Thursday, May 19, 2011

Antivirus software not enough to protect your system anymore!

When it was thought that the proliferation and dissemination of malware had reached a critical mass in 2008, it's obvious that it is only getting worse out there for people who want to keep their systems protected.

Where a good antivirus program used to be enough, it's not anymore.  Certain types of malware are getting through antivirus-centric software, and malware should now be considered to be a separate threat from viruses, as there are just too many of them being created and released for one antivirus team to keep up with.

Contacting computer repair Chico Ca will get you free consultation on this matter!

You need software like SuperAntiSpyware along with software like Avira, and the software to be configured properly, to be well protected anymore.

Block a lot of dangerous files before your protection software has to deal with it

There is a file on your Windows computer called HOSTS.  Without getting too technical, this file is the first thing that's looked at by your computer whenever you try to visit a website.  There's a few things the HOSTS file can do, but the feature I'm addressing is the fact that the HOSTS file can point a bad website into neverland, efffectively keeping your computer from even loading the website at all.  The guys over at winhelp2002 keep a HOSTS file maintained by many security professionals and users that you can download and apply to your HOSTS file.  If you need any help on how to use this file, please get computer repair Chico help via At Home Computer.

http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm