PC More Secured With These TIPS by Segadem(m): 9:24am On Sep 22, 2015
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Re: Make Your PC More Secured With These TIPS by mayorjosh(m): 9:24am On Sep 22, 2015
Thanks for the tips
Re: Make Your PC More Secured With These TIPS by efilefun(m): 9:25am On Sep 22, 2015
Another important app to have this days is ADBLOCK it can be easily downloaded from google or just check out the extensions of your browsers. This will block those annoying and irrelevant ads popping up while someone is doing something very important online, the most annoying part is most of the pop up ads are mostly Bleep stuffs

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Re: Make Your PC More Secured With These TIPS by saintTim(m): 9:25am On Sep 22, 2015
What about anti porn wall embarassed
Re: Make Your PC More Secured With These TIPS by exemen: 9:25am On Sep 22, 2015
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Re: Make Your PC More Secured With These TIPS by boboLIL(m): 9:26am On Sep 22, 2015
Thanchuu!
Re: Make Your PC More Secured With These TIPS by iAmMystical(m): 9:27am On Sep 22, 2015
Pls a fellow nairalander is confused....which is better macbook or windows laptop...which one do I go 4
Re: Make Your PC More Secured With These TIPS by Lesgupnigeria(m): 9:27am On Sep 22, 2015
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Re: Make Your PC More Secured With These TIPS by Nobody: 9:37am On Sep 22, 2015
I only use Windows defender and keep it up to date, you don't any antivirus.
Re: Make Your PC More Secured With These TIPS by haggdon: 9:37am On Sep 22, 2015
Nice tips..love it
Re: Make Your PC More Secured With These TIPS by Spikkylee: 9:51am On Sep 22, 2015
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Re: Make Your PC More Secured With These TIPS by Innodon(m): 9:51am On Sep 22, 2015
Ok
Re: Make Your PC More Secured With These TIPS by Crystalsemerald(m): 9:58am On Sep 22, 2015
Sijo01:
The attached do pop up from my desktop once in a while... .. .. .. . Who can explain what it means in a laneman's language please?
Your Windows OS is either fake or not activated. (Operating System).
Re: Make Your PC More Secured With These TIPS by ITbomb(m): 10:00am On Sep 22, 2015
All these stories about virus and constant updates are useless if you are not discipline in your browsing

In my experience as IT admin and Support, PCs with Avast running have most instances of resident malwares and ironically the owners are the ones that are always jittery whenever they say update database.
If you are not a corporate entity, you don't need most of those special anti spam, Internet protection packages

For personal systems, just Get Microsoft Security Essential Free or enable Windows Defender on Windows 10, then install USB guard
Click here to see how to learn how to stay forever free from viruses that attack and hide files in your USB flash drive

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Re: Make Your PC More Secured With These TIPS by Crystalsemerald(m): 10:00am On Sep 22, 2015
iAmMystical:
Pls a fellow nairalander is confused....which is better macbook or windows laptop...which one do I go 4
If you have the reggae and the blues, bro I'd advise you go Mac, reasons best known,

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