Wednesday, July 23, 2008

How to keep your system clean from Spywares, Adwares and Malwares

For Normal Net users, all the above three *wares pose serious threats. All these are called 'badwares' in general.

There are Millions of users getting affected everyday. Countering the badwares is extremely important.

General Tips to safeguard your system from Badwares:

* Organise your browsing habits. Visit only authenticated sites.
* Never download anything from anonymous sites.
* Do not open or download attachments in emails from unknown senders.
* Always use a firewall.
* Always use a virus scanner.
* Avoid using IE and start using Firefox.
* Be careful when playing online games.
* Do not accept file transfers from unknown users in Instant messengers.

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