Protecting Your Computer from Malware

Malware is a catch-all term taking in viri, trojans, and everything else.  Stuff that can destroy your computer, stuff that opens the door to hackers and crackers.

You need to have  good malware detection on your computer which runs or you run it often.

It is not difficult to protect your computer.

The day you buy it, before you connect to the Internet, you bring up whatever is already on your computer, (most come fully bloated with all sorts of stuff).

You run that detector the first time, you defragment the hard drive you get rid of whatever is there that doesn’t need to be there.

Then you connect to the Internet.  Usually your first port of call is downloading another browser of your choice.

Your second action is to download a malware detector.

Whatever came with your computer is virtually obsolete.  Hence you need something else.

Search for ‘Free’ malware detectors or Anti-virus programs.

Now you are going to download one of them on your computer.  And you are going to run it.

Then, the next day, you download another so that you have two different programs at the same time.

There are those which attack each other, and those which work with each other.

To tell you what I use would seem like I was being paid by the company.   You’ll figure it out on your own.

Basically, you want one of those new complete ‘system’ care applications which can do everything.

Then you want one of those highly recommended programs that are as new as you can find.

The first is your foundation, you’ll keep that one, only upgrading.

The second is fluid.  You’ll use it for a month, then try another.

Every month you change that program to a totally different one.

If you do a search of free malware download you’ll come across a number of programs.

Look at them, see which ones are really free, which ones give you a ‘free trial’ and which ones will load a crummy fragment of the malware program for free and then keep offering you the pay version.

You’ll catch on very quickly if you pay attention.

Downloading and deleting malware programs when you finish with them is not a waste of time.

It is like using different bug spray.   You always used this one, but the bugs seem to like it, so you change to that one. Then you try something else.

If you’re quick you’ll change before the bugs adapt to it.

The same with computer bugs.

If you are constantly changing the protector(s) it will be difficult for your machine to be hacked.

Even if Bad Boy Cracker developed a great bug to eat through Supre Protection  once it does it bangs up against Foundation Safe.

While Bad Boy Cracker develops a prog to eat the Foundation, you’ve installed Saf Gard.   It hits this wall and the prog never sees the Foundation which, btw, is updated.

If Bad Boy Cracker goes back to find a hole in Saf Gard… you’ve moved to Lock Out…

Bad Boy Cracker will find someone else who is using the same prog that came fully bloated on Windows 8 and crack that.

Never become complacent.

Every day run your malware.  Some progs run on their own, sure, but you want that hands on to make sure it’s running to make sure it is up to date.