Antivirus, Spyware, Firewall
Nowadays, surfing isn't safe, the computer get infected by visiting the offensive websites. But how we can find that the website is good or bad. Here comes, the siteadvisor, you can get it from siteadvisor.com. It is compatible with almost all the web browsers. It indicates the nature of the site with green(good) and red(bad) light. However, we should not depend only on this, we have to install anti-virus, spyware and as well the firewall. There so many companies providing the free anti-virus program like threatfire, avira etc. This anti-virus are good enough to find the viruses installed in your computer and they are weak against the spyware programs, so its better to install the anti-spyware. The spybot search & destroy program detects almost all the spyware and destroy them. Before using the spybot program take a tour on tutorials about that. But how we can find that our computer get infected by the malicious programs, we can easily find the virus by the abnormal changes in the computer, but what about spyware.
If you are using the external modem for the internet connection means the task becomes easy. If you look at the modem you’ll see lights on the front of it. When you’re doing anything on the net you’ll notice lights blinking that indicate that you are Sending Data, and Receiving Data. Depending on how often the lights blink and how fast they blink gives a rough idea of how much activity is going on between your computer and the net. If you are connected to the internet, and are just sitting by your system doing absolutely nothing, those lights have no business to be blinking rapidly. They will flash periodically indicating it’s checking it’s connectivity, however there should be no heavy data transfer of any kind if you are not doing anything on the net. If by chance you notice the lights on your modem is blinking consistently for let’s say a period of 2mins non stop be extremely suspicious. If you have an internal modem, you will not be able to see the lights on your modem, instead you can rely on the two tv looking icons at the bottom right corner of your screen near the clock. Any data being sent and received will be noticed by the blinking of the lights rapidly.
If you are using the external modem for the internet connection means the task becomes easy. If you look at the modem you’ll see lights on the front of it. When you’re doing anything on the net you’ll notice lights blinking that indicate that you are Sending Data, and Receiving Data. Depending on how often the lights blink and how fast they blink gives a rough idea of how much activity is going on between your computer and the net. If you are connected to the internet, and are just sitting by your system doing absolutely nothing, those lights have no business to be blinking rapidly. They will flash periodically indicating it’s checking it’s connectivity, however there should be no heavy data transfer of any kind if you are not doing anything on the net. If by chance you notice the lights on your modem is blinking consistently for let’s say a period of 2mins non stop be extremely suspicious. If you have an internal modem, you will not be able to see the lights on your modem, instead you can rely on the two tv looking icons at the bottom right corner of your screen near the clock. Any data being sent and received will be noticed by the blinking of the lights rapidly.
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