Keeping Your System Up To Date

This Page Provides Critical Information Necessary To Keep Your System Protected And Up to Date.

This page applies primarily to our Windows users which is 95% of our visitors. This information will protect you from hackers, viruses, worms, trojans, bugs and many other programs.

1) Critical Update Windows on a Regular Basis

Windows Update Page - At least once a week go to this webpage and run the check to make sure your Windows system has all of the latest security fixes and updates. Microsoft regularly has bug fixes and security patches available. Running your system on the Internet without these updates leaves your system vulnerable.

2) Critical Have a Virus Protection program installed and running on your computer and update the virus definitions weekly.

There are tens of thousands of viruses out there in the real world. Some will display silly little things on your screen, some will corrupt your hard drive and others will do just about everything in between. Then you will loose everything on your system. There are trojans and worms which will steal your passwords, send your friends nasty emails from your account or take over your computer to do illegal things such as DOS server attacks. It is very important to have anti-virus software running to block viruses as they try to enter your system.

The following is a list of the most popular virus protection programs. You can find any of these for $20.00 or less.

Norton Antivirus by Symantec they also have trialware available

McAfee Anti-Virus by Network Associates
Panda
Trend Micro
Kaspersky also offers trialware
V Catch - Has a free version with advertising

AVG Anti-Virus They also offer trialware and a Free Version for Home Users

More Extensive List - from Yahoo

ZD Net Review on Antivirus Programs

3) Critical Have a Firewall program installed and running on your computer.

A firewall block unwanted access to your computer. Without a firewall, a hacker can take control of your computer remotely.

I recommend Zone Alarm. They offer a free version. Zone Alarm will update itself as necessary.

4) Use a Spyware Detection program.

These programs detect programs that sneak onto your computer and collect your personal data. These sneaky programs will slow down your computer. The Spyware detection programs should be run once about every two weeks.

Spybot - Search & Destroy

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5) Once a month, run a program such as Belarc Advisor to make sure your Windows updates installed correctly.

Belarc Advisor

We do not profit from any of these products. This page is informational only and is not professional advise.

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