Recommended Tools to Defeat Malicious Software

[billy786]

There a whole range of malware removal tools, but the best I've come across are

1. SpyBot Search and Destroy - http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html
2. PC Tools Spyware Doctor - http://www.pctools.com/spyware-doctor/download/
3. SuperAntiSpyware - http://www.superantispyware.com/
4. Lavasoft Ad-Aware - http://lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php

Malware is a short for malicous software:
- It can ruin your computer
- cause multiple pop up windows to keep showing
- annoy you in many ways then one
- Steal sensitive data
- change your windows hosts file, direct you to fake sites which look legitimate
- take complete remote control of your computer

Malware and spware come in many forms it can come as, trojan embeded into another file maybe a picture, a worm from p2p networks or a virus from a website you happened to visit.

The best security practices to keep safe:
- Always update your system on time, turn on windows update
- Update your web browser, use firefox instead of IE trust me its million times better and it doesn't eat up resources did i mention its much safer.
- Use a couple of spyware/malware detecting tools one tool can't fix all problems. I use spyware doctor by PC TOOLS its quite good, I also spybot search and destroy and i have antivirus installed
- Use a antivirus i would recommend Norton, Avast or kaspersky
- Use a firewall, software v hardware , for the average user zone alarm should do it, but if your extra paranoid I would suggest installing smoothwall and snort to monitor your traffic fom abnormalities.

Thanks hope you found this information useful.
billy