How to Fully Protect Your Computer Without Paying a Dime

When you first buy a computer, it comes bundled with trial anti-virus software. It is always recommended that you buy anti-virus software, or unlock your trial version before going online. McAfee and Norton are the most common pre-installed anti-virus software that comes bundled up with your new computer.

It is essential that you protect your computer with some freeware anti-virus software which, in my opinion, are just as good as the paid ones. In my experience, the freeware today are at par with the standard of protection given by paid anti-virus software. As the internet grows older, the number of threats to your computer keeps increasing. As an internet user, you should become familiar with common threats and virus strike-patterns. The number of security threats posed to your computer is potentially huge. They keep evolving and what the future holds nobody knows. Tomorrow might bring a new threat which might potentially be much more deadly than any threats we know of today. Not to worry, help is at hand; you don't need to be a security expert to deal with your security issues.

There are some common categories most of your threats can be grouped under. This is helpful so we can better protect ourselves from a gamut of security issues and not have to deal with each of them individually. These are common most vulnerabilities that you need to protect your system from.

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Let's admit it, your windows isn't exactly safe. Codes in your IE explorer, windows, and even the media players are vulnerable to attack from malicious viruses. To minimize risk you need to constantly update your windows files. You can keep the settings at automatic; this will prevent you from doing it manually every time a new update is released. This is a free feature for a windows user, and can be located on the right hand side of the lower toolbar. Beware though: if you are using a counterfeit version of windows, your security update will be denied and you will be left exposed to attacks.

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