How do you defend yourself against online threats?

Philippines
April 15, 2009 1:41am CST
This can happen to all of us. Yesterday I was visiting a site for free downloads. This site offers free software (useful software). I downloaded file and all was good until I noticed and icon that is displayed on the system tray of my PC. Its weird since I never installed this software before. The bad thing of this program is that its slows down my computer to point that browsing the net is a pain. It displays pop-ups and ads that so annoying. I figured out a software that can resolve this but to no avail. Can anyone advice me of a way to remove this annoyances and make my computer safer as I surf the net?
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7 responses
leonuxury
@leonuxury (6)
• China
15 Apr 09
Why not install Ghost which can recover all the data stored in disk c after your computer is attacted by something unpleasent.
aldztrust
@aldztrust (38)
• Philippines
15 Apr 09
Installing ghost is a good idea but I once had a problem with the software instead. Ghost actually amplify the problem since the malware embedded itself to the Ghost file so that every time that I restart my pc after it was infected, it regenerates itself with Ghost. So, from then on, Im not using it anymore.
damojinghong
@damojinghong (349)
• China
21 Apr 09
Bad luck,there are so many threat and virus on the net we must take more care when surfing.i encounter the similar condition but i have to intalll the os again.I think if you are only browse news on the net with anti virus software ,it has small chance to attacked by virus. good luck for you !
emojboy
@emojboy (632)
• Philippines
19 Apr 09
I am using three antivirus applications at the same time COMODO Internet Security, Avire Free Edition, Macafee Enterprise Edition 8.0.0. My COMODO is a torrent downloaded application and I updated only once and got complete antivirus database updates. My AVIRA is always updated manually while mcafee enterprise I need to update by downloading its manual updates that has a size of 98-100 megabytes. I also have a USB Disk Security and lots of maintenance utilities like tune-up utilities, winutilites, advance care system 3, ashampoo optimizer and atf cleaner. I do not use windows update. This is my full protection of my windows xp. I got Athlon x2 5000+ and 2 gig ram for running my operating system.
user_786
@user_786 (1338)
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15 Apr 09
there aren't many thing , just the common methods of using antivirus, antispyware, firewall etc, can help you protect yourself from threats
net_ankit
@net_ankit (643)
• India
15 Apr 09
Ya, You can delete these type of softwares by 1 application which all in one utility software name " Glary Utilities" try to findout full version on net. It helps to clean your tempfiles from all the drives togather, force remove, registry cleaner, splitter etc. you know this is nothing but be alert from FISHERS whos cheat with the users, Specially alert for Online Banking login, before 5 days I got mail from other bank where I dont have account, It was fishing mail.
firstsite2008
@firstsite2008 (392)
• India
17 Apr 09
i have an antivirus installed + a firewall and I daily update them. I also install latest patches of windows and keep my system update to date so that no virus or torjan can sneak into my system.
kapil_poundarik
@kapil_poundarik (960)
• India
15 Apr 09
well i dont download suspicious softwares specially from suspicious sites they mostly add spy wares and other Trojans in their softwares, well i use Norton 360 and whenever i download a file from net i scan it first then i run it.