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Computer Security – 10 Tips to Protect Your PC From Malware Attack

Computer users have to deal with all sorts of security threats each day, computer viruses, computer worms, hackers, phishing, spyware. These malicious attacks may damage your boot sector, system BIOS, software and data files, cause disruption of internet traffic, create back door to allow unauthorized access to your computer, and steal confidential information from you. So how do they spread over the internet?

Malware including computer viruses, worms, and Trojan horses are spread via email, instant messages and file sharing. Computer viruses need a host program to run whereas computer worms are self contained and replicate automatically. Trojan horses usually do not replicate, they are downloaded and run by the computer users pretending to be some innocent programs, such as free games or free screensavers.

Hackers are not malicious programs, they are computer users who gain unauthorized access to your computer. Hackers look for unprotected network or enter you system via a back door installed by other malware.

Spyware are usually downloaded from web sites, email messages, instant messages or file sharing network. Sometimes, spyware are installed with some legitimate programs when you accept the End User License Agreement.

Phishing is an emerging form of malicious attack. Phishers send out spam messages pretending to be legitimate companies such as banks, financial institutes, PayPal. They would use scare tactic to urge you to update your personal information on phish sites which look remarkably similar to the legitimate company sites. If you log in, the phishers will steal your id and password.

Now that you know how these security threats work, here are 10 tips to protect your computer:

1) Install an antivirus + antispyware program or all-in-one internet security program. Do not run any free scan and free download unless you have done your research on the software developer. Some free downloads can be spyware programs or malware that create security hole in your system.

2) Install security programs that provide active real time protection. Some free antivirus programs can only detect viruses that have already infected your PC. However, if your computer is already infected, you may not be able to reach the free virus scan sites at all.

3) Keep your internet security programs up to date. New viruses, spyware, worms are coming out every day, you need the most updated definition database to block these threats.

4) Install a firewall program and configure your firewall program to block any unsolicited inbound or outbound communication. This can protect you from hacker attack.

5) Download security patches for your application programs and browser programs. Some programs are vulnerable to malicious attack and the patches can fix these vulnerabilities.

6) Be vigilant and selective about what you download to your computer. Do not download free games, freeware, free music files etc unless you are certain that they are harmless.

7) Be careful with email attachment. Do not open unexpected email attachment even if it comes from people in your address book. An internet security program can protect your computer by scanning the attachment before you open it or save it to your computer.

8) Delete spam messages or install a spam filter. Some spam messages are merely a nuisance but some contain links which land on bogus sites where your personal information can be stolen (phishing). Computer viruses and spyware can also be spread using spam messages. Do not click on the link or open any attachment of spam messages

9) Watch out for hoaxes. If you receive an email message warning you about a computer virus, search the internet to see if it is a hoax. Don’t delete any file or spread the message to other people unless you know that the warning is true.

10) Change your password frequently and do not use the same password for all sites. Use complex words with characters and numbers.

To sum up, malicious attacks come in various forms and they spread and attack your computer in different ways. However, there are software tools available to help you fend off these attacks. If you practice all of the above, you can reduce the chance of malicious attack substantially.

Under Virus Attack, Virus Removal, Please Help?

A friend sent me mail via facebook that contained a link, very foolishly i clicked on. Turned out someone hacked his profile and was spreading viruses through it. Now im stuck with a virus wich my AVG is useless against.
I keep getting error messages, the virus has disabled help and support but left taskmanager and regedit functional, it disabled my firewall and disable the “enable firewall” boxy.
I cant use system restore as the virus setted it to the day it installed itself.
Do you know of any virus removal programs that is effective, and free?.
I cant access the internet through the infected computer and thus cant just do an online scan.. I am willing to buy software at a shop but will not give away my credit card or bank details over the internet…

Do I Need To Buy A New Pc Spyware Attack Or Use Spyware Removal Software Instead!?

Throwing away a PC just because of a spyware.
Is your dad as rich as Bill Gates ???
Use a spyware removal tool.
Spybot is the best free anti-spyware tool that that contains many features.http://www.safer-networking.org/
Spybot immunize your computer against some spyware.
It modifies Internet Explorer to block a lot of the bad stuff known to Spybot.
There is a second layer of protection for IE that blocks anything that should come through by different aspects.
Spybot Resident a tool which check permanently running application to protect your system.
Spybot Resident TeaTimer is a tool which perpetually monitors the processes called/initiated and immediately detects known malicious processes.
It giving you some options how to deal with this process in the future:
You can set TeaTimer to be informed when the process tries to start again automatically kill the process or generally allow the process to run
There is also an option to delete the file associated with this process.
In addition, TeaTimer detects, when something wants to change some critical registry keys. TeaTimer can protect you against such changes again giving you an option: You can either Allow or Deny the change.
Spybot host file locking is a tool which locks the hosts file to prevent unauthorized changes.
Locking the hosts file will prevent most hosts hijackers (even unknown) from doing harm;
Locking the IE settings will prevent other users of your computer to change your preferences.
Spybot ActiveX is a tool to display a list of installed ActiveX applications it will display a green checkmark in front of ActiveX applications known as legitimate,
and a red sign in front if applications known as illegitimate
Spybot process list is a tool displays a list of all currently running processes,
including some information about them. It also allows you to kill some processes
Spybot System startup tool lists all programs that are started at Windows startup.
If those items are in the database coming with Spybot, it will display some more information about them.
It also allows you to disable (and enable) items, as well as delete them, change them or insert new items. The entries will be displayed in different colours:
Green: legitimate program
Yellow: unknown, unneeded or unambiguous program (e.g. malware programs might use the same file name as legitimate programs)
Red: malicious program
Spybot system internal is a registry cleaner that fix error in windows registry.